What's inside
What's inside
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Ingredients Side-by-side
Potassium Hydroxide
BufferingGlycerin
Humectant
Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil
Antioxidant
Chamomilla Recutita Extract
Skin Conditioning
Hydrastis Canadensis Extract
MaskingHedychium Coronarium Root Extract
MaskingFucus Vesiculosus Extract
Emollient
Cymbopogon Martini Oil
Masking
Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Oil
Masking
Lavandula Angustifolia Oil
Masking
Matricaria Recutita Flower Oil
Perfuming
Calendula Officinalis Flower Oil
Masking
Callitris Intratropica Wood Oil
Masking
Potassium Hydroxide, Glycerin, Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil, Chamomilla Recutita Extract, Hydrastis Canadensis Extract, Hedychium Coronarium Root Extract, Fucus Vesiculosus Extract, Cymbopogon Martini Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Oil, Lavandula Angustifolia Oil, Matricaria Recutita Flower Oil, Calendula Officinalis Flower Oil, Callitris Intratropica Wood Oil
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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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