What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
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Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningCitrus Aurantium Amara Flower Water
MaskingSodium Cocoyl Apple Amino Acids
Skin Conditioning
Decyl Glucoside
Cleansing
Lactobacillus/Arundinaria Gigantea Ferment Filtrate
Skin ConditioningSodium PCA
Humectant
Dicaprylyl Ether
Emollient
Glycerin
Humectant
Glyceryl Oleate
Emollient
Gluconolactone
Skin Conditioning
Glycosphingolipids
EmollientXanthan Gum
EmulsifyingSodium Benzoate
Masking
Lecithin
Emollient
Sclerotium Gum
Emulsion StabilisingPropanediol
Solvent
Pullulan
Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate
Antimicrobial
Curcuma Longa Root Extract
Masking
Water, Citrus Aurantium Amara Flower Water, Sodium Cocoyl Apple Amino Acids, Decyl Glucoside, Lactobacillus/Arundinaria Gigantea Ferment Filtrate, Sodium PCA, Dicaprylyl Ether, Glycerin, Glyceryl Oleate, Gluconolactone, Glycosphingolipids, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Benzoate, Lecithin, Sclerotium Gum, Propanediol, Pullulan, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Curcuma Longa Root Extract
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 GlycerinWater. 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!
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