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Ingredients overview
Aqua, Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Lauryl Glucoside, Zinc Pyrithione, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Methyl Isethionate, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Lauroyl Isethionate, Sodium Benzoate, Polyquaternium-7, Lauric Acid, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Citric Acid, Zinc Laurate, Sodium Laurate
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Highlights
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Alcohol Free
Fragrance and Essential Oil Free
Key Ingredients
Anti-acne: Lauric Acid
Antioxidant: Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil
Other Ingredients
Buffering: Citric Acid
Chelating: Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate
Emollient: Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil
Emulsifying: Sodium Methyl Isethionate, Lauric Acid, Sodium Laurate
Preservative: Zinc Pyrithione, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Benzoate
Solvent: Aqua
Surfactant/cleansing: Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Lauryl Glucoside, Sodium Methyl Isethionate, Sodium Lauroyl Isethionate, Lauric Acid, Sodium Laurate
Viscosity controlling: Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Chloride, Zinc Laurate
Skim through
| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua | solvent | ||
| Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Cocamidopropyl Betaine | surfactant/cleansing, viscosity controlling | ||
| Lauryl Glucoside | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Zinc Pyrithione | preservative | ||
| Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil | antioxidant, emollient | goodie | |
| Sodium Chloride | viscosity controlling | ||
| Sodium Methyl Isethionate | surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying | ||
| Phenoxyethanol | preservative | ||
| Sodium Lauroyl Isethionate | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Sodium Benzoate | preservative | ||
| Polyquaternium-7 | |||
| Lauric Acid | anti-acne, surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying | 1, 4 | goodie |
| Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate | chelating | ||
| Citric Acid | buffering | ||
| Zinc Laurate | viscosity controlling | ||
| Sodium Laurate | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing |
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Ingredients explainedAqua
Also-called: Water | What-it-does: solvent
Good old water, aka H2O. The most common skincare ingredient of all. You can usually find it right in the very first spot of the ingredient list, meaning it’s the biggest thing out of all the stuff that makes up the product.
It’s mainly a solvent for ingredients that do not like to dissolve in oils but rather in water.
Once inside the skin, it hydrates, but not from the outside - putting pure water on the skin (hello long baths!) is drying.
One more thing: the water used in cosmetics is purified and deionized (it means that almost all of the mineral ions inside it is removed). Like this, the products can stay more stable over time.
Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing
A very mildcleansing agentwitha dense andluxurious foam and an elegant after feel. It also has excellent water solubility and thus good rinsability.
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, viscosity controlling
Super common ingredient in all kinds of cleansing products: face and body washes, shampoos and foam baths.
Number one reason for its popularity has to do with bubbles. Everyone loves bubbles. And cocamidopropyl betaine is great at stabilizing them.
The other reason is that it’s mild and works very well combined with other cleansing agents and surfactants. The art of cleansing is usually to balance between properly cleansing but not over-cleansing and cocamidopropyl betaine is helpful in pulling off this balance right.
Oh, and one more nice thing: even though it’s synthetic it’s highly biodegradable.
More info on CAPB on Collins Beaty Pages.
Lauryl Glucoside
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing
A 100% vegetable origin, biodegradable, mild cleansing agent that givesmoderate to high amount of foam. It's happy to work together with other surfactants (in general, that helps to create milder formulas).
Zinc Pyrithione
What-it-does: preservative
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil - goodie
Also-called: Argan Oil | What-it-does: antioxidant, emollient
When it comes to cosmetic oils and hype, argan oil is for sure leading the way. Dubbed as the "liquid gold of Morocco", we have to admit we have some trouble determining why this oil enjoys such a special miracle status. Not that it's not good, it is good, even greatbut reading the research about argan and a bunch of other plant oils we just do not see the big, unique differentiating factor (though that might be our fault not reading enough, obvs.)
So, argan oil comes from the kernel of the argan fruit that comes from the argan tree that grows only in Morocco. The tree is slow growingand getting the oil is a hard job. The traditional process is that the ripe argan fruits fallfrom the tree, then goats eat them up and poop out the seeds. The seedsare collected and smashed with a stone to get the kernels inside. This part is the hard one as the seeds have extremely hard shells. Once the kernels are obtained, the oil is pressed out from them (the kernels contain about 50% oil).
