What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
Ingredients Side-by-side
Sodium Palmate
CleansingSodium Palm Kernelate
CleansingWater
Skin ConditioningGlycerin
Humectant
Sodium Chloride
MaskingCoconut Acid
Cleansing
Charcoal Powder
Abrasive
Methyl Salicylate
Perfuming
Mentha Viridis Leaf Oil
Astringent
Menthol
Masking
Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Oil
Masking
Sodium Gluconate
Skin ConditioningCocos Nucifera Oil
Masking
Vinegar
Butyrospermum Parkii Butter
Skin Conditioning
Pentasodium Pentetate
Tetrasodium Etidronate
Emulsion StabilisingCitric Acid
Buffering
Sodium Palmate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Water, Glycerin, Sodium Chloride, Coconut Acid, Charcoal Powder, Methyl Salicylate, Mentha Viridis Leaf Oil, Menthol, Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Oil, Sodium Gluconate, Cocos Nucifera Oil, Vinegar, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Pentasodium Pentetate, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Citric Acid
Sodium Palmate
CleansingSodium Cocoate
Cleansing
Water
Skin ConditioningGlycerin
Humectant
Charcoal Powder
Abrasive
Carbon
Cannabis Sativa Seed Oil
Emollient
Mentha Arvensis Leaf Oil
Masking
Mentha Viridis Leaf Oil
Astringent
Cinnamomum Camphora Bark Oil
Masking
Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Oil
Perfuming
Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Oil
Masking
Mentha Piperita Oil
Masking
Sodium Chloride
MaskingSodium Gluconate
Skin ConditioningTetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate
Sodium Palmate, Sodium Cocoate, Water, Glycerin, Charcoal Powder, Carbon, Cannabis Sativa Seed Oil, Mentha Arvensis Leaf Oil, Mentha Viridis Leaf Oil, Cinnamomum Camphora Bark Oil, Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Oil, Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Oil, Mentha Piperita Oil, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Gluconate, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate
Ingredients Explained
These ingredients are found in both products.
Ingredients higher up in an ingredient list are typically present in a larger amount.
Charcoal powder comes from grounded charcoal. Charcoal can originate from peat, bamboo, coal, wood, coconut shell, or petroleum.
This ingredient has absorbent properties, making it great at absorbing oil.
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 GlycerinThis ingredient is also called spearmint oil. It contains carvone (41-79%), limonene (10-22%), and small amounts of other monoterpenes depending on where it's grown.
In cosmetics, this ingredient mostly acts as a fragrancing/masking ingredient and mild astringent.
Lab studies show carvone to have antioxidant and antimicrobial activity, but it is a recognized fragrance allergen. Carvone is a mild skin sensitizer while limonene is a well-known one.
In a 21-year retrospective from a Swedish patch test clinic, 3.5% of patients tested positive for sensitive towards carvone.
Learn more about Mentha Viridis Leaf OilRosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Oil is oil expressed from the leaves of the rosemary plant.
Rosemary Leaf Oil is a fragrance and helps give your product a scent. If you are sensitive to irritating fragrances, this one contains camphor. Camphor has been found to irritate skin.
This oil also contains antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. As an antioxidant, it may protect you skin against damage. This can help slow down the signs of aging.
Learn more about Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf OilChances 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.
You might see people debate whether Sodium Chloride is comedogenic, but there actually haven't been any comedogenic tests done on it. Either way, the overall formulation of a product matters a lot more than any single ingredient.
You might see this ingredient used in scrubs as a primary exfoliating ingredient.
Learn more about Sodium ChlorideThis is the synthetic salt of gluconic acid, a form of PHA and mild exfoliant.
It is mainly used to stabilize oil and butter formulations from going bad. Sodium gluconate is a humectant, pH regulator, and chelating agent.
Chelating agents help neutralize unwanted metals from affecting the formulation.
Sodium gluconate is water-soluble.
Learn more about Sodium GluconateSodium Palmate is a surfactant and used to saponify fatty acids. It can be derived from palm oil or synthetically created.
As a surfactant, it helps lift dirt and oil off the skin to be cleansed.
Sodium Palmate is also used during the soap-making process to saponify fatty acids. This helps soap creates bubbles without leaving residue on the skin.
This ingredient is sometimes called saponified palm oil.
Learn more about Sodium PalmateWater. 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!
Learn more about Water
