Here's our complete breakdown comparing the ingredients, attributes, and more of innisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil versus COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser .
Last updated on December 27, 2023. Published on July 23, 2021
Overview
What they are
These products are both reef safe face cleansers. They have a total of 13 ingredients in common
Cool Features
They both contain BHA
Suited For
They're both likely to be good for fighting acne, dry skin, brightening skin, oily skin, reducing pores and scar healing
Free From
They both do not contain any harsh alcohols, parabens, silicones or sulfates
What's Inside
They both contain common allergens, fragrances and oils
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Face Cleanser
Face cleansers are used to remove makeup, dead skin cells, pollutants, oil, dirt, and/or clean out pores on the skin. Face cleansers may specialize in having one function (exa. just removing makeup) or may have multiple functions (exa. Removing makeup and cleaning pores).
Face Cleanser
Face cleansers are used to remove makeup, dead skin cells, pollutants, oil, dirt, and/or clean out pores on the skin. Face cleansers may specialize in having one function (exa. just removing makeup) or may have multiple functions (exa. Removing makeup and cleaning pores).
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Ingredient Info
innisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil 24 ingredients
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser 24 ingredients
Alcohol Free
This product is free of harsh alcohols 🎉
Silicon Free
This product is free of silicons 🎉
Contains Fragrance
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Sulfate Free
This product is free of sulfates 🎉
Paraben Free
This product is free of parabens 🎉
Contains Oils
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Not Malassezia Safe
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Reef Safe
This product is free of ingredients that damage reefs 🎉
Contains EU Allergens
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Non Vegan
This product is not vegan 😥
Not Cruelty Free
This product is not cruelty-free 😥
Alcohol Free
This product is free of harsh alcohols 🎉
Silicon Free
This product is free of silicons 🎉
Sulfate Free
This product is free of sulfates 🎉
Paraben Free
This product is free of parabens 🎉
Contains Oils
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Not Malassezia Safe
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Reef Safe
This product is free of ingredients that damage reefs 🎉
Contains EU Allergens
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Non Vegan
This product is not vegan 😥
Cruelty Free
This product is cruelty-free 🎉
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innisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil 24 ingredients
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser 24 ingredients
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Ingredients that are highlighted in purple are present in both products.
innisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil 24 ingredients
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser 24 ingredients
Rosa Damascena Flower Water • Glycerin • Myristic Acid • Stearic Acid • Peg-32 • Potassium Hydroxide • Palmitic Acid • Butylene Glycol • Lauric Acid • Cocamidopropyl Betaine • Glyceryl Stearate • Peg-100 Stearate • Parfum • Torreya Nucifera Seed Oil • Sodium Chloride • Salicylic Acid • Menthol • Sodium Hydroxide • Disodium EDTA • Sodium Benzoate • Dextrin • Theobroma Cacao Extract • Rosa Centifolia Flower Extract • Lactic Acid
Water • Glycerin • Stearic Acid • Myristic Acid • Peg-32 • Potassium Hydroxide • Palmitic Acid • Lauric Acid • Glyceryl Stearate • Peg-100 Stearate • Lauramide Dea • Cocamidopropyl Betaine • Potassium Cocoate • Salicylic Acid • Sodium Chloride • Arachidic Acid • Lavandula Hybrida Oil • Linalool • Disodium EDTA • Oleic Acid • Limonene • Asiaticoside • Asiatic Acid • Madecassic Acid
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Ingredients Explained
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Glycerin is already naturally found in your skin. It helps moisturize and protect your skin.
A study from 2016 found glycerin to be more effective as a humectant than AHAs and hyaluronic acid.
As a humectant, it helps the skin stay hydrated by pulling moisture to your skin. The low molecular weight of glycerin allows it to pull moisture into the deeper layers of your skin.
Hydrated skin improves your skin barrier; Your skin barrier helps protect against irritants and bacteria.
Glycerin has also been found to have antimicrobial and antiviral properties. Due to these properties, glycerin is often used in wound and burn treatments.
In cosmetics, glycerin is usually derived from plants such as soybean or palm. However, it can also be sourced from animals, such as tallow or animal fat.
This ingredient is organic, colorless, odorless, and non-toxic.
Glycerin is the name for this ingredient in American English. British English uses Glycerol/Glycerine.
Learn more about Glycerininnisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 2.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 2.
Myristic Acid is a saturated fatty acid. It is naturally found in milk fat. Other sources include palm oil, coconut oil, and butter fat.
Myristic Acid is an emulsifer and cleanser. As an emulsifer, it stabilizes a product by preventing ingredients from separating. Myristic Acid helps clean your skin by acting as a surfactant. It tends to gather oil and dirt on your skin to be easily rinsed away.
One study from 2021 found Myristic Acid to have anti-inflammatory properties.
Learn more about Myristic Acidinnisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 3.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 4.
Stearic Acid is a fatty acid. It is an emollient, emulsifier, and texture enhancer.
As an emollient, stearic acid helps soften skin. It aids the skin's protective barrier by preventing water loss. It also provides a gentle cleansing effect without stripping away natural oils.
Stearic acid may also be used to enhance the texture of products. It can add volume and stabilize ingredients such as water and oil. This can help water and oil ingredients from separating.
