The Green Beaver Company All-Purpose Castile Soap
A body wash with 4 ingredients.
Body wash with 4 ingredients
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Water. 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!
Learn more about WaterSulfated Coconut Oil is a coconut oil that's been reacted with sulfuric acid and then neutralized to stick sulfate groups onto the fatty acids. It's officially listed as a cleansing agent and surfactant.
The practical effect is that a normally water-hating oil becomes water-dispersible. This makes it behave like a mild anionic (negatively charged) detergent and self-emulsifier rather than like a modern foaming sulfate such as SLS.
There's no specific concentration data for this ingredient but the wider alkyl-sulfate family is reported in cosmetics at roughly 0.1-29%.
As for fungal acne, this ingredient may not be safe. It keeps coconut's C12-18 fatty acid backbone that the Malassezia yeast can potentially feed on.
A genuine allergy to this ingredient is uncommon; a double-blind patch-test study of eleven coconut-derived surfactants plus coconut oil + lauric acid found that most reactions in cocamidopropyl-betaine-allergic patients weren't reproducible and were only doubtful.
The only downside is ordinary surfactant behavior: possible dryness, stinging or eye irritation if a formula is unbalanced.
This ingredient shows up on a lot of "pore-clogging" lists but there's no real evidence behind that. It doesn't even have a comedogenic rating from an actual study; the numbers you'll find online come from blogs citing other blogs.
Ratings for other ingredients mostly come from a 1980s rabbit ear test. This test doesn't translate well to human skin or to real products because the ingredient sits at a much lower percentage.
Some people still find it breaks them out. So if that's you, definitely trust your skin.
Learn more about Sulfated Coconut OilOzonized Sunflower Seed Oil is an oil.
Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil is a plant oil derived from the seeds of a sunflower.
It is rich in fatty acids, primarily linoleic acid and oleic acid. This gives it emollient and skin conditioning properties.
The reason this ingredient is so effective is because it forms a thin film on the skin that reduces transepidermal water loss (TEWL) while supplying linoleic acid to the stratum corneum to improve barrier strength.
The high linoleic acid content is particularly noteworthy for acne-prone skin.
Research suggests that acne-prone skin tends to be deficient in linoleic acid in sebum. Topical application may help replenish this to support a healthier follicular environment and less comedone-promoting sebum.
One randomized study found sunflower seed oil preserved skin barrier integrity in adult volunteers with and without atopic dermatitis (outperforming olive oil).
This ingredient is well-studied, gentle, and an effective emollient suitable for most skin types.
On fungal acne: This ingredient may not be Fungal acne (Malassezia folliculitis) safe. This is because it contains fatty acids with carbon chain lengths in the C11-C24 range.
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