What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
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Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningBabassu Oil Glycereth-8 Esters
Emulsifying
Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate
Cleansing
Lauramidopropyl Hydroxysultaine
CleansingSodium Lauroyl Glycinate
CleansingGlycerin
Humectant
Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Extract
Morinda Citrifolia Fruit Extract
Skin ConditioningPunica Granatum Fruit Juice
MaskingGarcinia Mangostana Fruit Extract
Skin ConditioningCoffea Arabica Seed Extract
Masking
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
Antimicrobial
Lycium Barbarum Fruit Extract
Astringent
Sodium Chloride
MaskingSodium Laurate
CleansingSodium Lauroamphoacetate
CleansingStearamidoethyl Diethylamine
Phenoxyethanol
Preservative
Parfum
Masking
Ethylhexylglycerin
Skin ConditioningWater, Babassu Oil Glycereth-8 Esters, Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate, Lauramidopropyl Hydroxysultaine, Sodium Lauroyl Glycinate, Glycerin, Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Extract, Morinda Citrifolia Fruit Extract, Punica Granatum Fruit Juice, Garcinia Mangostana Fruit Extract, Coffea Arabica Seed Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Lycium Barbarum Fruit Extract, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Laurate, Sodium Lauroamphoacetate, Stearamidoethyl Diethylamine, Phenoxyethanol, Parfum, Ethylhexylglycerin
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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.
We don't have a description for Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate yet.
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 GlycerinChances are, you eat sodium chloride every day. Sodium Chloride is also known as table salt. This ingredient has many purposes in skincare: thickener, emulsifier, and exfoliator.
You'll most likely find this ingredient in cleansers where it is used to create a gel-like texture. As an emulsifier, it also prevents ingredients from separating.
You might see people debate whether Sodium Chloride is comedogenic, but there actually haven't been any comedogenic tests done on it. Either way, the overall formulation of a product matters a lot more than any single ingredient.
You might see this ingredient used in scrubs as a primary exfoliating ingredient.
Learn more about Sodium ChlorideWater. 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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