What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningGlycerin
Humectant
Cetearyl Alcohol
Emollient
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
Masking
Glyceryl Stearate
Emollient
Ethylhexyl Cocoate
Emollient
Hydrogenated Coco-Glycerides
Emollient
Octyldodecanol
Emollient
Sodium Lactate
Buffering
Glyceryl Stearate Se
Emulsifying
Distarch Phosphate
AbsorbentSorbitan Stearate
Emulsifying
Dimethicone
Emollient
Phenoxyethanol
Preservative
Arginine Hcl
Skin ConditioningGlycine
Buffering
Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil
Emollient
Sodium PCA
Humectant
Lactic Acid
Buffering
Sodium Chloride
MaskingCarbomer
Emulsion StabilisingSodium Cetearyl Sulfate
Cleansing
Carnitine
Cleansing
Cholesterol
Emollient
Alanine
Masking
Ceramide NP
Skin Conditioning
Water, Glycerin, Cetearyl Alcohol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Glyceryl Stearate, Ethylhexyl Cocoate, Hydrogenated Coco-Glycerides, Octyldodecanol, Sodium Lactate, Glyceryl Stearate Se, Distarch Phosphate, Sorbitan Stearate, Dimethicone, Phenoxyethanol, Arginine Hcl, Glycine, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil, Sodium PCA, Lactic Acid, Sodium Chloride, Carbomer, Sodium Cetearyl Sulfate, Carnitine, Cholesterol, Alanine, Ceramide NP
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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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