The Inkey List Glycerin Gentle Purifying Cleanser

The Inkey List Glycerin Gentle Purifying Cleanser The Inkey List Glycerin Gentle Purifying Cleanser ingredients explained: Water (Aqua/Eau), Glycerin, Coco-Glucoside, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Xanthan Gum, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Benzoate, Triolein, Sea Water, Citric Acid, Centella Asiatica Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract, Hydrolyzed Rhodophyceae Extract, Ethylhexylglycerin, Tocopherol Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua/Eau) solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Coco-Glucoside surfactant/​cleansing Cocamidopropyl Betaine Xanthan Gum viscosity controlling Phenoxyethanol preservative Sodium Chloride Sodium Benzoate Triolein emollient Sea Water moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Citric Acid buffering Centella Asiatica Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract Hydrolyzed Rhodophyceae Extract Ethylhexylglycerin Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 goodie 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. A natural moisturizer that’s also in our skin A super common, safe, effective and cheap molecule used for more than 50 years Not only a simple moisturizer but knows much more: keeps the skin lipids between our skin cells in a healthy (liquid crystal) state, protects against irritation, helps to restore barrier Effective from as low as 3% with even more benefits for dry skin at higher concentrations up to 20-40% High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry skin A vegetable origin (coconut/palm kernel oil, glucose) cleansing agent that gives moderate to high stable foam. It's also biodegradable and mild to the skin. Super common ingredient in all kinds of cleansing products: face and body washes, shampoos and foam baths. Number one reason for its popularity has to do with bubbles. Everyone loves bubbles. And cocamidopropyl betaine is great at stabilizing them. The other reason is that it’s mild and works very well combined with other cleansing agents and surfactants. The art of cleansing is usually to balance between properly cleansing but not over-cleansing and cocamidopropyl betaine is helpful in pulling off this balance right. Oh, and one more nice thing: even though it’s synthetic it’s highly biodegradable. More info on CAPB on Collins Beaty Pages. It's one of the most commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like. Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below 1%, it is usually in the 0.1-0.5% range. Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It’s approved by Ecocert and also used in the food industry (E415). 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. O what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy, com. surfactant/cleansing moisturizer/humectant | solvent

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