What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
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Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningNiacinamide
Smoothing
Butylene Glycol
Humectant
Propylene Glycol
Humectant
Glycerin
Humectant
Ethoxydiglycol
HumectantTerminalia Ferdinandiana Fruit Extract
Antioxidant
Sodium Lactate
Buffering
Sodium PCA
Humectant
DMDM Hydantoin
Preservative
Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
Emulsion StabilisingHydroxypropyl Methylcellulose
Emulsion StabilisingSoluble Collagen
Humectant
Tetrasodium EDTA
Sodium Hydroxide
BufferingSodium Benzoate
Masking
Triethanolamine
BufferingCitric Acid
Buffering
Potassium Sorbate
Preservative
Fructose
Humectant
Glycine
Buffering
Inositol
Humectant
Lactic Acid
Buffering
Urea
Buffering
Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate
Preservative
Hydrolyzed Caviar Extract
Skin ConditioningHydrolyzed Pearl
Skin ConditioningSodium Chloride
MaskingBenzoic Acid
Masking
Water, Niacinamide, Butylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Glycerin, Ethoxydiglycol, Terminalia Ferdinandiana Fruit Extract, Sodium Lactate, Sodium PCA, DMDM Hydantoin, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Soluble Collagen, Tetrasodium EDTA, Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Benzoate, Triethanolamine, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Fructose, Glycine, Inositol, Lactic Acid, Urea, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Hydrolyzed Caviar Extract, Hydrolyzed Pearl, Sodium Chloride, Benzoic Acid
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 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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