Glysolid Hautbalsam Versus Nivea Crème
This barrier-repair moisturizer is formulated around Petrolatum and Panthenol to strengthen the skin barrier and hydrate skin.
What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
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Benefits
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Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningParaffinum Liquidum
Emollient
Petrolatum
Emollient
Glycerin
Humectant
Microcrystalline Wax
Emulsion StabilisingLanolin Alcohol
Emollient
Paraffin
Skin Conditioning
Magnesium Sulfate
Decyl Oleate
Emollient
Octyldodecanol
Emollient
Aluminum Stearates
EmollientParfum
Masking
Panthenol
Skin Conditioning
Citric Acid
Buffering
Magnesium Stearate
Cosmetic ColorantSodium Anisate
Antimicrobial
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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.
Decyl Oleate is a lightweight emollient ester made by joining decyl alcohol and oleic acid. It feels silky, spreads easily, and helps dissolve pigments.
The Cosmetic Ingredient Review looked at it in 1982 and again in 2015 and concluded both times that it is safe as used when formulated to be non-irritating.
Reported use levels range from 0.1% or less to over 50% depending on the product type.
Irritation and allergy risk is also low: undiluted single applications caused little or no irritation in rabbit skin and eye tests, it was not a sensitizer in guinea pigs at 15%, and repeat insult patch tests at 1-5% showed no sensitization.
This ingredient does have a comedogenic rating of 3 from Fulton's rabbit ear assay. Keep in mind that rabbit ear models tend to overstate what happens on human skin and finished products behave differently than raw ingredients.
As for fungal acne, this ingredient has supposed the growth of Malassezia furfur and sympodialis (but not M. globosa or M. restricta) in direct testing.
Learn more about Decyl OleateGlycerin (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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