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Acure Dry Shampoo

Name: Dry Shampoo
Brand: Acure

Dry shampoo with 6 ingredients that contains exfoliants

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Ingredients List

Zea Mays Starch

Absorbent

Maranta Arundinacea Root Powder

Skin Conditioning

Theobroma Cacao Seed Powder

Abrasive

Sodium Bicarbonate

Abrasive

Rosmarinus Officinalis Extract

Antimicrobial

Mentha Piperita Oil

Masking

Zea Mays Starch, Maranta Arundinacea Root Powder, Theobroma Cacao Seed Powder, Sodium Bicarbonate, Rosmarinus Officinalis Extract, Mentha Piperita Oil

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Ingredients Explained

Zea Mays Starch

Absorbent, Skin Protecting

Zea Mays Starch is starch made from corn. You might know this as cornstarch . It is used to thicken a product. It can replace talc as an absorbent.

The pH of cornstarch is 5.92.

Cornstarch is a common food ingredient used to thicken soups or to make corn syrup.

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Maranta Arundinacea Root Powder

Skin Conditioning

We don't have a description for Maranta Arundinacea Root Powder yet.

Theobroma Cacao Seed Powder

Abrasive

Theobroma Cacao Seed Powder comes from the Theobroma cacoa, or Cacao tree. Cacao trees are native to tropical landscapes.

As an abrasive, it helps wear away the surface of skin.

Sodium Bicarbonate

Abrasive, Buffering, Skin Protecting

Sodium Bicarbonate has a more famous name: Baking soda.

In cosmetics, it is used to adjust the acidity. Due to its white crystalline solid form, it can also be an abrasive (exfoliator).

This ingredient is water-soluble.

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Rosmarinus Officinalis Extract

Antimicrobial, Refreshing, Tonic

Rosemary extract has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, and astringent properties.

This ingredient has a natural fragrance due its small component of rosemary oil. The antioxidant properties from its rosmarinic acid, flavone, and phenolic acids.

Mentha Piperita Oil

Masking, Perfuming, Refreshing

This essential oil is steam-distilled from peppermint leaves, also known as peppermint oil. It's mainly used for scent in skincare but also provides that signature "cooling" sensation.

Peppermint oil is a "feels amazing" ingredient until it doesn't.

At higher doses or for those with sensitive skin, methol-type cooling can quickly turn into burning/irritation. It can also trigger irritant dermatitis or even allergic contact dermatitis. In a large patch-test dataset, peppermint oil had a low but positive rate for this.

In cosmetics, Cosmetic Safety Reviews (CIR) concludes that peppermint oil is safe to use when formulated to be non-sensitizing with some restrictions; for instance, pulegone, a naturally occurring component of peppermint oil, should not exceed 1%.

Since peppermint oil contains fragrance allergens such as limonene, linalool, and menthol, it can be sensitizing for those with rosacea, eczema, a broken skin barrier, or just sensitive skin in general.

In Japan, this ingredient is known as Hakka Yu.

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