What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
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Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningVitis Vinifera Fruit Water
Skin ConditioningGlycerin
Humectant
Triheptanoin
Skin ConditioningPolyglyceryl-3 Distearate
Emulsifying
Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil
Emollient
Squalane
Emollient
Myristyl Myristate
Emollient
Pentylene Glycol
Skin Conditioning
Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil
Emollient
Glyceryl Stearate
Emollient
Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
Emulsion StabilisingSilica
Abrasive
Palmitoyl Grape Seed Extract
Skin ConditioningC15-19 Alkane
SolventPotassium Cetyl Phosphate
EmulsifyingGlyceryl Stearate Citrate
Emollient
Vitis Vinifera Juice
Antioxidant
Centella Asiatica Extract
Cleansing
Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil
Emollient
Polyglyceryl-6 Laurate
Emulsifying
Tocopherol
Antioxidant
Sodium Dehydroacetate
Preservative
Polyglycerin-6
HumectantSodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan
CleansingSorbitan Oleate
Emulsifying
Citric Acid
Buffering
Sorbitan Isostearate
Emulsifying
Sodium Phytate
Sodium Benzoate
Masking
Potassium Sorbate
Preservative
Parfum
Masking
Water, Vitis Vinifera Fruit Water, Glycerin, Triheptanoin, Polyglyceryl-3 Distearate, Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil, Squalane, Myristyl Myristate, Pentylene Glycol, Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Silica, Palmitoyl Grape Seed Extract, C15-19 Alkane, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Glyceryl Stearate Citrate, Vitis Vinifera Juice, Centella Asiatica Extract, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil, Polyglyceryl-6 Laurate, Tocopherol, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Polyglycerin-6, Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan, Sorbitan Oleate, Citric Acid, Sorbitan Isostearate, Sodium Phytate, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Parfum
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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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