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Ingredients overview
Aqua, Sodium Coco-Sulfate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Decyl Glucoside, Glycerin, Lauryl Glucoside, Polysorbate 80, Parfum, Iris Florentina Root Extract, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Hexylene Glycol, Linalool, Hexyl Cinnamal, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone
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Highlights
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Key Ingredients
Skin-identical ingredient: Glycerin
Other Ingredients
Buffering: Citric Acid
Chelating: Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate
Emulsifying: Sodium Coco-Sulfate, Polysorbate 80, Hexylene Glycol
Moisturizer/humectant: Glycerin
Perfuming: Parfum, Hexylene Glycol, Linalool, Hexyl Cinnamal, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone
Preservative: Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate
Solvent: Aqua, Hexylene Glycol
Surfactant/cleansing: Sodium Coco-Sulfate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Decyl Glucoside, Lauryl Glucoside, Polysorbate 80, Hexylene Glycol
Skim through
| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua | solvent | ||
| Sodium Coco-Sulfate | surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying | ||
| Cocamidopropyl Betaine | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Decyl Glucoside | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Glycerin | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
| Lauryl Glucoside | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Polysorbate 80 | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | 0, 0 | |
| Parfum | perfuming | icky | |
| Iris Florentina Root Extract | |||
| Citric Acid | buffering | ||
| Sodium Benzoate | preservative | ||
| Potassium Sorbate | preservative | ||
| Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate | chelating | ||
| Hexylene Glycol | solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/cleansing | 0-1, 0-2 | |
| Linalool | perfuming | icky | |
| Hexyl Cinnamal | perfuming | icky | |
| Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone | perfuming | icky |
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Ingredients explainedAqua
Also-called: Water | 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.
Sodium Coco-Sulfate
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing
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.
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.
Glycerin - superstar
Also-called: Glycerol | 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 >>
Lauryl Glucoside
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing
A 100% vegetable origin, biodegradable, mild cleansing agent that givesmoderate to high amount of foam. It's happy to work together with other surfactants (in general, that helps to create milder formulas).
Polysorbate 80
What-it-does: emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
A common little helper ingredient thathelps water and oil to mixtogether, aka emulsifier.
The number at the end refers to the oil-loving part and the bigger the number the more emulsifying power it has. 20 is a weak emulsifier, rather called solubilizer used commonly in toners while 60 and 80 are more common in serums and creams.
Parfum - 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!).
Iris Florentina Root Extract
Also-called: Iris Florentina Extract
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Citric Acid
What-it-does: buffering
Citric acid comes from citrus fruits and is an AHA. If these magic three letters don’t tell you anything, click here and read our detailed description on glycolic acid, the most famous AHA.
So citric acid is an exfoliant, that can - just like other AHAs - gently lift off the dead skin cells of your skin and make it more smooth and fresh.
There is also some research showing that citric acid with regular use (think three monthsand 20% concentration) can help sun-damaged skin, increase skin thickness and some nice hydrating things called glycosaminoglycans in the skin.
But according to a comparative study done in 1995, citric acid has less skin improving magic properties than glycolic or lactic acid. Probably that’s why citric acid is usually not used as an exfoliant but more as a helper ingredient in small amounts to adjust the pH of a formulation.
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.
Potassium Sorbate
What-it-does: preservative
It's one of those things that help your cosmetics not to go wrong too soon, aka a preservative. It’s not a strong one and doesn’t really work against bacteria, but more against mold and yeast. To do that it has to break down to its active form, sorbic acid. For that to happen, there has to be water in the product and the right pH value (pH 3-4).
But even if everything is right, it’s not enough on its own. If you see potassium sorbate you should see some other preservative next to it too.
BTW, it’s also a food preservativeand even has an E number, E202.
Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate
What-it-does: chelating
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Hexylene Glycol
What-it-does: solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/cleansing | Irritancy: 0-1 | Comedogenicity: 0-2
Similar to other glycols, it's a helper ingredient used as a solvent, or to thin out thick formulas and make them more nicely spreadable.
Hexylene Glycol is also part a preservative blend namedLexgard® HPO, where it helps the effectiveness of current IT-preservative, phenoxyethanol.
Linalool - icky
What-it-does: perfuming, deodorant
Linalool is a super common fragrance ingredient. It’s kind of everywhere - both in plants and in cosmetic products. It’s part of 200 natural oils including lavender, ylang-ylang, bergamot, jasmine, geranium and it can be found in 90-95% of prestige perfumes on the market.
The problem with linalool is, that just like limoneneit oxidises on air exposure and becomes allergenic. That’s why a product containing linalool that has been opened for several months is more likely to be allergenic than a fresh one.
A study made in the UK with 483 people tested the allergic reaction to 3% oxidised linalool and 2.3% had positive test results.
Hexyl Cinnamal - icky
What-it-does: perfuming
A common fragrance ingredient that smells like jasmine. It is one of the “EU 26 fragrances” that has to be labelled separately because of allergen potential. Best to avoid if your skin is sensitive.
Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone - icky
What-it-does: perfuming
It’s a common fragrance ingredient that is one of the “EU 26 fragrances” that has to be labelled separately (and cannot be simply included in the term “fragrance/perfume” on the label) because of allergen potential. Best to avoid if your skin is sensitive.
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