What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningVitis Vinifera Seed Oil
Emollient
Cetyl Alcohol
Emollient
Camellia Kissi Seed Oil
Emollient
Ceteareth-20
CleansingDicaprylyl Carbonate
EmollientCetearyl Olivate
Glycerin
Humectant
Sorbitan Olivate
Emulsifying
Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate
Absorbent
Rosa Canina Fruit Oil
Emollient
Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil
Emollient
Levulinic Acid
Perfuming
Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Extract
Emulsion Stabilising
Xanthan Gum
EmulsifyingSodium Benzoate
Masking
Sodium Levulinate
Skin ConditioningTocopherol
Antioxidant
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice
Skin Conditioning
Sodium Gluconate
Skin ConditioningPotassium Sorbate
Preservative
Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Oil
Masking
Citrus Nobilis Peel Oil
Masking
Myristyl Alcohol
Emollient
Stearyl Alcohol
Emollient
Glycine Soja Oil
Emollient
Myrocarpus Fastigiatus Oil
Masking
Chamomilla Recutita Flower Oil
Masking
Potassium Hydroxide
BufferingBixa Orellana Seed Oil
Emollient
Geraniol
Perfuming
Limonene
Perfuming
Citronellol
Perfuming
Linalool
Perfuming
Citral
Perfuming
Water, Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Cetyl Alcohol, Camellia Kissi Seed Oil, Ceteareth-20, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Cetearyl Olivate, Glycerin, Sorbitan Olivate, Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate, Rosa Canina Fruit Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil, Levulinic Acid, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Extract, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Levulinate, Tocopherol, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Sodium Gluconate, Potassium Sorbate, Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Oil, Citrus Nobilis Peel Oil, Myristyl Alcohol, Stearyl Alcohol, Glycine Soja Oil, Myrocarpus Fastigiatus Oil, Chamomilla Recutita Flower Oil, Potassium Hydroxide, Bixa Orellana Seed Oil, Geraniol, Limonene, Citronellol, Linalool, Citral
Water
Skin ConditioningGlycolic Acid
Buffering
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice
Skin Conditioning
Potassium Hydroxide
BufferingCetyl Alcohol
Emollient
Cyclomethicone
Emollient
Ethylhexyl Palmitate
Emollient
Sorbitol
Humectant
Ceteth-20
CleansingStearic Acid
Cleansing
PEG-100 Stearate
Glyceryl Stearate
Emollient
Stearyl Heptanoate
Emollient
Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil
Skin Conditioning
Glycerin
Humectant
Phenoxyethanol
Preservative
Polysorbate 20
Emulsifying
Dimethicone
Emollient
Hyaluronic Acid
Humectant
Hydrolyzed Collagen
Emollient
Tocopheryl Acetate
Antioxidant
Menthol
Masking
Piroctone Olamine
Preservative
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
Antimicrobial
Water, Glycolic Acid, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Potassium Hydroxide, Cetyl Alcohol, Cyclomethicone, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Sorbitol, Ceteth-20, Stearic Acid, PEG-100 Stearate, Glyceryl Stearate, Stearyl Heptanoate, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil, Glycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Polysorbate 20, Dimethicone, Hyaluronic Acid, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Tocopheryl Acetate, Menthol, Piroctone Olamine, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
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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.
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice comes from leaves of the aloe plant. Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice is best known for helping to soothe sunburns. It is also anti-inflammatory, moisturizing, antiseptic, and can help heal wounds.
Aloe is packed with good stuff including Vitamins A, C, and E. These vitamins are antioxidants, which help fight free-radicals and the damage they may cause. Free-radicals are molecules that may damage your skin cells, such as pollution.
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice also contains sugars. These sugars come in the form of monosaccharides and polysaccharides, folic acid, and choline. These sugars are able to help bind moisture to skin.
It also contains minerals such as calcium, 12 anthraquinones, fatty acids, amino acids, and Vitamin B12.
Learn more about Aloe Barbadensis Leaf JuiceCetyl Alcohol is a fatty alcohol. Fatty Alcohols are most often used as an emollient or to thicken a product.
Its main roles are:
Though it has "alcohol" in the name, it is not related to denatured alcohol or ethyl alcohol.
The FDA allows products labeled "alcohol-free" to have fatty alcohols.
Learn more about Cetyl AlcoholGlycerin (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 hydroxide is commonly known as caustic potash. It is used to fix the pH of a product or as a cleaning agent in soap. In cleansers, it is used for the saponification of oils.
Sapnification is the process of creating fatty acid metal salts from triglycerides and a strong base. During this process, Potassium Hydroxide is used up and is not present in the final product.
Using high concentrations of Potassium Hydroxide have shown to irritate the skin.
Learn more about Potassium HydroxideWater. 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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