What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
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Benefits
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Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningGlycerin
Humectant
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
Cleansing
Decyl Glucoside
Cleansing
Betaine
Humectant
Xanthan Gum
EmulsifyingAvena Sativa Kernel Meal
Abrasive
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract
Emollient
Agastache Mexicana Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract
Skin ConditioningPEG-14m
Emulsion StabilisingPolyquaternium-10
PEG-150 Distearate
Emulsifying
Sodium Gluconate
Skin ConditioningSodium Chloride
MaskingSodium Citrate
BufferingAscorbic Acid
Antioxidant
Citric Acid
Buffering
Benzoic Acid
Masking
Benzyl Alcohol
Perfuming
Dehydroacetic Acid
Preservative
Phenoxyethanol
Preservative
Imidazolidinyl Urea
Preservative
Xylityl Sesquicaprylate
Antimicrobial
Anhydroxylitol
Humectant
Sodium Benzoate
Masking
Potassium Sorbate
Preservative
Water, Glycerin, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Decyl Glucoside, Betaine, Xanthan Gum, Avena Sativa Kernel Meal, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Agastache Mexicana Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract, PEG-14m, Polyquaternium-10, PEG-150 Distearate, Sodium Gluconate, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Citrate, Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid, Benzoic Acid, Benzyl Alcohol, Dehydroacetic Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Imidazolidinyl Urea, Xylityl Sesquicaprylate, Anhydroxylitol, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate
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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.
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