What's inside
What's inside
Key Ingredients
Benefits
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Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Skin ConditioningSodium Cocoyl Isethionate
Cleansing
Decyl Glucoside
Cleansing
Coco-Glucoside
Cleansing
Cocos Nucifera Fruit Juice
Emollient
Persea Gratissima Oil
Skin Conditioning
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice
Skin Conditioning
Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Oil
Masking
Cymbopogon Flexuosus Oil
Masking
Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba Gum
Emulsion StabilisingOlus Oil
Emollient
Tocopherol
Antioxidant
Dicaprylyl Ether
Emollient
Sodium Gluconate
Skin ConditioningSodium Lactate
Buffering
Xanthan Gum
EmulsifyingP-Anisic Acid
Masking
Glycerin
Humectant
Levulinic Acid
Perfuming
Sodium Levulinate
Skin ConditioningCitric Acid
Buffering
Potassium Sorbate
Preservative
Sodium Benzoate
Masking
Coconut Acid
Cleansing
Sodium Isethionate
CleansingBenzoic Acid
Masking
Water, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Decyl Glucoside, Coco-Glucoside, Cocos Nucifera Fruit Juice, Persea Gratissima Oil, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Oil, Cymbopogon Flexuosus Oil, Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba Gum, Olus Oil, Tocopherol, Dicaprylyl Ether, Sodium Gluconate, Sodium Lactate, Xanthan Gum, P-Anisic Acid, Glycerin, Levulinic Acid, Sodium Levulinate, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Coconut Acid, Sodium Isethionate, Benzoic Acid
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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.
Learn more about GlycerinThis ingredient is also known as Avocado oil. It's the cold-pressed oil from the flesh of the avocado fruit packed with fatty acids (mostly oleic acid).
The rich fatty acid profile allows it to function as a skin conditioning agent and emollient; it helps soften and smooth skin while reducing water loss.
Preclinical research has found that topical avocado oil increased collagen synthesis and reduced inflammation during wound healing, giving it some skin-repairing credibility.
The unsaponifiable fraction of the oil is also interesting: studies on avocado unsaponifiables showed that it helped skin produce more collagen and other structural compounds that support healing.
The CIR Expert Panel has found this ingredient to be non-irritating in formulations.
It's a great ingredient for dry or compromised skin. Just know it may not be fungal acne safe. This is because the oleic acid content falls within the range that Malassezia can use as a food source.
Learn more about Persea Gratissima OilWater. 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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