This mild cream cleanser is made to cleanse while calming and soothing your skin.
What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
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Ingredients Side-by-side
Glycerin
Humectant
Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate
Surfactant
Water
Skin ConditioningButylene Glycol
Humectant
Polyglyceryl-10 Myristate
Skin Conditioning
Disodium Lauryl Sulfosuccinate
CleansingGlyceryl Stearate
Emollient
Citric Acid
Buffering
Niacinamide
Smoothing
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
Antimicrobial
Cnidium Officinale Root Extract
Skin ConditioningCapsicum Annuum Fruit Extract
Antimicrobial
Glycyrrhiza Glabra Leaf Extract
Skin ConditioningPaeonia Officinalis Flower Extract
TonicPeat Extract
Skin ConditioningGlycerin, Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate, Water, Butylene Glycol, Polyglyceryl-10 Myristate, Disodium Lauryl Sulfosuccinate, Glyceryl Stearate, Citric Acid, Niacinamide, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Cnidium Officinale Root Extract, Capsicum Annuum Fruit Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra Leaf Extract, Paeonia Officinalis Flower Extract, Peat Extract
Water
Skin ConditioningGlycerin
Humectant
PEG-8
HumectantSodium Cocoyl Glutamate
Cleansing
Sorbitol
Humectant
Betaine
Humectant
Ethylhexylglycerin
Skin ConditioningPotassium Cocoyl Glycinate
Surfactant
Sodium Laureth Sulfate
Cleansing
Sodium Hydroxide
BufferingPPG-7-Buteth-4
Skin ConditioningDipotassium Glycyrrhizate
Humectant
Trisodium EDTA
BHT
Antioxidant
Methylparaben
Preservative
Phenoxyethanol
Preservative
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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 GlycerinPotassium Cocoyl Glycinate is an amino acid-based surfactant and cleaning agent. This ingredient can be derived from animals or plants. It may also be synthetically created from fatty acids of the coconut and glycine.
Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate is a gentle surfactant. Surfactants help gather the dirt, oil, and other pollutants from your skin to be rinsed away. It is a mild cleanser and naturally produces foam.
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. Remember to stay hydrated!
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