What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningGlycerin
Humectant
Sodium Cocoyl Glycinate
Cleansing
Butylene Glycol
Humectant
Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate
Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate
Cleansing
Decyl Glucoside
Cleansing
Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate
Citric Acid
Buffering
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
Cleansing
Sodium Taurine Cocoyl Methyltaurate
Cleansing
Glyceryl Stearate Se
Emulsifying
Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate
CleansingHydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
Humectant
Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
Lactococcus/Hyaluronic Acid Ferment Filtrate
Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
Humectant
Sodium Hyaluronate
Humectant
Disodium EDTA
Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose
Emulsion StabilisingLauric Acid
Cleansing
Polyquaternium-7
Sodium Benzoate
Masking
Stearic Acid
Cleansing
Phenoxyethanol
Preservative
Water, Glycerin, Sodium Cocoyl Glycinate, Butylene Glycol, Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate, Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate, Decyl Glucoside, Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate, Citric Acid, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Taurine Cocoyl Methyltaurate, Glyceryl Stearate Se, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate, Lactococcus/Hyaluronic Acid Ferment Filtrate, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Disodium EDTA, Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Lauric Acid, Polyquaternium-7, Sodium Benzoate, Stearic Acid, Phenoxyethanol
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.
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