Good for sensitive skin no fragrance no perfume Uploaded by nurlitaintannn on 10/23/2020 Ingredients overview Aqua, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Acrylates Copolymer, Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate, Decyl Glucoside, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate, Potassium Cocoate, Phenoxyethanol, Dmdm Hydantoin, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Hydroxide, Polyethylene, Ethylhexylglycerin, Disodium EDTA Highlights alcohol-free fragrance & essentialoil-free Key Ingredients Other Ingredients Skim through Ingredient name what-it-does irr., com. ID-Rating Aqua solvent Sodium Laureth Sulfate surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent, viscosity controlling 0, 0 Acrylates Copolymer viscosity controlling Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying, viscosity controlling Decyl Glucoside surfactant/​cleansing Cocamidopropyl Betaine surfactant/​cleansing, viscosity controlling Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate surfactant/​cleansing Potassium Cocoate emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Phenoxyethanol preservative Dmdm Hydantoin preservative icky Sodium Chloride viscosity controlling Sodium Hydroxide buffering Polyethylene viscosity controlling Ethylhexylglycerin preservative Disodium EDTA chelating Emina Dot Burst Face WashIngredients explained 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. It’s probably the most common cleansing ingredient of all. It’s usually the Chief Bubble Officer responsible for big bubbles in cleansing products through the foam it creates is a bit airy and loose and not as dense and luxurious as the foam created by infamous SLS. As for mildness, it goes somewhere in the middle. It’s often confused with sodium lauryl sulfate SLS, but they are absolutely not the same. The SLES molecule has a bigger water-soluble head part that makes it milder and much less irritating. It is considered absolutely ok in the amount used in cosmetic products, though if you are looking for a mild facial cleanser, you have better chances with a formula without SLES. For an average shower gel? SLES works just fine. A natural moisturizer that’s also in our skin A super common, safe, effective and cheap molecule used for more than 50 yearsNot only a simple moisturizer but knows much more keeps the skin lipids between our skin cells in a healthy liquid crystal state, protects against irritation, helps to restore barrierEffective from as low as 3% with even more benefits for dry skin at higher concentrations up to 20-40%High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry skin Read all the geeky details about Glycerin here >> It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of productsIt's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancerIt has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree read more in the geeky details section Read all the geeky details about Propylene Glycol here >> A big polymer molecule that has a bunch of different versions and thus different uses. It can act as a film former, as a thickening agent, or it can increase the water-resistance in sunscreens. It is also used to entrap pigments/inorganic sunscreens within a micron size matrix for even coverage and easy application. A mild, biodegradable cleansing agent that is also a very good team-player next to other cleaning agents. It is known for its good foam-boosing abilities while improving the mildness of the formula. Its performance is similar to Isethionates, another group of cleaning agents known for their gentleness. A vegetable origin coconut or palm kernel oil and glucose cleansing agent with great foaming abilities. It's also mild to the skin and readily 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. An amino-acid based cleansing agent that is described as extremely mild and having outstanding foamability. It can also reduce the harshness and leftover of stronger surfactants such as SLS or fatty acid soaps. We don't have description for this ingredient 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 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 controversial preservative that has formaldehyde-releasing properties. It works great against bacteria and also has mild fungicide abilities. Cosmetic chemist, Colin wrote a great article about formaldehyde and DMDM Hydantoin. He writes that formaldehyde is the perfect example of "the dose makes the poison" principle. It's a natural stuff that can also be found in fresh fruits and vegetables, and eating it in tiny amounts is totally ok. However, in larger amounts according to Wikipedia 30 mL of a solution containing 37% formaldehyde it's deadly. The amount of formaldehyde used in cosmetics either neat or through formaldehyde-releasing preservatives is tiny. Probably that is why the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Broad concluded both in 1988 and in 2008 that DMDM Hydantoin is "safe as used in cosmetics". However, Colins argues that in the case of formaldehyde-releasing preservatives, formaldehyde is released slowly and the skin has probably not evolved to deal with that. The lingering formaldehyde might be toxic to the Langerhans Cells that are important for the skin's defense system. Another potential issue is that formaldehyde-releasers might also release other things while reacting with amino acids in the skin that is probably the explanation why some people are not allergic to formaldehyde but are allergic to formaldehyde-releasing preservatives. These are all theories, far from proven facts, but we feel that there are some justified reasons why formaldehyde-releasing preservatives and Dmdm Hydantoin count as controversial. All in all, it's up to you to decide if you wanna avoid this preservative group or not. If so, there are other, less risky and more skin-friendly options out there. 