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Ingredients overview
Aqua, Decyl Oleate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Ceteareth-20, Sorbitol, Sorbic Acid
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Highlights
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Alcohol Free
Fragrance and Essential Oil Free
Emollient: Decyl Oleate, Cetearyl Alcohol
Emulsifying: Cetearyl Alcohol, Ceteareth-20
Moisturizer/humectant: Sorbitol
Preservative: Sorbic Acid
Solvent: Aqua
Surfactant/cleansing: Cetearyl Alcohol, Ceteareth-20
Viscosity controlling: Cetearyl Alcohol
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| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua | solvent | ||
| Decyl Oleate | emollient | 0, 3 | |
| Cetearyl Alcohol | emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | 1, 2 | |
| Ceteareth-20 | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | 3, 2 | |
| Sorbitol | moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | |
| Sorbic Acid | preservative |
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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.
Decyl Oleate
What-it-does: emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 3
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Cetearyl Alcohol
What-it-does: emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, emulsion stabilising, surfactant/cleansing | Irritancy: 1 | Comedogenicity: 2
An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%.
It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. alcohol. Fatty alcohols have a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tailpart that makes them absolutelynon-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin.
Ceteareth-20
What-it-does: emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | Irritancy: 3 | Comedogenicity: 2
A common functional ingredient that helps to keep the oil-loving and water-loving ingredients together (emulsifier), stabilizes and thickens the products.
Chemically speaking, it is ethoxylated Cetearyl alcohol, meaning that some ethylene oxide is added to the fatty alcohol to increase the water-soluble part in the molecule. The result is thatthe mainly oil soluble, emollient fatty alcohol is converted to an emulsifier molecule that keeps oil and water mixedin creams. The numberin the name ofCeteareth emulsifiers refersto the average number of ethylene oxide molecules added and 20 makes a good emulsifier.
Sorbitol
What-it-does: moisturizer/humectant | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
It's a sweet tasting sugar substitute that helps your skin to hold onto water when used in cosmetic products. It also helps to thicken up products and give them a bit more slip.
Sorbic Acid
What-it-does: preservative
A mild, natural preservative that usually comes to the formula together with its other mild preservative friends, such as Benzoic Acid and/orDehydroaceticAcid. Btw, it's also used as a food preservative.
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