First Aid Beauty Anti-chafe Stick With Shea Butter + Colloidal Oatmeal

First Aid Beauty Anti-chafe Stick With Shea Butter + Colloidal Oatmeal First Aid Beauty Anti-chafe Stick With Shea Butter + Colloidal Oatmeal ingredients explained: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Ozokerite, Tapioca Starch, Magnesium Hydroxide, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Colloidal Oatmeal, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Bisabolol, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract, Magnesium Carbonate, Piroctone Olamine Show all ingredients by function Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Ozokerite viscosity controlling Tapioca Starch Magnesium Hydroxide buffering Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 4 goodie Colloidal Oatmeal soothing, antioxidant, emollient, abrasive/​scrub Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter Bisabolol soothing Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract antioxidant, soothing Magnesium Carbonate Piroctone Olamine preservative A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. A hydrocarbon wax consisting mainly of saturated straight chain hydrocarbons with C18-90+ carbon chain length. It has a high melting point (58-100 C) and it is used mainly in stick type products, such as lip balms to keep the product nice and solid. A soft, white powder that can be used as a talc replacement in body powders or in pressed powders. It also has some oil absorbing properties and gives increased cushion and richness to emulsion-type formulas. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. There is definitely some craze going on for coconut oil both in the healthy eating space (often claimed to be the healthiest oil to cook with but this is a topic for another site) and in the skin and hair care space. We will talk here about the latter two and see why we might want to smear it all over ourselves. Chemically speaking, coconut oil has a unique fatty acid profile. Unlike many plant oils that mostly contain unsaturated fatty acids (fatty acids with double bonds and kinky structure such as linoleic or oleic), coconut oil is mostly saturated (fatty acids with single bonds only) and its most important fatty acid is Lauric Acid (about 50%). Saturated fatty acids have a linear structure that can stack nice and tight and hence they are normally solid at room temperature. Coconut oil melts around 25 °C so it is solid in the tub but melts on contact with the skin. Expand to read more The saturated nature of coconut oil also means that it is a heavy-duty-oil ideal for dry skin types. A double-blind research confirmed that extra virgin coconut oil is as effective in treating xerosis (aka very dry skin) as mineral oil. Another study found that coconut oil is more effective than mineral oil in treating mild to moderate atopic dermatitis (aka eczema) in children. So when it comes to dry skin, coconut oil is a goodie, no question there. The question is if it is good or bad for acne-prone skin. Its main fatty acid, Lauric Acid has some research showing that it is a promising ingredient against evil acne-causing bacteria, P. acnes but at the same time, both Lauric Acid and coconut oil have a very high comedogenic rating (4 out of 5). Though comedogenic ratings are not very reliable, anecdotal evidence (i.e. people commenting in forums) shows that people have mixed experiences. While some claim that it worked wonders on their acne others say that it gave them serious blackheads and zits. Try it at your own risk. As for hair care, coconut oil has pretty solid research showing that it can penetrate into the hair very well (better than mineral oil and sunflower oil) and it can prevent hair protein loss as well as combing damage. If you have proble what‑it‑does emollient | perfuming irritancy, com. soothing | antioxidant | emollient | abrasive/scrub antioxidant | soothing

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