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First Aid Beauty Hello Fab Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturiser Versus Covergirl Trublend Skin Enhancer Primer

First Aid Beauty Hello Fab Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturiser Versus Covergirl Trublend Skin Enhancer Primer What's inside Key Ingredients Benefits Concerns No concerns Ingredients Side-by-side Cocos Nucifera Fruit Juice Glucose Maltodextrin C12-15 Alky

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First Aid Beauty Hello Fab Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturiser Versus Covergirl Trublend Skin Enhancer Primer

What's inside

Key Ingredients

Benefits

Concerns

No concerns

Ingredients Side-by-side

Cocos Nucifera Fruit Juice

Glucose

Maltodextrin

C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate

Water

Dimethicone

Butylene Glycol

Glycerin

Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride

Mica

Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer

Cocos Nucifera Fruit

Hydrolyzed Quinoa

Selaginella Lepidophylla Extract

Pyrus Malus Fruit Extract

Prunus Armeniaca Fruit Extract

Saccharomyces/Zinc Ferment

Saccharomyces/Silicon Ferment

Saccharomyces/Magnesium Ferment

Saccharomyces/Iron Ferment

Saccharomyces/Copper Ferment

Dipteryx Odorata Seed Extract

Coffea Arabica Seed Extract

Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract

Glycyrrhiza Glabra Root Extract

Chrysanthemum Parthenium Extract

Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract

Tocopherol

Lactobacillus Ferment

Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate

Sorbitan Oleate

Ethylhexylglycerin

Dimethicone Crosspolymer

Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer

Polysorbate 80

Isohexadecane

Sodium Benzoate

Potassium Sorbate

Phenoxyethanol

Sodium Hydroxide

Disodium EDTA

Tin Oxide

CI 77891

CI 77491

Cocos Nucifera Fruit Juice, Glucose, Maltodextrin, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Water, Dimethicone, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Mica, Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Cocos Nucifera Fruit, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Selaginella Lepidophylla Extract, Pyrus Malus Fruit Extract, Prunus Armeniaca Fruit Extract, Saccharomyces/Zinc Ferment, Saccharomyces/Silicon Ferment, Saccharomyces/Magnesium Ferment, Saccharomyces/Iron Ferment, Saccharomyces/Copper Ferment, Dipteryx Odorata Seed Extract, Coffea Arabica Seed Extract, Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra Root Extract, Chrysanthemum Parthenium Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Tocopherol, Lactobacillus Ferment, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Sorbitan Oleate, Ethylhexylglycerin, Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Polysorbate 80, Isohexadecane, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Hydroxide, Disodium EDTA, Tin Oxide, CI 77891, CI 77491

Pvp

Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/Beheneth-25 Methacrylate Crosspolymer

1,2-Hexanediol

Caprylyl Glycol

Chlorphenesin

3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid

Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice

Sodium Hyaluronate

Arginine

CI 42090

Water, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Pvp, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/Beheneth-25 Methacrylate Crosspolymer, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Chlorphenesin, 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Sodium Hyaluronate, Arginine, CI 42090

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Ingredients Explained

These ingredients are found in both products.

Ingredients higher up in an ingredient list are typically present in a larger amount.

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

Overall, Butylene Glycol is a safe and well-rounded ingredient that works well with other ingredients.

Though this ingredient works well with most skin types, some people with sensitive skin may experience a reaction such as allergic rashes, closed comedones, or itchiness.

Glycerin (or glycerol) is a compound naturally found in your skin. It's a powerhouse humectant that pulls water into the stratum corneum.

Topically, glycerin does several things at once:

Your skin makes glycerin on its own (mostly from sebaceous oil breakdown) and shuttles it to your outermost layer of skin, or your epidermis, via aquaporin-3.

Aquaporin-3 is a transporter that is essential for normal skin hydration, elasticity, and repair. Interestingly, mice lacking in AQP3 have dry and less elastic skin that can be fully corrected with glycerin.

