Men's Cleanser Uploaded by chayadhornk on 10/21/2020 Ingredients overview Aqua/​Water, Glycerin, Myristic Acid, Stearic Acid, Palmitic Acid, Potassium Hydroxide, Lauric Acid, Butylene Glycol, Sorbitol, Glyceryl Stearate SE, PEG-8, Parfum/​Fragrance, Ci 77499/​Iron Oxides, Linalool, Pumice, Salicylic Acid, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Perlite, Kaolin, Phenoxyethanol, Limonene, Ascorbyl Glucoside, Tetrasodium EDTA, Charcoal Powder, Citric Acid, Menthol, Polyquaternium-4, Hexyl Cinnamal, Polyglycerin-10, Polyglyceryl-10 Myristate, Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate, Benzyl Salicylate, Benzyl Alcohol Highlights alcohol-free Key Ingredients Other Ingredients Skim through Ingredient name what-it-does irr., com. ID-Rating Aqua/Water solvent Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Myristic Acid surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying, perfuming 0, 3 Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3 Palmitic Acid skin-identical ingredient, emollient, emulsifying 0, 2 Potassium Hydroxide buffering Lauric Acid anti-acne, surfactant/​cleansing, emulsifying 1, 4 goodie Butylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 1 Sorbitol moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 Glyceryl Stearate SE emulsifying 2, 3 PEG-8 moisturizer/​humectant, solvent Parfum/Fragrance perfuming icky Ci 77499/Iron Oxides colorant 0, 0 Linalool perfuming icky Pumice abrasive/​scrub, viscosity controlling Salicylic Acid exfoliant, anti-acne, soothing, preservative superstar Sodium Dehydroacetate preservative Perlite Kaolin colorant, abrasive/​scrub 0, 0 goodie Phenoxyethanol preservative Limonene perfuming, solvent icky Ascorbyl Glucoside antioxidant, skin brightening goodie Tetrasodium EDTA chelating Charcoal Powder abrasive/​scrub Citric Acid buffering Menthol soothing icky Polyquaternium-4 Hexyl Cinnamal perfuming icky Polyglycerin-10 moisturizer/​humectant Polyglyceryl-10 Myristate Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate emulsifying Benzyl Salicylate perfuming icky Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Garnier Men Turbolight Oil Control 3 In 1 CharcoalIngredients explained Also-called Aqua;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. A natural moisturizer that’s also in our skin A super common, safe, effective and cheap molecule used for more than 50 yearsNot 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 barrierEffective 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 Read all the geeky details about Glycerin here >> A 14 carbon length fatty acid that can be naturally found in nutmeg, palm kernel oil, coconut oil and butter fat. It's used as a foam building cleansing agent. Paula Begoun writes that it can be a bit drying to the skin. A common multi-tasker fatty acid. It makes your skin feel nice and smooth emollient, gives body to cream type products and helps to stabilize water and oil mixes aka emulsions.A fatty acid that can be found naturally in the skin. In fact, it's the most common saturated fatty acid found in animals and plants. As for skincare, it can make the skin feel nice and smooth in moisturizers emollient or it can act as a foam building cleansing agent in cleansers. It's also a very popular ingredient in shaving foams. It's a very alkaline stuff that helps to set the pH of the cosmetic formula to be just right. It's similar to the more often used sodium hydroxide and pretty much the same of what we wrote there applies here too. A 12 carbon length fatty acid that can be found naturally in coconut milk, coconut oil, laurel oil, and palm kernel oil. It's also in breast milk. As a skincare ingredient, it can be used as an emulsifier or as a cleansing more, there is emerging research about lauric acid being a good anti-acne ingredient. A 2009 study found that the lowest concentration to prevent evil acne-causing P. acnes growth of lauric acid is over 15 times lower than that of gold standard anti-acne ingredient benzoyl peroxide. Though the studies are only in-vitro made in the lab, not on real people, and it also has a high comedogenicity index, it might be worth a try if you are prone to inflamed acne the type that's caused by P. acnes bacteria.Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product. BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin penetration enhancer, making the product spread nicely over the skin slip agent, and attracting water humectant into the skin. It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone at least not that we know about. BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive. It's a sweet tasting sugar substitute that helps your skin to hold onto water when used in cosmetic products. It also helps to thicken up products and give them a bit more slip. What-it-does emulsifying Irritancy 2 Comedogenicity 3 An oily kind of ingredient that can magically blend with water all by itself. This is called self-emulsifying and SE in its name stands for that. The difference between "normal" Glyceryl Stearate and this guy is that the SE grade contains a small amount of water-loving soap molecules, such as sodium stearate. This increases Glyceryl Stearate's affinity for water and gives it stronger emulsifying abilities. Other than that, it’s a nice emollient that gives a smooth and soft appearance to the skin. You can read some more at Glyceryl Stearate >> A smallish polymer molecule created from repeated units of Polyethylene glycol, aka PEG that's used as a solubilizer and viscosity control is a clear, colorless liquid that is water-soluble and water-binding aka humectant and can help to solubilize sparingly-water soluble things vanilla, perfumes into water-based formulas. Thanks to its water-binding ability, it also prevents the drying out of formulas, especially when combined with the fellow hygroscopic agent, sorbitol. Also-called Fragrance, Parfum What-it-does perfuming Exactly what it sounds nice smelling stuff put into cosmetic products so that the end product also smells nice. Fragrance in the US and parfum in the EU is a generic term on the ingredient list that is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on average but it can have as much as 200 components!. If you are someone who likes to know what you put on your face then fragrance is not your best friend - there's no way to know what’s really in it. Also, if your skin is sensitive, fragrance is again not your best friend. It’s the number one cause of contact allergy to cosmetics. It’s definitely a smart thing to avoid with sensitive skin and fragrance of any type - natural is just as allergic as synthetic, if not worse!. Also-called Iron Oxide Black;Ci 77499 What-it-does colorant Irritancy 0 Comedogenicity 0 Black Iron Oxide is the super common inorganic as in no carbon atom in the molecule pigment that controls the darkness of your foundation or gives the blackness to your mascara. Blended with red and black iron oxides, it is essential in all "flesh-toned" makeup products. Chemically speaking, it is a mixture of iron II and iron III oxide. Btw, this guy, unlike the yellow and red pigments, is magnetic. Linalool is a super common fragrance ingredient. It’s kind of everywhere - both in plants and in cosmetic products. It’s part of 200 natural oils including lavender, ylang-ylang, bergamot, jasmine, geranium and it can be found in 90-95% of prestige perfumes on the market. The problem with linalool is, that just like limonene it oxidises on air exposure and becomes allergenic. That’s why a product containing linalool that has been opened for several months is more likely to be allergenic than a fresh one. A study made in the UK with 483 people tested the allergic reaction to 3% oxidised linalool and had positive test results. We don't have description for this ingredient one of the gold standard ingredients for treating problem skinIt can exfoliate skin both on the surface and in the poresIt's a potent anti-inflammatory agentIt's more effective for treating blackheads than acneFor acne combine it with antibacterial agents like benzoyl peroxide or azelaic acid Read all the geeky details about Salicylic Acid here >> Also-called Geogard 111S What-it-does preservative A helper ingredient that helps to make the products stay nice longer, aka preservative. It works mainly against fungi and has only milder effect against bacteria. It is Ecocert and Cosmos approved, and is popular in natural products. We don't have description for this ingredient is a type of clay or to be precise, a naturally occurring hydrous aluminum silicate. When you hear clay, you probably think of a muddy greenish-black mess, but that one is bentonite, and this one is a fine, white powder. It is so white that it's also often used, in small amounts, as a helper ingredient to give opacity and whiteness to the cosmetic formulas. As a clay, it's absorbent and can suck up excess sebum and gunk from your skin, but less so than the more aggressive bentonite. As it's less absorbent, it's also less drying and gentler on the skin, so it's ideal for dry and sensitive skin types. 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 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 super common and cheap fragrance ingredient. It's in many plants, rosemary, eucalyptus, lavender, lemongrass, peppermint and it's the main component about 50-90% of the peel oil of citrus does smell nice but the problem is that it oxidizes on air exposure and the resulting stuff is not good for the skin. Oxidized limonene can cause allergic contact dermatitis and counts as a frequent skin sensitizer. Limonene's nr1 function is definitely being a fragrance component, but there are several studies showing that it's also a penetration enhancer, mainly for oil-loving in all, limonene has some pros and cons, but - especially if your skin is sensitive - the cons probably outweigh