Sources of stearic acid include animal or vegetable fats/oils such as coconut or shea. It can be naturally found in butter, cocoa butter, shea butter, vegetable fats, and animal tallow.
This ingredient may not be Malassezia folliculitis, or fungal-acne safe.
Learn more about Stearic Acidinnisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 4.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 3.
We don't have a description for Peg-32.
innisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 5.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 5.
Potassium 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 Hydroxideinnisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 6.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 6.
Palmitic Acid is a fatty acid found in our skin. In cosmetics, it is usually derived from palm oil. It is a cleanser, emollient, and emulsifier.
As an emollient, it helps hydrate the skin. The emulsifying properties keep ingredients together in a product.
Palmitic Acid may not be fungal-acne safe. It can worsen oily skin and cause breakouts due to its emollient nature.
Learn more about Palmitic Acidinnisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 7.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 7.
Lauric Acid is a fatty acid or lipid. About half of fatty acids in coconut oil is lauric acid.
This ingredient helps hydrate and sooth skin. As a humectant, it helps trap moisture. It also aids in cleaning and enhancing the texture of products.
Emerging studies show Lauric Acid to have antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties. The antimicrobial property helps strengthen the skin barrier by fighting off bad bacteria.
Lauric acid may not be Malassezia folliculitis, or fungal acne, safe.
Learn more about Lauric Acidinnisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 9.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 8.
Cocamidopropyl Betaine is a fatty acid created by mixing similar compounds in coconut oil and dimethylaminopropylamine. Dimethylaminopropylamine is a diamine, an amine with two amino groups.
Cocamidopropyl Betaine is a surfactant and cleanser. It helps gather the dirt, pollutants, and other impurities in your skin to be washed away. It also helps thicken a product and make the texture more creamy.
Being created from coconut oil means Cocamidopropyl Betaine is hydrating for the skin.
While Cocamidopropyl Betaine was believed to be an allergen, a study from 2012 disproved this. It found two compounds in unpure Cocamidopropyl Betaine to be the irritants: aminoamide and 3-dimethylaminopropylamine. High-grade and pure Cocamidopropyl Betaine did not induce allergic reactions during this study.
Learn more about Cocamidopropyl Betaineinnisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 10.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 12.
Glyceryl Stearate is a mix of glycerin and stearic acid.
Glyceryl Stearate is used to stabilize the mixing of water and oil ingredients. By preventing these ingredients from separating, it can help elongate shelf life. It can also help thicken the product's texture.
As an emollient, it helps soften skin and supports barrier-replenishing ingredients.
In cosmetics, Glyceryl Stearate is often made from vegetable oils or synthetically produced. The human body also creates Glyceryl Stearate naturally.
Learn more about Glyceryl Stearateinnisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 11.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 9.
Peg-100 Stearate is an emollient and emulsifier. PEGS are a hydrophilic polyether compound . There are 100 ethylene oxide monomers in Peg-100 Stearate. Peg-100 Stearate is polyethylene glycol ester of stearic acid.
Peg-100 Stearate helps keep skin soft by trapping moisture in. It helps prevent oil and water from separating in a product. By binding oil and water, it helps remove dirt and oil to be rinsed away.
innisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 12.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 10.
Chances are, you eat sodium chloride every day. Sodium Chloride is also known as table salt.
This ingredient has many purposes in skincare: thickener, emulsifier, and exfoliator.
You'll most likely find this ingredient in cleansers where it is used to create a gel-like texture. As an emulsifier, it also prevents ingredients from separating.
There is much debate on whether this ingredient is comedogenic. The short answer - comedogenic ratings don't tell the whole story. Learn more about comegodenic ratings here.
The concensus about this ingredient causing acne seems to be divided. Research is needed to understand if this ingredient does cause acne.
Scrubs may use salt as the primary exfoliating ingredient.
Learn more about Sodium Chlorideinnisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 15.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 15.
Salicylic Acid (also known as beta hydroxy acid or BHA) is one of the most well-known ingredients for treating skin that struggles with blackheads and acne. It helps to exfoliate both the skin's surface and pores, and also acts as an anti-inflammatory agent.
This multitasking property makes it a great ingredient for cleaning out pores, controlling oil production, and reducing inflammation.
Unlike AHAs which are water soluble, Salicylic Acid is oil soluble. This means that it's able to exfoliate the inside of pores and reduce blackheads.
Concentrations of 0.5-2% are recognized by the U.S. FDA as an over-the-counter topical acne product.
It can cause irritation and/or dryness if one's skin already has a compromised moisture barrier, so it's best to focus on repairing that before introducing a Salicylic Acid into your routine.
In general, Salicylic Acid is a great ingredient for oily acne-prone skin.
While salicylic acid does not increase sun-sensitivity, we still recommend wearing SPF.
If you are looking for the ingredient called BHA or Butylated Hydroxyanisole, click here.
Learn more about Salicylic Acidinnisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 16.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 14.
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.
Learn more about Disodium EDTAinnisfree Clarifying Facial Foam with Bija Seed Oil contains this as ingredient number 19.
COSRX AC Collection Calming Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 19.
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