It has ingredients that are good for anti aging, brightening skin, reducing pores, scar healing, dark spots and better texture

Free From

It doesn't contain any harsh alcohols, common allergens, oils, parabens or silicones

Fun facts

Uriage is from France. This product is used in 1 routines created by our community.

We independently verify ingredients and our claims are backed by peer-reviewed research. Does this product need an update? Let us know.

You should know

Here's our breakdown of the notable ingredients, benefits, and concerns we determined from the ingredients in this product. Click any item to learn more.

Notable Ingredients

AHA

Benefits

Skin Texture

Reduces Large Pores

Anti-Aging

Dark Spots

Scar Healing

Brightening

Concerns

Drying (2)

Acne Trigger

Irritating

Rosacea (2)

Eczema (2)

Ingredient Info

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alcohol-free

silicon-free

fragrance-free

sulfate-free

paraben-free

oil-free

fungal-acne safe

reef-safe

eu-allergen-free

vegan

cruelty-free

Ingredients Overview

Here's our quick-to-read summary of the ingredients in this product. Keep scrolling if you'd like to learn more about what each ingredient does!

Ingredient

Com. / Irr. Rating

Features

Skin Conditioning, Solvent

Cleansing, Emulsifying, Foaming

Cleansing, Foaming

Humectant, Masking, Skin Conditioning, Solvent

1 / 0

Cleansing, Emulsion Stabilising

Masking

Cleansing, Foaming

Cleansing, Emulsifying

Cleansing, Foaming

Cleansing, Foaming

Emollient, Emulsifying, Perfuming

Buffering, Humectant, Skin Conditioning

Emulsifying

0 / 0

Preservative

Cleansing

Cleansing, Emulsifying, Foaming

Cleansing

Masking, Preservative

Skin Conditioning, Skin Protecting

Skin Conditioning

Cleansing

Antimicrobial, Skin Conditioning

Ingredients Explained

This product contains 24 ingredients. Click on any ingredient to learn more about it

Water

What it does: Skin Conditioning, Solvent

Community Rating: Loved

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. Talk about multi-purpose! If you see this, drink a glass of water. Stay hydrated!

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Sodium Laureth Sulfate

What it does: Cleansing, Emulsifying, Foaming

Community Rating: Very Disliked

Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) is a foaming, cleansing, and emulsifying ingredient. It is created from palm kernel oil or coconut oil. SLES is not the same as sodium lauryl sulfate. It is much milder and less likely to irritate.

SLES helps create foam in personal products. It also prevents ingredients from separating, helping to elongate the shelf life.

Sodium Laureth Sulfate is a type of sulfate. It can be drying. We recommend speaking with a professional about using this ingredient if you have concerns.

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Sodium Cocoamphoacetate

What it does: Cleansing, Foaming

Community Rating: Disliked

We don't have a description for Sodium Cocoamphoacetate.

Butylene Glycol

What it does: Humectant, Masking, Skin Conditioning, Solvent

Community Rating: Mixed

Butylene Glycol (or BG) is used within cosmetic products for a few different reasons:

It is a solvent, meaning that it helps to dissolve other ingredients. This also enhances the absorption of the product into one's skin.
It is a humectant, which means that it helps attract moisture into the skin.
It helps improve product application.

Overall, Butylene Glycol is a safe and well-rounded ingredient. It is unlikely to irritate skin, and works well with pretty much all other ingredients.

Decyl Glucoside

What it does: Cleansing, Emulsion Stabilising

Community Rating: Mixed

Decyl Glucoside is a glucose-based surfactant. Surfactants help clean the skin by trapping oil, sebum, and dirt to be washed away.

It is created by reacting glucose with the fatty acids from plants.

Decyl Glucoside also helps stabilize the ingredients in a product by preventing them from separating.

This ingredient is biodegradable and non-toxic. This ingredient is commonly found in baby shampoos.

Decyl Glucoside is sometimes used to stabilize the UV filter Tinosorb.

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Sodium Chloride

What it does: Masking

Community Rating: Very Disliked

Chances are, you eat sodium chloride every day. Sodium Chloride is also known as table salt.

This ingredient has many purposes in skincare: thickener, emulsifier, and exfoliator.

You'll most likely find this ingredient in cleansers where it is used to create a gel-like texture. As an emulsifier, it also prevents ingredients from separating.

There is much debate on whether this ingredient is comedogenic. The short answer - comedogenic ratings don't tell the whole story. Learn more about comegodenic ratings here.

The concensus about this ingredient causing acne seems to be divided. Research is needed to understand if this ingredient does cause acne.

Scrubs may use salt as the primary exfoliating ingredient.

