What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningGlycerin
Humectant
Tapioca Starch
Dimethicone
Emollient
Cetearyl Alcohol
Emollient
Salicylic Acid
Masking
Carnitine
Cleansing
Glycyrrhiza Inflata Root Extract
Skin Conditioning
Maris Sal
Skin ConditioningSodium Hyaluronate
Humectant
Glycyrrhiza Glabra Root Extract
Bleaching
PEG-150 Distearate
Emulsifying
Decylene Glycol
Skin ConditioningSodium Stearoyl Glutamate
CleansingAmmonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/Vp Copolymer
Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
Emulsion StabilisingXanthan Gum
EmulsifyingHydroxyethylcellulose
Emulsion StabilisingTrisodium EDTA
Phenoxyethanol
Preservative
Sodium Hydroxide
BufferingSodium Chloride
MaskingDisodium Phosphate
BufferingSodium Phosphate
BufferingParfum
Masking
Water, Glycerin, Tapioca Starch, Dimethicone, Cetearyl Alcohol, Salicylic Acid, Carnitine, Glycyrrhiza Inflata Root Extract, Maris Sal, Sodium Hyaluronate, Glycyrrhiza Glabra Root Extract, PEG-150 Distearate, Decylene Glycol, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/Vp Copolymer, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Xanthan Gum, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Trisodium EDTA, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Chloride, Disodium Phosphate, Sodium Phosphate, Parfum
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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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