LUX Soap Bar Versus Dove Sensitive Beauty Bar
What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
Ingredients Side-by-side
Sodium Palmate
CleansingWater
Skin ConditioningSodium Palm Kernelate
CleansingSodium Hydroxide
BufferingParfum
Masking
Lauric Acid
Cleansing
Sodium Chloride
MaskingGlycerin
Humectant
Tetrasodium EDTA
Etidronic Acid
Citric Acid
Buffering
Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate
SurfactantSodium Ascorbyl Phosphate
Antioxidant
Tocopheryl Acetate
Antioxidant
Hydroxystearic Acid
Cleansing
Stearic Acid
Cleansing
Sericin
Skin ConditioningRosa Gallica Flower Extract
AstringentJasminum Officinale Flower Extract
Masking
PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil
Emulsifying
Nelumbium Speciosum Flower Oil
Skin Conditioning
Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil
Skin Conditioning
Mentha Arvensis Leaf Oil
Masking
Cymbopogon Martini Oil
Masking
Benzyl Salicylate
Perfuming
Benzyl Alcohol
Perfuming
Coumarin
Perfuming
Limonene
Perfuming
Linalool
Perfuming
CI 74160
Cosmetic ColorantSodium Palmate, Water, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Sodium Hydroxide, Parfum, Lauric Acid, Sodium Chloride, Glycerin, Tetrasodium EDTA, Etidronic Acid, Citric Acid, Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Hydroxystearic Acid, Stearic Acid, Sericin, Rosa Gallica Flower Extract, Jasminum Officinale Flower Extract, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Nelumbium Speciosum Flower Oil, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil, Mentha Arvensis Leaf Oil, Cymbopogon Martini Oil, Benzyl Salicylate, Benzyl Alcohol, Coumarin, Limonene, Linalool, CI 74160
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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.
Learn more about GlycerinLauric Acid is a saturated fatty acid naturally found in coconut oil, palm kernel oil, and even breast milk.
In cosmetics, it is an:
Lab studies have found that lauric acid is surprisingly good at killing acne-causing bacteria. However, these tests were done on bacteria in a petri dish and not on real skin, so we can't say for certain it works the same in a formulation on a real face.
The comedogenic rating of 4 comes from the 1972 rabbit ear model using undiluted ingredients. Comedogenicity is highly individual and one comedogenic ingredient cannot predict how a formula will behave on skin.
This ingredient is not fungal acne safe and research has confirmed Malassezia can use it as a food source.
Learn more about Lauric AcidChances 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 ChlorideStearic Acid is a fatty acid that is already found in your skin. It's one of the free fatty acids that works alongside ceramides and cholesterols to maintain your barrier.
In cosmetics, it is a multitasker:
Safety-wise, the CIR Expert Panel has concluded it to be safe in cosmetics when formulated to be non-irritating and non-sensitizing.
Free stearic acid is a C18 fatty acid that the Malassezia yeast can substrate, so this ingredient may not be fungal acne safe.
Learn more about Stearic AcidTetrasodium EDTA is the salt formed from neutralizing ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid with sodium hydroxide. It is a chelating agent and used to prevent metal ions from binding to other ingredients. This helps keep the product and ingredients stable.
Tetrasodium EDTA comes as a white solid and is soluble in water.
Water. 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
