St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Face Scrub Green Tea Versus Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Daily Scrub

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Here's our complete breakdown comparing the ingredients, attributes, and more of St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Face Scrub Green Tea versus Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Daily Scrub .

Published on July 02, 2021

Overview

What they are

These products are both reef safe . They have a total of 5 ingredients in common

Cool Features

They both contain BHA and exfoliants

Suited For

They're both likely to be good for fighting acne, brightening skin, oily skin, reducing pores and scar healing

Free From

They both do not contain any harsh alcohols, common allergens, oils, parabens, silicones or sulfates

What's Inside

They both contain fragrances

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St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Face Scrub Green Tea

Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Daily Scrub

Exfoliator British Brand United Kingdom

Face Cleanser American Brand United States

Exfoliator

Exfoliators are used to exfoliate the skin, or remove dead skin cells from the skin. Exfoliators may be chemical or physical.

Face cleansers are used to remove makeup, dead skin cells, pollutants, oil, dirt, and/or clean out pores on the skin. Face cleansers may specialize in having one function (exa. just removing makeup) or may have multiple functions (exa. Removing makeup and cleaning pores).

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Ingredient Info

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St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Face Scrub Green Tea 24 ingredients

Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Daily Scrub 21 ingredients

alcohol-free

silicon-free

fragrance-free

sulfate-free

paraben-free

oil-free

fungal-acne safe

reef-safe

eu-allergen-free

vegan

cruelty-free

alcohol-free

silicon-free

fragrance-free

sulfate-free

paraben-free

oil-free

fungal-acne safe

reef-safe

eu-allergen-free

vegan

cruelty-free

At a glance

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St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Face Scrub Green Tea 24 ingredients

Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Daily Scrub 21 ingredients

Notable Ingredients

BHA

Exfoliators (2)

Benefits

Hydrating

Good For Oily Skin

Reduces Large Pores

Scar Healing

Acne Fighting

Brightening (2)

Concerns

Drying

May Worsen Oily Skin (3)

Acne Trigger (2)

Irritating

Rosacea (2)

Eczema (4)

Notable Ingredients

BHA

Exfoliators

Benefits

Good For Oily Skin

Redness Reducing

Reduces Irritation (4)

Reduces Large Pores

Scar Healing

Acne Fighting

Brightening

Concerns

Drying

Irritating

Rosacea (2)

Eczema (3)

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Ingredients Compared

Ingredients that are highlighted in purple are present in both products.

St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Face Scrub Green Tea 24 ingredients

Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Daily Scrub 21 ingredients

Salicylic Acid 2% • Water • Juglans Regia Shell Powder • Glycol Stearate Se • Glycerin • Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate • Zea Mays Kernel Meal • Cocamidopropyl Betaine • Cetearyl Alcohol • Triethanolamine • Cetyl Alcohol • Glyceryl Stearate • Peg-100 Stearate • Prunus Armeniaca Fruit Extract • Cetyl Acetate • Ceteareth-20 • Carbomer • Polysorbate 60 • Acetylated Lanolin Alcohol • Parfum • Ppg-2 Methyl Ether • Phenethyl Alcohol • Methylisothiazolinone • CI 77891

Water • Cetyl Alcohol • Ppg-15 Stearyl Ether • Polyethylene • Cera Microcristallina • Steareth-21 • Salicylic Acid • Polysorbate 60 • Panthenol • Chamomilla Recutita Extract • Aloe Barbadensis Leaf • Bisabolol • Jojoba Esters • Potassium Cetyl Phosphate • Propylene Glycol • Glucose • Butylene Glycol • Xanthan Gum • Menthyl Lactate • BHA • Parfum

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Ingredients Explained

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Salicylic Acid

What it does: Masking, Preservative, Skin Conditioning

Community Rating: Liked

Salicylic Acid (also known as beta hydroxy acid or BHA) is one of the most well-known ingredients for treating skin that struggles with blackheads and acne. It helps to exfoliate both the skin's surface and pores, and also acts as an anti-inflammatory agent.

