What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
No key ingredients
Benefits
Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningGlycerin
Humectant
Propanediol
Solvent
Dimethicone
Emollient
Betaine
Humectant
Proline
Skin Conditioning
Threonine
Glycine
Buffering
Arginine
Masking
Serine
Masking
Alanine
Masking
Lysine Hcl
Skin Conditioning
PCA
Humectant
Sodium PCA
Humectant
Glutamic Acid
Humectant
Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer
Skin Conditioning
Sodium Lactate
Buffering
Sodium Phytate
Carbomer
Emulsion StabilisingHydrogenated Polydecene
EmollientTrideceth-6
EmulsifyingSodium Polyacrylate
Absorbent
Tocopherol
Antioxidant
Ethylhexylglycerin
Skin ConditioningPhenoxyethanol
Preservative
Water, Glycerin, Propanediol, Dimethicone, Betaine, Proline, Threonine, Glycine, Arginine, Serine, Alanine, Lysine Hcl, PCA, Sodium PCA, Glutamic Acid, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Sodium Lactate, Sodium Phytate, Carbomer, Hydrogenated Polydecene, Trideceth-6, Sodium Polyacrylate, Tocopherol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol
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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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