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Water
Skin ConditioningSodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate
Cleansing
Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate
CleansingAloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice
Skin Conditioning
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
Cleansing
Sodium Lauroyl Oat Amino Acids
CleansingGlycol Distearate
Emollient
PEG-150 Distearate
Emulsifying
Hamamelis Virginiana Extract
Antiseborrhoeic
Glycerin
Humectant
Lavandula Angustifolia Extract
Skin Conditioning
Salvia Officinalis Leaf Extract
CleansingMatricaria Recutita Flower Oil
Perfuming
Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Oil
Masking
Salvia Officinalis Leaf Oil
Lippia Citriodora Oil
PEG-8 Dimethicone
Emulsifying
Sodium Chloride
MaskingSodium PCA
Humectant
Cetyl Alcohol
Emollient
Citric Acid
Buffering
Benzyl Alcohol
Perfuming
Dehydroacetic Acid
Preservative
Water, Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate, Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Lauroyl Oat Amino Acids, Glycol Distearate, PEG-150 Distearate, Hamamelis Virginiana Extract, Glycerin, Lavandula Angustifolia Extract, Salvia Officinalis Leaf Extract, Matricaria Recutita Flower Oil, Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Oil, Salvia Officinalis Leaf Oil, Lippia Citriodora Oil, PEG-8 Dimethicone, Sodium Chloride, Sodium PCA, Cetyl Alcohol, Citric Acid, Benzyl Alcohol, Dehydroacetic Acid
Water
Skin ConditioningGlycerin
Humectant
Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate
CleansingGlycolic Acid 4.2%
Buffering
Cetyl Alcohol
Emollient
Stearyl Alcohol
Emollient
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice
Skin Conditioning
Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract
Masking
Chamomilla Recutita Flower Extract
Masking
Ascorbic Acid
Antioxidant
Retinyl Acetate
Skin Conditioning
Tocopheryl Acetate
Antioxidant
Ceteareth-20
CleansingCeteth-2
EmulsifyingParfum
Masking
DMDM Hydantoin
Preservative
Sodium Hydroxide
BufferingIodopropynyl Butylcarbamate
Preservative
Limonene
Perfuming
Water, Glycerin, Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate, Glycolic Acid 4.2%, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearyl Alcohol, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract, Chamomilla Recutita Flower Extract, Ascorbic Acid, Retinyl Acetate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Ceteareth-20, Ceteth-2, Parfum, DMDM Hydantoin, Sodium Hydroxide, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Limonene
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.
This ingredient may not be fungal acne safe. It is a primary fatty alcohol with a chain length above 12 carbons. A study from 2019 show Malassezia can feed on fatty alcohols in this range, so it may trigger fungal acne in those prone to it.
Learn more about Cetyl AlcoholDisodium Cocoamphodiacetate is a surfactant and helps cleanse skin. It is created from the fatty acids of coconut oil.
Surfactants help rinse oil, dirt, and other pollutants easily from skin. It has a faint fruit-like scent.
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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