This multitasking property makes it a great ingredient for cleaning out pores, controlling oil production, and reducing inflammation.

Unlike AHAs which are water soluble, Salicylic Acid is oil soluble. This means that it's able to exfoliate the inside of pores and reduce blackheads.

Concentrations of 0.5-2% are recognized by the U.S. FDA as an over-the-counter topical acne product.

It can cause irritation and/or dryness if one's skin already has a compromised moisture barrier, so it's best to focus on repairing that before introducing a Salicylic Acid into your routine.

In general, Salicylic Acid is a great ingredient for oily acne-prone skin.

While salicylic acid does not increase sun-sensitivity, we still recommend wearing SPF.

If you are looking for the ingredient called BHA or Butylated Hydroxyanisole, click here.

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St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Face Scrub Green Tea contains this as ingredient number 1.

Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Daily Scrub contains this as ingredient number 7.

Water

What it does: Skin Conditioning, Solvent

Community Rating: Loved

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. Talk about multi-purpose! If you see this, drink a glass of water. Stay hydrated!

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St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Face Scrub Green Tea contains this as ingredient number 2.

Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Daily Scrub contains this as ingredient number 1.

Cetyl Alcohol

What it does: Emollient, Emulsifying, Emulsion Stabilising, Masking

Community Rating: Very Disliked

Cetyl Alcohol is a fatty alcohol. Fatty Alcohols are most often used as an emollient or to thicken a product.

Cetyl Alcohol is not related to SD alcohol, denatured alcohol, or ethyl alcohol. The FDA allows products labeled "alcohol-free" to have fatty alcohols.

Its main roles are:

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St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Face Scrub Green Tea contains this as ingredient number 11.

Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Daily Scrub contains this as ingredient number 2.

Polysorbate 60

What it does: Emulsifying

Community Rating: Very Disliked

Polysorbate 60 is used to help stabilize products. It is a surfactant and emulsifier. These properties help keep ingredients together in a product. Surfactants help reduce surface tension between ingredients with different states, such as liquids and solids. Emulsifiers help prevent oils and waters from separating.

Polysorbate 60 is sorbitol-based and created from the ethoxylation of sorbitan. Ethoxylation is a chemical reaction used to add ethylene oxide. Sorbitan is a the dehydrated version of sorbitol, a sugar found in fruits.

In this case, the 60 comes from reacting 60 units of ethylene oxide with sorbitan.

Polysorbates are commonly used in medicine and foods.

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St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Face Scrub Green Tea contains this as ingredient number 18.

Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Daily Scrub contains this as ingredient number 8.

Parfum

What it does: Masking, Perfuming

Community Rating: Very Disliked

Parfum is a catch-all term for an ingredient or more that is used to give aroma to products. Parfum, or fragrance, can be a blend of hundreds of chemicals or plant oils. This means every product with "fragrance" or "Parfum" in the ingredients list is a different mixture.

In the US, the alternative name for parfum is 'fragrance'. The term 'fragrance' is not regulated in many countries. In many cases, it is up to the brand to define this term.

For instance, many brands choose to label themselves as "fragrance-free" because they are not using synthetic fragrances. However, their products may still contain ingredients such as essential oils that are considered a fragrance. One example is Calendula flower extract. Essential oil ingredients still impart a scent or 'fragrance'.

Depending on the blend, it can cause allergies and sensitivities on the skin. Some ingredients that are known EU allergens include linalool and citronellol.

Products use parfum often to give products a scent or cover up smells of different ingredients.

The bottom line is: not all fragrances/parfum/ingredients are created equally. If you are worried about fragrances, we recommend taking a closer look at an ingredient. And of course, we always recommend speaking with a professional.

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St. Ives Blackhead Clearing Face Scrub Green Tea contains this as ingredient number 20.

Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Daily Scrub contains this as ingredient number 21.

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