This ingredient is non-irritating, plays well with almost every ingredient, and works across all skin types. Typical use is anywhere between 3-10% but can go up to 79% in some leave-on products.

Just know very high concentrations (>40%) can feel tacky in low humidity.

Glycerin is the name for this ingredient in American English. British English uses Glycerol/Glycerine.

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!

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  1. 01Castor oil is sourced from the castor bean plant native to tropical areas in Eastern Africa and the Mediterranean Basin. It is an age-old ingredient (it’s over 4,000 years old!) with many uses including as a shoe polish, food additive and motor lubr…
  2. 02So what is so special about it? The answer is its main fatty acid, called ricinoleic acid (85-95%). Unlike other fatty acids, ricinoleic acid has an extra water-loving part (aka -OH group) on its fatty chain that gives Castor Oil several unique prop…
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  4. 04While it is very unlikely (and this is true for pretty much every ingredient), cases of reactions to castor oil have been reported, so if your skin is sensitive, it never hurts to patch test.
  5. 05A thick, paste-like emollient ester that is touted as a vegetable-derived lanolin alternative. It has a smooth spreadability and touch, and it gives a substantive film to protect and moisturize the skin.
  6. 06Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil).
  7. 07At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically - or rather che…
  8. 08So what the heck is a wax ester and why is that important anyway? Well, to understand what a wax ester is, you first have to know that oils are chemically triglycerides: one glycerin + three fatty acids attached to it. The fatty acids attached to th…
  9. 09Mother Nature also created wax esters but for a totally different purpose. Chemically, a wax ester is a fatty acid + a fatty alcohol, one long molecule. Wax esters are on the outer surface of several plant leaves to give them environmental protectio…
  10. 10So being a wax ester results in a couple of unique properties: First, jojoba oil is extremely stable. Like crazy stable. Even if you heat it to 370 C (698 F) for 96 hours, it does not budge. (Many plant oils tend to go off pretty quickly). If you ha…
  11. 11Second, jojoba oil is the most similar to human sebum (both being wax esters), and the two are completely miscible. Acne.org has this not fully proven theory that thanks to this, jojoba might be able to "trick" the skin into thinking it has already …
  12. 12Third, jojoba oil moisturizes the skin through a unique dual action: on the one hand, it mixes with sebum and forms a thin, non-greasy, semi-occlusive layer; on the other hand, it absorbs into the skin through pores and hair follicles then diffuses …
  13. 13On balance, the point is this: in contrast to real plant oils, wax esters were designed by Mother Nature to stay on the surface and form a protective, moisturizing barrier and jojoba oil being a wax ester is uniquely excellent at doing that.
  14. 14We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
  15. 15The oil coming from the pulp of one of the most nutritious fruits in the world, the avocado. It's loaded with the nourishing and moisturizing fatty acid, oleic (70%) and contains some others including palmitic (10%) and linoleic acid (8%). It also c…
  16. 16Avocado oil has extraordinary skin penetration abilities and can nourish different skin layers. It's a very rich, highly moisturizing emollient oil that makes the skin smooth and nourished. Thanks to its vitamin E content it also has some antioxidan…
  17. 17The soft solid, off-white to ivory butter or oil coming from the kernel (the seed inside of the seed) of the Mango. Similar to many other plant oils, it's a great moisturizing and nourishing emollient oil. It has medium spreadability and gives skin …
  18. 18It's loaded with a bunch of good-for-the-skin stuff: it contains almost all of the essential amino acids, has several antioxidant phenolic compounds (including famous antioxidant ferulic acid) and is a rich source of nourishing fatty acids (like ste…
  19. 19All in all, a skin goodie especially for dry skin types.
  20. 20The extract coming from the lovely herb, rosemary. It contains lots of chemicals, including flavonoids, phenolic acids, and diterpenes. Its main active is rosmarinic acid, a potent antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory. It has also anti-bacterial, astr…
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