What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningCaprylic/Capric Triglyceride
Masking
Glycerin
Humectant
Oryza Sativa Starch
AbsorbentGlycolic Acid
Buffering
Behenyl Alcohol
Emollient
Cetearyl Alcohol
Emollient
Arachidyl Alcohol
Emollient
Glyceryl Stearate
Emollient
Sodium Hydroxide
BufferingArachidyl Glucoside
EmulsifyingBisabolol
Antioxidant
Cetearyl Glucoside
Emulsifying
Parfum
Masking
Glyceryl Laurate
Emollient
Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil
Emollient
Myrtus Communis Leaf Extract
Perfuming
Pentylene Glycol
Skin Conditioning
Sodium Benzoate
Masking
Sodium Chloride
MaskingStearyl Glycyrrhetinate
Skin ConditioningTocopherol
Antioxidant
Tripterygium Wilfordii Callus Extract
Skin ConditioningXanthan Gum
EmulsifyingWater, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Glycerin, Oryza Sativa Starch, Glycolic Acid, Behenyl Alcohol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Arachidyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Sodium Hydroxide, Arachidyl Glucoside, Bisabolol, Cetearyl Glucoside, Parfum, Glyceryl Laurate, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil, Myrtus Communis Leaf Extract, Pentylene Glycol, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Chloride, Stearyl Glycyrrhetinate, Tocopherol, Tripterygium Wilfordii Callus Extract, Xanthan Gum
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Ingredients Explained
These ingredients are found in both products.
Ingredients higher up in an ingredient list are typically present in a larger amount.
Glycerin (or glycerol) is a compound naturally found in your skin. It's a powerhouse humectant that pulls water into the stratum corneum.
Topically, glycerin does several things at once:
Your skin makes glycerin on its own (mostly from sebaceous oil breakdown) and shuttles it to your outermost layer of skin, or your epidermis, via aquaporin-3.
Aquaporin-3 is a transporter that is essential for normal skin hydration, elasticity, and repair. Interestingly, mice lacking in AQP3 have dry and less elastic skin that can be fully corrected with glycerin.
This ingredient is non-irritating, plays well with almost every ingredient, and works across all skin types. Typical use is anywhere between 3-10% but can go up to 79% in some leave-on products.
Just know very high concentrations (>40%) can feel tacky in low humidity.
Glycerin is the name for this ingredient in American English. British English uses Glycerol/Glycerine.
Learn more about GlycerinWater. It's the most common cosmetic ingredient of all. You'll usually see it at the top of ingredient lists, meaning that it makes up the largest part of the product.
So why is it so popular? Water most often acts as a solvent - this means that it helps dissolve other ingredients into the formulation.
You'll also recognize water as that liquid we all need to stay alive. If you see this, drink a glass of water. Remember to stay hydrated!
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