Product and ingredient reference
CUTIBase Ceramyd Face And Body Cleanser
CUTIBase Ceramyd Face And Body Cleanser CUTIBase Ceramyd Face And Body Cleanser ingredients explained: Aqua, Acrylates/Steareth-20 Methacrylate Copolymer, Disodium Coco-Glucoside Citrate, Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate, Decyl Glucoside, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium S
CUTIBase Ceramyd Face And Body Cleanser CUTIBase Ceramyd Face And Body Cleanser ingredients explained: Aqua, Acrylates/Steareth-20 Methacrylate Copolymer, Disodium Coco-Glucoside Citrate, Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate, Decyl Glucoside, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Hydroxide, Phospholipids, Sphingolipids, Cholesterol, Squalane, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Acrylates/Steareth-20 Methacrylate Copolymer viscosity controlling Disodium Coco-Glucoside Citrate emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying, viscosity controlling Decyl Glucoside surfactant/cleansing Phenoxyethanol preservative Potassium Sorbate Sodium Hydroxide buffering Phospholipids skin-identical ingredient, emollient goodie Sphingolipids emollient Cholesterol 0, 0 Squalane 0, 1 Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride 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. Expand to read more 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. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A cleansing agent that's a combination of citric acid and coco-glucoside. It's almost natural ("nearly natural substance" according to Ecocert standards), readily biodegradable, and very mild and non-irritating to the skin. 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 biodegradable. 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. It's one of those things that help your cosmetics not to go wrong too soon, aka a preservative. It’s not a strong one and doesn’t really work against bacteria, but more against mold and yeast. To do that it has to break down to its active form, sorbic acid. For that to happen, there has to be water in the product and the right pH value (pH 3-4). But even if everything is right, it’s not enough on its own. If you see potassium sorbate you should see some other preservative next to it too. BTW, it’s also a food preservative and even has an E number, E202. 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, l what‑it‑does emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying | viscosity controlling surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | emollient irritancy, com.