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Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water With Vitamin C Versus Garnier Skinactive Micellar Cleansing Water All-In-1 Waterproof Makeup Remover

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Makeup Remover
French Brand France
French Brand France

Updated on January 23, 2025

Overview

What they are

These products are both vegan, cruelty-free, fungal acne (malassezia) safe, and reef safe makeup removers. They have a total of 3 ingredients in common

Free From

They both do not contain any harsh alcohols, common allergens, fragrances, oils, parabens or sulfates

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Ingredient Info

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What's inside (and what isn't)

What's inside (and what isn't)

At a glance

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Key Ingredients

Benefits

Concerns

Ingredients Explained

These ingredients are found in both products.

Ingredients higher up in an ingredient list are typically present in a larger amount.

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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Emulsifying, Skin Conditioning, Solvent

Hexylene Glycol is a surfactant. Glycols are a class of alcohols. Hexylene Glycol is a surfactant and emulsifier.

As a surfactant, Hexylene Glycol helps gather dirt and oil on your skin to be washed away.

As an emulsifier, Hexylene Glycol helps keep water and oil together. This prevents them from separating in a product. Hexylene Glycol also thins out the texture of a product by lessening viscosity.

Hexylene Glycol has a small molecular weight.

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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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When to use

707 Routines
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65% use in pm
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79% use in pm
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Reviews

Here's what our community thinks

Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water With Vitamin C 9 ingredients

3.2 /5
from 9 ratings
Great Value (8) Works Well (5) Light (5)
kismet1's avatar

Kismet

8 months ago
Review

As a makeup remover it does it's job and it is cheep too but that's about it.

The instructions say that after using it you don't have to rinse it off but it leaves this weird sticky but dry feeling to your skin after usage.

I also clense after I use micellar water so I end up rinsing off the vitamin C. So what is the point off getting sth fancy when normal micellar water works just as fine Show more

#great value
#drying
#sticky
BubbIes's avatar

BubbIes

1 year ago
Review

Garnier, why is literally the second ingredient acne causing... why? It's micellar water, how did you mess this up?

#great value
#irritating
#light

Garnier Skinactive Micellar Cleansing Water All-In-1 Waterproof Makeup Remover 10 ingredients

3.5 /5
from 10 ratings
Great Value (6) Oily (4) No Scent (4)
LiviePie's avatar

LiviePie

3 years ago
Review

Takes off waterproof mascara
It takes off waterproof mascara perfectly but I'm sad to find out its not cruelty-free (or vegan for that matter)

fawns's avatar

🐾

9 months ago
Review

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- π—…π–Ύπ–Ίπ—π–Ύπ—Œ 𝖻𝖾𝗁𝗂𝗇𝖽 𝖺 π—ˆπ—‚π—…π—’ π—‹π–Ύπ—Œπ—‚π–½π—Žπ–Ύ π—Œπ—ˆ 𝖨 π–Ίπ—…π—π–Ίπ—’π—Œ π—Žπ—Œπ–Ύ 𝖺 π–Όπ—…π–Ύπ–Ίπ—‡π—Œπ–Ύπ—‹ 𝖺𝖿𝗍𝖾𝗋

#great value
#oily