the pros. A form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. If you do not know why vitamin C is such a big deal in skincare, we have a really detailed, geeky description that's good to read. So now you know that because pure vitamin C is such a diva very unstable and hard to formulate the cosmetic industry is trying to come up with some derivatives that have the badass anti-aging properties of vitamin C antioxidant protection + collagen boosting + fading hyperpigmentation but without the disadvantages. This is a hard task, and there is not yet a derivative that is really proven to be better in every aspect, but Ascorbyl Glucoside is one of the best options when it comes to vitamin C derivatives. Let's see why First, it's really stable and easy to formulate, so the problems that come with pure vitamin C are solved here. Second, in vitro meaning made in the lab, not on real humans studies show that ascorbyl glucoside can penetrate the skin. This is kind of important for an anti-aging ingredient to do the job, so this is good news, though in-vivo made on real humans studies are still needed. Third, in-vitro studies show that after ascorbyl glucoside is absorbed into the skin it is converted to pure vitamin C though the rate of conversion is still a question mark. It also shows all the three anti-aging benefits antioxidant protection + collagen boosting + fading hyperpigmentation that pure vitamin C does. Bottom line ascorbyl glucoside is one of the best and most promising vitamin C derivatives that shows similar benefits to that of pure vitamin C, but it's less proven in vivo vs. in vitro studies and the extent of the benefits are also not the same. A handy helper ingredient that helps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. It does so by neutralizing the metal ions in the formula that usually get into there from water that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes. We don't have description for this ingredient acid comes from citrus fruits and is an AHA. If these magic three letters don’t tell you anything, click here and read our detailed description on glycolic acid, the most famous AHA. So citric acid is an exfoliant, that can - just like other AHAs - gently lift off the dead skin cells of your skin and make it more smooth and fresh. There is also some research showing that citric acid with regular use think three months and 20% concentration can help sun-damaged skin, increase skin thickness and some nice hydrating things called glycosaminoglycans in the skin. But according to a comparative study done in 1995, citric acid has less skin improving magic properties than glycolic or lactic acid. Probably that’s why citric acid is usually not used as an exfoliant but more as a helper ingredient in small amounts to adjust the pH of a formulation. Menthol needs no introduction it's the thing that causes the cooling sensation so well-known both from cosmetic products as well as a bunch of other things like chocolate, chewing gum, toothpaste or cigarette. It's a natural compound that comes from the essential oil of Mentha species peppermint oil contains 40-50% menthol and it gives them their typical minty smell and flavor. As for skincare, menthol seems to be a mixed bag. Apart from the cool cooling sensation that might last up to 70 mins!, it also has painkilling, itch reducing, antibacterial, antifungal and even penetration enhancing properties. On the other hand, it also seems to act as a skin irritant that increases trans-epidermal water loss the water that evaporates from the outer layer of the skin and thus contributes to drying out the skin. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A common fragrance ingredient that smells like jasmine. It is one of the “EU 26 fragrances” that has to be labelled separately because of allergen potential. Best to avoid if your skin is sensitive. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. A vegetable-based, PEG-free ingredient whose job is to help water and oil to mix nicely together emulsifier. It is created by attaching ten water-loving glycerin molecules with the oil-loving fatty acid, stearic acid. The result is a partly water- and partly oil-loving molecule that creates stable and smooth emulsions that are also cosmetically elegant. It also has some moisturizing and softening benefits for skin and hair. It’s a common fragrance ingredient that has a light floral smell. It’s one of the “EU 26 fragrances” that has to be labelled separately and cannot be simply included in the term “fragrance/perfume” on the label because of allergen potential. Best to avoid if your skin is one of those things that help your cosmetics not to go wrong too soon, aka a preservative. It can be naturally found in fruits and teas but can also be made synthetically. No matter the origin, in small amounts up to 1% it’s a nice, gentle preservative. Has to be combined with some other nice preservatives, like potassium