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Curel Foaming Facial Wash Versus Tatcha The Rice Wash Skin-Softening Cleanser

Face Cleanser
Face Cleanser
Japanese Brand Japan
American Brand United States

Updated on April 01, 2025

Overview

What they are

These products are both face cleansers. They have a total of 7 ingredients in common

Suited For

They're both likely to be good for dry skin, brightening skin and sensitive skin

Free From

They both do not contain any common allergens, oils, silicones or sulfates

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Ingredient Info

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Benefits

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Ingredients Side-by-side

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Ingredients Explained

These ingredients are found in both products.

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Skin Conditioning, Solvent

Water. 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. Stay hydrated!

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Humectant, Skin Conditioning, Skin Protecting

Glycerin is already naturally found in your skin. It helps moisturize and protect your skin.

A study from 2016 found glycerin to be more effective as a humectant than AHAs and hyaluronic acid.

As a humectant, it helps the skin stay hydrated by pulling moisture to your skin. The low molecular weight of glycerin allows it to pull moisture into the deeper layers of your skin.

Hydrated skin improves your skin barrier; Your skin barrier helps protect against irritants and bacteria.

Glycerin has also been found to have antimicrobial and antiviral properties. Due to these properties, glycerin is often used in wound and burn treatments.

In cosmetics, glycerin is usually derived from plants such as soybean or palm. However, it can also be sourced from animals, such as tallow or animal fat.

This ingredient is organic, colorless, odorless, and non-toxic.

Glycerin is the name for this ingredient in American English. British English uses Glycerol/Glycerine.

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Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate is a gentle cleanser and surfactant. It is the sodium salt of the Cocoyl Glutamic Acid and comes from coconut oil. As a surfactant, it helps lift dirt and oil to be washed away.

Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate also has an emolliating effect and can help leave the skin feeling soft.

Skin Conditioning

Ethylhexylglycerin (we can't pronounce this either) is commonly used as a preservative and skin softener. It is derived from glyceryl.

You might see Ethylhexylglycerin often paired with other preservatives such as phenoxyethanol. Ethylhexylglycerin has been found to increase the effectiveness of these other preservatives.

Disodium EDTA plays a role in making products more stable by aiding other preservatives.

It is a chelating agent, meaning it neutralizes metal ions that may be found in a product.

Disodium EDTA is a salt of edetic acid and is found to be safe in cosmetic ingredients.

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Potassium hydroxide is commonly known as caustic potash. It is used to fix the pH of a product or as a cleaning agent in soap. In cleansers, it is used for the saponification of oils.

Sapnification is the process of creating fatty acid metal salts from triglycerides and a strong base. During this process, Potassium Hydroxide is used up and is not present in the final product.

Using high concentrations of Potassium Hydroxide have shown to irritate the skin.

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Preservative

Phenoxyethanol is a preservative that has germicide, antimicrobial, and aromatic properties. Studies show that phenoxyethanol can prevent microbial growth. By itself, it has a scent that is similar to that of a rose.

It's often used in formulations along with Caprylyl Glycol to preserve the shelf life of products.

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57% use in pm
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Reviews

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Curel Foaming Facial Wash 15 ingredients

5.0 /5
from 4 ratings
Great Value (1) Hydrating (1) No Scent (1)
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Lotus Rietveld

28 days ago
Review

Love this cleanser i am on accutane and i can use this morning and night it does not strip my skin its like a creamy consistensy and i love it

#hydrating
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JadeMcleod_6

1 year ago
Review

Cleans but doesn't strip my skin

Tatcha The Rice Wash Skin-Softening Cleanser 23 ingredients

4.1 /5
from 14 ratings
Works Well (6) Light Scent (5) Expensive (5)
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Genne

4 years ago
Review

My Mom Loves This!
She wanted me to write about how great this product is. She just recently turned 50 and she says this makes her skin feel very soft!

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brianna444

1 year ago
Review

surprising love this
I was a bit weary about this product since it contains fragrance, but the fragrance didn't bother me at all! really love the gentle exfoliating from the rice as well!