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Sodium Laureth-8 Sulfate

What it does: Cleansing, Foaming

Sodium Laureth-8 Sulfate is a type of sulfate.

Zinc Coceth Sulfate

What it does: Cleansing, Emulsifying

Zinc Coceth Sulfate is a type of sulfate.

Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate

What it does:

Community Rating: Very Disliked

Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate is the sodium salt from the lauric acid of glutamic acid.

It is a surfactant and helps cleanse the skin. Surfactants gather oil, dirt, and other pollutants from your skin so they may be washed away easily.

Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate

What it does: Cleansing, Foaming

Community Rating: Very Disliked

This gentle cleansing and foaming ingredient is known for leaving a smooth feeling in skin and hair. It is made using coconut oil.

According to the manufacturer, it is soluble in water and has resistance to hard water, acid, and alkali.

Due to its coconut base, it may not be Malassezia folliculitis safe.

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Sodium Myristoyl Sarcosinate

What it does: Cleansing, Foaming

We don't have a description for Sodium Myristoyl Sarcosinate.

Coco-Glucoside

What it does: Cleansing, Foaming

Community Rating: Disliked

Coco-Glucoside is a surfactant, or a cleansing ingredient. It is made from glucose and coconut oil.

Surfactants help gather dirt, oil, and other pollutants from your skin to be rinsed away. Coco-Glucoside is considered gentle and non-comedogenic.

This ingredient is a known skin-irritant.

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Glyceryl Oleate

What it does: Emollient, Emulsifying, Perfuming

Community Rating: Disliked

Glyceryl Oleate is a fragrance and isn't fungal acne safe.

Lactic Acid

What it does: Buffering, Humectant, Skin Conditioning

Community Rating: Loved

Lactic Acid is an AHA that is derived from fermenting lactose, a carbohydrate from milk. It removes the top layer of old and dead skin cells and helps increase cell turnover.

Benefits of Lactic Acid are that it can help to reduce large pores and reduce the effects of aging. Some potential downsides are that it can be bad for dry skin, cause irritation, worsen eczema, and worsen rosacea.

Not only does it help exfoliate the skin, it helps strengthen the skin's barrier. When applied, lactic acid helps the skin create ceramides.

Lactic acid is an over-the-counter chemical exfoliant that comes from the fermentation of lactose — a carbohydrate found in milk.

Legend has it that Cleopatra used to bathe in sour milk to help reduce wrinkles.

Read more about some other popular AHA's here:

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Peg-120 Methyl Glucose Dioleate

What it does: Emulsifying

Community Rating: Very Disliked

Peg-120 Methyl Glucose Dioleate is used to improve texture and stability of a product. It is sugar based and helps thicken a product.

Once applied, it also creates a thin film to trap moisture in. This helps keep your skin hydrated.

This ingredient is the polyethylene glycol ether of the diester of oleic acid and methylglucose. The 120 represents an average of 120 moles of ethylene oxide.

There is limited research on this ingredient, although it is considered safe to use in skincare products.

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Piroctone Olamine

What it does: Preservative

Community Rating: Loved

Piroctone Olamine is a preservative.

Magnesium Laureth Sulfate

What it does: Cleansing

Magnesium Laureth Sulfate is a type of sulfate.

Sodium Oleth Sulfate

What it does: Cleansing, Emulsifying, Foaming

Sodium Oleth Sulfate is a type of sulfate.

Magnesium Laureth-8 Sulfate

What it does: Cleansing

Magnesium Laureth-8 Sulfate is a type of sulfate.

Benzoic Acid

What it does: Masking, Preservative

Community Rating: Disliked

Benzoic Acid is used to preserve and adjust the pH of products.

The antimicrobial property of Benzoic Acid helps elongate a product's shelf life. Its main role is to reduce fungi growth and is not found to be effective at fighting bacteria. Therefore Benzoic Acid is always added along with other preservatives.

In its pure form, Benzoic Acid looks like a white crystalline solid. It has slight solubility in water.

The name of Benzoic Acid comes from gum benzoin, which used to be the sole source of deriving this ingredient. Benzoic Acid is the most simple aromatic carboxylic acid.

Benzoic Acid is naturally occuring in strawberries, mustard, cinnamon, and cloves. It has a slight scent but is not considered to be a fragrance.

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Copper Gluconate

What it does: Skin Conditioning, Skin Protecting

Community Rating: Loved

We don't have a description for Copper Gluconate.

Manganese Gluconate

What it does: Skin Conditioning

We don't have a description for Manganese Gluconate.

Magnesium Oleth Sulfate

What it does: Cleansing

Magnesium Oleth Sulfate is a type of sulfate.