As for skincare, argan oil is loaded with lots of skin goodies (but so are many other plant oils): it contains 80% nourishing and moisturizing unsaturatedfatty acids, mainly oleic (38-50%), linoleic (28-38%) and palmitic (10-18%). It also contains a relatively large amount of antioxidant vitamin E (600-900 mg/kg, about twice as much as olive), small amounts of antioxidant phenols (including caffeic acid, ferulic acid, and epicatechin), as well as some rare sterols with soothing and anti-inflammatory properties.
Thanks to all the above goodness in argan oil, it can greatly nourish and moisturize the skin and hair. It's also claimed to be able to neutralize collagen-damaging free radicals, help reduce scars, and revitalize and improve skin elasticity. You can even read that argan might help acne-prone skin, but being a high oleic oil, we would be careful with that.
All in all, argan oil is a real goodie but we do not fully understand the special miracle status it enjoys.
Sodium Chloride
Also-called: Salt | What-it-does: viscosity controlling
Sodium chloride is the fancy name of salt. Normal, everyday table salt.
If (similar to us) you are in the weird habit of reading the label on your shower gel while taking a shower, you might have noticed that sodium chloride is almost always on the ingredient list. The reason for this is that salt acts as a fantastic thickener in cleansing formulas created with ionic cleansing agents(aka surfactants) such as Sodium Laureth Sulfate. A couple of percents (typically 1-3%) turns a runny surfactant solution into a nice gel texture.
If you are into chemistry (if not, we understand, just skip this paragraph), the reason is that electrolytes (you know, the Na+ and Cl- ions) screen the electrostatic repulsion between the head groups of ionic surfactants and thus support the formation of long shaped micelles (instead of spherical ones) that entangle like spaghetti, and viola, a gel is formed. However, too much of it causes the phenomenon called "salting out", and the surfactant solution goes runny again.
Other than that, salt also works as an emulsion stabilizer inwater-in-oil emulsions, that is when water droplets are dispersed in the outer oil (or silicone) phase. And last but not least, when salt is right at the first spot of the ingredient list (and is not dissolved), the product is usually a body scrub where salt is thephysical exfoliating agent.
Sodium Methyl Isethionate
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Phenoxyethanol
What-it-does: preservative
It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben.
It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic.
Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10).
It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol.
Sodium Lauroyl Isethionate
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Sodium Benzoate
What-it-does: preservative
A helper ingredient that helps to makethe products stay nice longer, aka preservative. It works mainly against fungi.
It’s pH dependent and works best at acidic pH levels (3-5). It’s not strong enough to be used in itself so it’s always combined with something else, often with potassium sorbate.
Polyquaternium-7
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Lauric Acid - goodie
What-it-does: anti-acne, surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying | Irritancy: 1 | Comedogenicity: 4
A 12 carbon length fatty acid that can be found naturallyin coconut milk, coconut oil, laurel oil, and palm kernel oil. It's also in breast milk. As a skincare ingredient, it can be used as an emulsifier or as a cleansing agent.
What's more, there is emerging research about lauric acid being a good anti-acne ingredient. A 2009 study found thatthe lowest concentration to prevent evil acne-causing P. acnesgrowth of lauric acidis over 15 times lower than that of gold standard anti-acne ingredient benzoyl peroxide.
Though the studies are only in-vitro(made in the lab, not on real people), and it also has a high comedogenicity index, itmightbe worth a try if you are prone to inflamed acne (the type that's caused by P. acnes bacteria).
Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate
Also-called: EDDS | What-it-does: chelating
A helper ingredient that helps to neutralize the metal ions in the formula (they usually come from water) so it stays nice longer. The special property of this particular ingredient is that it's more effective against more problematic ions, likeCu (copper) and Fe (iron) compared to less problematic ones like Ca (calcium) and Mg (magnesium).
Citric Acid
What-it-does: buffering
Citric acid comes from citrus fruits and is an AHA. If these magic three letters don’t tell you anything, click here and read our detailed description on glycolic acid, the most famous AHA.
So citric acid is an exfoliant, that can - just like other AHAs - gently lift off the dead skin cells of your skin and make it more smooth and fresh.
There is also some research showing that citric acid with regular use (think three monthsand 20% concentration) can help sun-damaged skin, increase skin thickness and some nice hydrating things called glycosaminoglycans in the skin.
But according to a comparative study done in 1995, citric acid has less skin improving magic properties than glycolic or lactic acid. Probably that’s why citric acid is usually not used as an exfoliant but more as a helper ingredient in small amounts to adjust the pH of a formulation.
Zinc Laurate
What-it-does: viscosity controlling
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Sodium Laurate
What-it-does: emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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