Facial cleansing hydro gel.
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Ingredients overview
Aqua, Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract, Carbomer, L-Arginine, Sodium Salicylate, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin
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Fragrance and Essential Oil Free
Key Ingredients
Other Ingredients
Emulsifying: PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil
Preservative: Sodium Salicylate, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin
Solvent: Aqua
Surfactant/cleansing: PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil
Viscosity controlling: Carbomer
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| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua | solvent | ||
| Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract | |||
| Carbomer | viscosity controlling | 0, 1 | |
| L-Arginine | skin-identical ingredient | goodie | |
| Sodium Salicylate | preservative | ||
| PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Phenoxyethanol | preservative | ||
| Ethylhexylglycerin | preservative |
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Ingredients explainedAqua
Also-called: Water | What-it-does: solvent
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.
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.
Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract
Also-called: Ginkgo Biloba Extract
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Carbomer
What-it-does: viscosity controlling, emulsion stabilising | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 1
A big molecule created from repeated subunits (a polymer of acrylic acid) that magically converts a liquidinto a nice gel formula. It usually has to be neutralized with a base (such as sodium hydroxide) for the thickening to occur and it creates viscous, clear gels that also feel nice and non-tacky on the skin. No wonder, it is a very popular and common ingredient. Typically used at 1% or less in most formulations.
L-Arginine - goodie
What-it-does: skin-identical ingredient
A semi-essential (infants cannot synthesize it, but adults can) amino acid that is one of the primary building blocks of hair keratin and skin collagen. It's a natural moisturizing factor, a skin hydratorand might also help to speed up wound healing.
Arginine usually has apositive charge (cationic) that makes it substantive to skin and hair (those are more negatively charged surfaces) and an excellent film former. Thanks to the positive charge, it also creates a complex with AHAs (AHAs like to lose a hydrogen ion and be negatively charged, so the positive and the negative ions attract each other) that causes a "time-release AHA effect" and reduces the irritation associated with AHAs.
Sodium Salicylate
What-it-does: preservative
The sodium salt of salicylic acid. CosIng (the official EU cosmetic ingredient database) says that it's a preservative and helps to make the product taste bad (called denaturant),while some manufacturerclaims that it has exfoliating properties and is antimicrobial. It's good to know, that the salt of an exfoliant is a neutralized form, so if you want to go for exfoliation stick to the pure acid.
PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil
What-it-does: emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing
A mildly viscous, amber-colored liquid with fatty odor, made from Castor Oil and polyethylene glycol (PEG).
If it were a person, we’d say, it’s agile, diligent & multifunctional. It’s mostly used as an emulsifier and surfactant but most often it is used to solubilizefragrances into water-based formulas.
Phenoxyethanol
What-it-does: preservative
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.
Ethylhexylglycerin
What-it-does: preservative, deodorant
If you have spottedethylhexylglycerinon the ingredient list, most probably you will see there also the current IT-preservative,phenoxyethanol. They are good friends becauseethylhexylglycerincan boost the effectiveness of phenoxyethanol (and other preservatives) and as an added bonus it feels nice on the skin too.
Also,it's an effective deodorant and a medium spreadingemollient.
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Normal (well kind of - it's purified and deionized) water. Usually the main solvent in cosmetic products. [more] A handy white powder that magically converts a liquid into a nice gel formula. [more] An amino acid that is one of the primary building blocks of hair keratin and skin collagen. It's a natural moisturizing factorand might also help to speed up wound healing. [more] The sodium salt of salicylic acid. CosIng (the official EU cosmetic ingredient database) says that it's a preservative and helps to make the product taste bad (called denaturant),while some manufacturerclaims that it has exfoliating properties and is antimicrobial. [more] A mildly viscous, amber-colored liquid that works as an emulsifier and surfactant. [more] Pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, and can be used up to 1% worldwide. [more] It can boost the effectiveness of phenoxyethanol (and other preservatives) and as an added bonus it feels nice on the skin too. [more] what‑it‑does solvent what‑it‑does viscosity controlling irritancy,com. 0, 1 what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient what‑it‑does preservative what‑it‑does emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing what‑it‑does preservative what‑it‑does preservative