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 in water-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 the physical exfoliating agent. Also-called lye What-it-does buffering The unfancy name for it is lye. It’s a solid white stuff that’s very alkaline and used in small amounts to adjust the pH of the product and make it just right. For example, in case of AHA or BHA exfoliants, the right pH is super-duper important, and pH adjusters like sodium hydroxide are needed. BTW, lye is not something new. It was already used by ancient Egyptians to help oil and fat magically turn into something else. Can you guess what? Yes, it’s soap. It still often shows up in the ingredient list of soaps and other hydroxide in itself is a potent skin irritant, but once it's reacted as it is usually in skin care products, like exfoliants it is totally is the most common plastic in the world. It is a super versatile polymer molecule from repeated subunits and when it comes to cosmetics, it is often referred to as microbeads. Well, it used to be referred to as microbeads, as it was banned in 2015 in the " Microbead-Free Waters Act" due to the small plastic spheres accumulating in the waters and looking like food to fish. Well done by Obama. But being versatile means that polyethylene does not only come as scrub particles but also as a white wax. In its wax-form, it is still well, alive and pretty popular. It thickens up water-free formulas, increases hardness and raises the melting point of emulsions and water-less balms. It is particularly common in cleansing balms and stick-type makeup products due to its ability to add body, hardness and slip to these formulas. If you have spotted ethylhexylglycerin on the ingredient list, most probably you will see there also the current IT-preservative, phenoxyethanol. They are good friends because ethylhexylglycerin can boost the effectiveness of phenoxyethanol and other preservatives and as an added bonus it feels nice on the skin too. Also, it's an effective deodorant and a medium spreading emollient. Super common little helper ingredient that helps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. It does so by neutralizing the metal ions in the formula that usually get into there from water that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes. It is typically used in tiny amounts, around or less. You may also want to take a look at... Normal well kind of - it's purified and deionized water. Usually the main solvent in cosmetic products. [more] It’s probably the most common cleansing ingredient of all. It’s usually the Chief Bubble Officer responsible for big bubbles in cleansing products through the foam it creates is a bit airy and loose and not as dense and luxurious as the foam created by infamous SLS. As for mildness, it goes somewhere in the middle. [more] A real oldie but a goodie. Great natural moisturizer and skin-identical ingredient that plays an important role in skin hydration and general skin health. [more] A common glycol that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products. It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer. [more] A big polymer molecule that has a bunch of different versions and thus different uses. It can act as a film former, as a thickening agent, or it can increase the water-resistance in sunscreens. [more] A mild, biodegradable cleansing agent that is also a very good team-player next to other cleaning agents. It is known for its good foam-boosing abilities while improving the mildness of the formula. [more] A vegetable origin coconut or palm kernel oil and glucose cleansing agent with great foaming abilities. It's also mild to the skin and readily biodegradable. 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. [more] An amino-acid based cleansing agent that is described as extremely mild and having outstanding foamability. It can also reduce the harshness and leftover of stronger surfactants such as SLS or fatty acid soaps. [more] Pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, and can be used up to 1% worldwide. [more] A controversial preservative that has formaldehyde-releasing properties. It works great against bacteria and also has mild fungicide abilities. [more] 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. [more] Lye - A solid white stuff that’s very alkaline and used in small amount to adjust the pH of the product. [more] The common plastic molecule that is used as a white wax to give hardness and slip to the formulas. It used to be used as microbeads as well but was banned in 2015 due to environmental reasons. [more] It can boost the effectiveness of phenoxyethanol and other preservatives and as an added bonus it feels nice on the skin too. [more] Super common little helper ingredient that helps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. It does so by neutralizing the metal ions in the formula that usually get into there from water that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes. [more]