sorbate to be broad spectrum enough. In high amounts, it can be a skin irritant, but don’t worry, it’s never used in high amounts. You may also want to take a look at... Normal well kind of - it's purified and deionized water. Usually the main solvent in cosmetic products. [more] A real oldie but a goodie. Great natural moisturizer and skin-identical ingredient that plays an important role in skin hydration and general skin health. [more] A 14 carbon length fatty acid that can be naturally found in nutmeg, palm kernel oil, coconut oil and butter fat. It's used as a foam building cleansing agent. [more] A common multi-tasker fatty acid that works as an emollient, thickener and emulsion stabilizer. [more] A fatty acid that can be found naturally in the skin. It can make the skin feel nice and smooth in moisturizers emollient or it can act as a foam building cleansing agent in cleansers. [more] It's a very alkaline stuff that helps to set the pH of the cosmetic formula to be just right. [more] A fatty acid that can be found in coconut milk and human breast milk. It can be used as an emulsifier or as a cleansing agent. There are also promising studies about lauric acid being an effective anti-acne ingredient. [more] An often used glycol that works as a solvent, humectant, penetration enhancer and also gives a good slip to the products. [more] It's a sweet tasting sugar substitute that helps your skin to hold onto water when used in cosmetic products. It also helps to thicken up products and give them a bit more slip. [more] An oily ingredient that can magically blend with water all by itself called Self Emulsifying. Other than that it’s a nice emollient that gives a smooth and soft appearance to the skin. [more] A smallish polymer molecule that is used as a solubilizer and viscosity control agent in cosmetic products. [more] The generic term for nice smelling stuff put into cosmetic products so that the end product also smells nice. It is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on average. [more] CI 77499 or Iron Oxide is a super common colorant with the color black. [more] A super common fragrance ingredient that can be found among others in lavender, ylang-ylang, bergamot or jasmine. The downside of it is that it oxidises on air exposure and might become allergenic. [more] One of the gold standard ingredients for treating problem skin. It can exfoliate skin both on the surface and in the pores and it's a potent anti-inflammatory agent. [more] A helper ingredient that helps to make the products stay nice longer, aka preservative. It works mainly against fungi and has only milder effect against bacteria. It is Ecocert and Cosmos approved, and is popular in natural products. [more] A type of clay that's a fine, white powder and is used for its oil-absorbing and opacifying properties. It's less absorbent and less drying than bentonite clay. [more] Pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, and can be used up to 1% worldwide. [more] A super common fragrance ingredient found naturally in many plants including citrus peel oils, rosemary or lavender. It autoxidizes on air exposure and counts as a common skin sensitizer. [more] A stable and easy to formulate form of skincare superstar, vitamin C. In-vitro studies show that it shows all the three anti-aging benefits antioxidant protection + collagen boosting + fading hyperpigmentation that pure vitamin C does. [more] A helper ingredient that helps to neutralize the metal ions in the formula that usually get into there from water that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes. An AHA that comes from citrus fruits. It is usually used as a helper ingredient to adjust the pH of the formula. [more] Menthol needs no introduction it's the thing that causes the cooling sensation so well-known both from cosmetic products as well as a bunch of other things like chocolate, chewing gum, toothpaste or cigarette. It's a natural compound that comes from the essential oil of Mentha species peppermint oil contains 40-50% menthol and it gives them their typical minty smell a [more] A common fragrance ingredient that smells like jasmine. It is one of the “EU 26 fragrances” that has to be labelled separately because of allergen potential. [more] A vegetable-based, PEG-free ingredient whose job is to help water and oil to mix nicely together emulsifier. It is created by attaching ten water-loving glycerin molecules with the oil-loving fatty acid, stearic acid. [more] It’s a common fragrance ingredient that has a light floral smell. It’s one of the “EU 26 fragrances” that has to be labelled separately and cannot be simply included in the term “fragrance/perfume” [more] It's one of those things that help your cosmetics not to go wrong too soon, aka a preservative. It can be naturally found in fruits and teas but can also be made synthetically. No matter the origin, in small amounts up to 1% it’s a nice, gentle preservative. [more]