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Vanicream Gentle Facial Cleanser Versus SebaMed Liquid Face And Body Wash
Vanicream Gentle Facial Cleanser Versus SebaMed Liquid Face And Body Wash This mild gel cleanser is mild enough to cleanse without leaving skin feeling tight or stripped. What's inside Key Ingredients No key ingredients Benefits Concerns No concerns Ingredient
Vanicream Gentle Facial Cleanser Versus SebaMed Liquid Face And Body Wash
This mild gel cleanser is mild enough to cleanse without leaving skin feeling tight or stripped.
What's inside
Key Ingredients
No key ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
No concerns
Ingredients Side-by-side
Water
Glycerin
Coco-Glucoside
Sodium Cocoyl Glycinate
Acrylates Copolymer
Caprylyl Glycol
Mica
Sodium Chloride
1,2-Hexanediol
Titanium Dioxide
Sodium Hydroxide
Disodium EDTA
Water, Glycerin, Coco-Glucoside, Sodium Cocoyl Glycinate, Acrylates Copolymer, Caprylyl Glycol, Mica, Sodium Chloride, 1,2-Hexanediol, Titanium Dioxide, Sodium Hydroxide, Disodium EDTA
Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate
Sodium Laureth Sulfate
Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate
Laureth-2
Panthenol
Glycol Distearate
Parfum
Saccharide Isomerate
Allantoin
Niacinamide
Pyridoxine Hcl
Glycine
Magnesium Aspartate
Alanine
Lysine
Leucine
Biotin
Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate
Sodium Citrate
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
Sorbitan Laurate
PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Dioleate
Phenoxyethanol
Potassium Sorbate
Sodium Benzoate
CI 47005
CI 42090
Water, Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate, Sodium Chloride, Laureth-2, Panthenol, Glycol Distearate, Parfum, Saccharide Isomerate, Allantoin, Niacinamide, Pyridoxine Hcl, Glycine, Magnesium Aspartate, Alanine, Lysine, Leucine, Biotin, Glycerin, Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate, Sodium Citrate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sorbitan Laurate, PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Dioleate, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, CI 47005, 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.
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.
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.
You might see people debate whether Sodium Chloride is comedogenic, but there actually haven't been any comedogenic tests done on it. Either way, the overall formulation of a product matters a lot more than any single ingredient.
You might see this ingredient used in scrubs as a primary exfoliating ingredient.
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!