This mild cream cleanser is made to cleanse while respecting your skin barrier.
What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
Ingredients Side-by-side
Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate
Cleansing
Cetyl Alcohol
Emollient
Stearic Acid
Cleansing
PEG-90
HumectantLauroyl/Myristoyl Methyl Glucamide
EmollientDisodium Cocoyl Glutamate
Cleansing
Butyrospermum Parkii Butter
Skin Conditioning
Niacinamide
Smoothing
Betaine
Humectant
Saccharide Isomerate
Humectant
Avena Sativa Kernel Flour
Abrasive
Glycerin
Humectant
Polyquaternium-39
Polyglyceryl-3 Laurate
EmulsifyingPhenoxyethanol
Preservative
Ethylhexylglycerin
Skin ConditioningSodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearic Acid, PEG-90, Lauroyl/Myristoyl Methyl Glucamide, Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Niacinamide, Betaine, Saccharide Isomerate, Avena Sativa Kernel Flour, Glycerin, Polyquaternium-39, Polyglyceryl-3 Laurate, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin
Sodium Lauroyl Isethionate
CleansingStearic Acid
Cleansing
Sodium Palmitate
CleansingWater
Skin ConditioningLauric Acid
Cleansing
Sodium Isethionate
CleansingSodium Stearate
CleansingCocamidopropyl Betaine
Cleansing
Sodium Palm Kernelate
CleansingGlycerin
Humectant
Sodium Chloride
MaskingZinc Oxide
Cosmetic Colorant
Tetrasodium EDTA
Tetrasodium Etidronate
Emulsion StabilisingAlumina
Abrasive
CI 77891
Cosmetic Colorant
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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 GlycerinStearic Acid is a fatty acid that is already found in your skin. It's one of the free fatty acids that works alongside ceramides and cholesterols to maintain your barrier.
In cosmetics, it is a multitasker:
Safety-wise, the CIR Expert Panel has concluded it to be safe in cosmetics when formulated to be non-irritating and non-sensitizing.
Free stearic acid is a C18 fatty acid that the Malassezia yeast can substrate, so this ingredient may not be fungal acne safe.
Learn more about Stearic Acid
