What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
Ingredients Side-by-side
Sodium Palm Kernelate
CleansingSodium Palmate
CleansingWater
Skin ConditioningPotassium Palm Kernelate
CleansingPalm Kernel Acid
CleansingPotassium Palmate
Cocos Nucifera Oil
Masking
Theobroma Cacao Seed Butter
Emollient
Butyrospermum Parkii Butter
Skin Conditioning
Adansonia Digitata Seed Oil
Emollient
Glycerin
Humectant
Theobroma Cacao Seed Powder
Abrasive
Plantago Major Leaf Extract
Skin ConditioningPsidium Guajava Leaf Extract
AstringentTocopheryl Acetate
Antioxidant
Glycine Soja Oil
Emollient
Sodium Gluconate
Skin ConditioningPalm Acid
Cleansing
Sodium Chloride
MaskingPotassium Carbonate
BufferingParfum
Masking
Coumarin
Perfuming
Sodium Palm Kernelate, Sodium Palmate, Water, Potassium Palm Kernelate, Palm Kernel Acid, Potassium Palmate, Cocos Nucifera Oil, Theobroma Cacao Seed Butter, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Adansonia Digitata Seed Oil, Glycerin, Theobroma Cacao Seed Powder, Plantago Major Leaf Extract, Psidium Guajava Leaf Extract, Tocopheryl Acetate, Glycine Soja Oil, Sodium Gluconate, Palm Acid, Sodium Chloride, Potassium Carbonate, Parfum, Coumarin
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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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