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Linoleic Acid is Vitamin F and a fatty acid. It is an emollient and helps thicken texture. Linoleic acid helps with hydrating skin and nourishing the skin's barrier. The top layer of skin, or epidermis, contains high amounts of linoleic acid naturally.
Your body uses linoleic acid to build ceramides and prostaglandins. Ceramides keep your skin's barrier plump and firm. Prosaglandins help control inflammation and healing.
This makes linoleic acid effectives for reducing inflammation, hydrating skin, and firming skin. A side effect may include extra protection against UV damage and free radicals. This is due to linoleic acid strengthening the skin barrier.
Low levels of linoleic acid is also associated with acne-prone skin. By keeping sebum soft, it prevents pores from clogging.
Linoleic acid can is in common foods such as nuts, sunflower oil, corn oil, and soybean oil.
This ingredient may not be Malassezia folliculitis, or fungal-acne safe.
CHEM: 9,12-Octadecadienoic acid (9Z, 12Z)-
People also like: Niacinamide, Retinol, Ascorbic Acid
People also dislike: Stearic Acid, Lauric Acid, Niacinamide
Also known as: Lanolic Acid and Vitamin F
Linoleic Acid is a rare cosmetic ingredient, with about 1.4% of the products in our database containing it.
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Where it's used
Linoleic Acid is most often found as ingredient number 25 within an ingredient list.
These are the categories of products that use Linoleic Acid the most:
References
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocd.13469
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2230.1998.00315.x
- https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/16/3967
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943135/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5967208/#:~:text=The%20skin%20barrier%20is%20important,of%20water%20from%20the%20body.
Products with Linoleic Acid
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CosIng Data
- CosIng ID: 77323
- INCI Name: LINOLEIC ACID
- EC #: Â 200-470-9 (CIS)
- All Functions: Antistatic, Cleansing, Emollient, Hair Conditioning, Skin Conditioning, Surfactant
