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Ingredients overview
Water, Decyl Glucoside, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Polyacrylate-14, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Disodium Coco-Glucoside Citrate, Glycerin*, Gluconolactone, Sodium Benzoate, Fragrance, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Humulus Lupulus (Hops) Extract *Certified Organic
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Highlights
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Key Ingredients
Exfoliant: Gluconolactone
Skin-identical ingredient: Glycerin*
Soothing: Humulus Lupulus (Hops) Extract *Certified Organic
Other Ingredients
Antimicrobial/antibacterial: Humulus Lupulus (Hops) Extract *Certified Organic
Chelating: Gluconolactone
Emollient: Humulus Lupulus (Hops) Extract *Certified Organic
Emulsifying: Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Disodium Coco-Glucoside Citrate
Moisturizer/humectant: Glycerin*
Perfuming: Fragrance, Humulus Lupulus (Hops) Extract *Certified Organic
Preservative: Sodium Benzoate
Solvent: Water
Surfactant/cleansing: Decyl Glucoside, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Disodium Coco-Glucoside Citrate
Viscosity controlling: Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride
Skim through
| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water | solvent | ||
| Decyl Glucoside | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Cocamidopropyl Betaine | surfactant/cleansing, viscosity controlling | ||
| Polyacrylate-14 | |||
| Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate | emulsifying | ||
| Disodium Coco-Glucoside Citrate | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Glycerin* | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
| Gluconolactone | exfoliant, chelating | superstar | |
| Sodium Benzoate | preservative | ||
| Fragrance | perfuming | icky | |
| Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride | viscosity controlling | ||
| Humulus Lupulus (Hops) Extract *Certified Organic | soothing, antimicrobial/antibacterial, emollient, perfuming |
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Ingredients explainedWater
Also-called: Aqua | What-it-does: solvent
Good old water, aka H2O. The most common skincare ingredient of all. You can usually find it right in the very first spot of the ingredient list, meaning it’s the biggest thing out of all the stuff that makes up the product.
It’s mainly a solvent for ingredients that do not like to dissolve in oils but rather in water.
Once inside the skin, it hydrates, but not from the outside - putting pure water on the skin (hello long baths!) is drying.
One more thing: the water used in cosmetics is purified and deionized (it means that almost all of the mineral ions inside it is removed). Like this, the products can stay more stable over time.
Decyl Glucoside
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, emulsion stabilising
A vegetable origin (coconut or palm kernel oil and glucose) cleansing agent with great foaming abilities. It's also mild to the skin and readily biodegradable.
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, viscosity controlling
Super common ingredient in all kinds of cleansing products: face and body washes, shampoos and foam baths.
Number one reason for its popularity has to do with bubbles. Everyone loves bubbles. And cocamidopropyl betaine is great at stabilizing them.
The other reason is that it’s mild and works very well combined with other cleansing agents and surfactants. The art of cleansing is usually to balance between properly cleansing but not over-cleansing and cocamidopropyl betaine is helpful in pulling off this balance right.
Oh, and one more nice thing: even though it’s synthetic it’s highly biodegradable.
More info on CAPB on Collins Beaty Pages.
Polyacrylate-14
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate
What-it-does: emulsifying
A helper ingredient that's used as a co-emulsifier (meaning next to other emulsifiers in the formula it helps water and oil to mix) and as a stabilization agent for foams. Also, has some antimicrobial activity so it can help to boost the effectiveness of the preservative system.
Disodium Coco-Glucoside Citrate
What-it-does: emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing
A cleansing agent that's a combination of citric acid andcoco-glucoside. It's almost natural ("nearly natural substance" according to Ecocert standards), readily biodegradable, and very mild and non-irritating to the skin.
Glycerin* - superstar
Also-called: Glycerol;Glycerin | What-it-does: skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
- A natural moisturizer that’s also in our skin
- A super common, safe, effective and cheap molecule used for more than 50 years
- Not only a simple moisturizer but knows much more: keeps the skin lipids between our skin cells in a healthy (liquid crystal) state, protects against irritation, helps to restore barrier
- Effective from as low as 3% with even more benefits for dry skin at higher concentrations up to 20-40%
- High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry skin
Read all the geeky details about Glycerin here >>
Gluconolactone - superstar
What-it-does: exfoliant, chelating
- It’s a polyhydroxy acid (PHA), that is often referred to as next generation AHA
- It gently lifts off dead skin cells form the skin surface making skin smooth and even
- In the long term it provides anti-aging benefits, like increased skin thickness and decreased wrinkles (though a tad less than even more proven superstar AHAs)
- It’s a great moisturizer and even helps to repair impaired skin barrier
- It’s antioxidant, and does not make your skin more sensitive to the sun
- It can be used even if your skin is very sensitive, rosacea prone or if you are post cosmetic procedure
Read all the geeky details about Gluconolactone here >>
Sodium Benzoate
What-it-does: preservative
A helper ingredient that helps to makethe products stay nice longer, aka preservative. It works mainly against fungi.
It’s pH dependent and works best at acidic pH levels (3-5). It’s not strong enough to be used in itself so it’s always combined with something else, often with potassium sorbate.
Fragrance - icky
Also-called: Fragrance, Parfum;Parfum/Fragrance | What-it-does: perfuming
Exactly what it sounds: nice smelling stuff put into cosmetic products so that the end product also smells nice. Fragrance in the US and parfum in the EU is a generic term on the ingredient list that is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on average (but it can have as much as 200 components!).
If you are someone who likes to know what you put on your face then fragrance is not your best friend - there's no way to know what’s really in it.
Also, if your skin is sensitive, fragrance is again not your best friend. It’s the number one cause of contact allergy to cosmetics. It’s definitely a smart thing to avoid with sensitive skin (and fragrance of any type - natural is just as allergic as synthetic, if not worse!).
Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride
What-it-does: viscosity controlling
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Humulus Lupulus (Hops) Extract *Certified Organic
What-it-does: soothing, antimicrobial/antibacterial, emollient, perfuming, astringent
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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