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Ingredients overview
Aqua (Water)/Eau, Sodium Coco-Sulfate, Glycerin, Lauryl Glucoside, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Rosa Damascena (Rose) Flower Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Oil, Parfum (Fragrance), PEG-90 Glyceryl Isostearate, Laureth-2, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Sodium Chloride, Citric Acid, Potassium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Geraniol, Rose Ketone-4
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Highlights
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Key Ingredients
Antioxidant: Rosa Damascena (Rose) Flower Oil
Skin-identical ingredient: Glycerin
Other Ingredients
Antimicrobial/antibacterial: Rosa Damascena (Rose) Flower Oil
Buffering: Citric Acid
Chelating: Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate
Emollient: Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Oil
Emulsifying: Sodium Coco-Sulfate, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Laureth-2
Moisturizer/humectant: Glycerin
Perfuming: Rosa Damascena (Rose) Flower Oil, Parfum (Fragrance), Geraniol, Rose Ketone-4
Preservative: Potassium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate
Solvent: Aqua (Water)/Eau
Surfactant/cleansing: Sodium Coco-Sulfate, Lauryl Glucoside, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, PEG-90 Glyceryl Isostearate, Laureth-2
Viscosity controlling: Sodium Chloride
Skim through
| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua (Water)/Eau | solvent | ||
| Sodium Coco-Sulfate | surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying | ||
| Glycerin | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
| Lauryl Glucoside | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Cocamidopropyl Betaine | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Rosa Damascena (Rose) Flower Oil | antioxidant, perfuming, antimicrobial/antibacterial | icky | |
| Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Oil | emollient | ||
| Parfum (Fragrance) | perfuming | icky | |
| PEG-90 Glyceryl Isostearate | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Laureth-2 | surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying | ||
| Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate | chelating | ||
| Sodium Chloride | viscosity controlling | ||
| Citric Acid | buffering | ||
| Potassium Benzoate | preservative | ||
| Potassium Sorbate | preservative | ||
| Geraniol | perfuming | icky | |
| Rose Ketone-4 | perfuming |
Panier des sens Showergel Rose Essential Oil
Ingredients explainedAqua (Water)/Eau
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.
Sodium Coco-Sulfate
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Glycerin - superstar
Also-called: Glycerol | What-it-does: skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
- 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
Read all the geeky details about Glycerin here >>
Lauryl Glucoside
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing
A 100% vegetable origin, biodegradable, mild cleansing agent that givesmoderate to high amount of foam. It's happy to work together with other surfactants (in general, that helps to create milder formulas).
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing
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.
PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil
What-it-does: emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing
A castor oil derived, white, lard-like helper ingredient that is used as a solubilizer to put fragrances (those are oil loving things) into water-based products such as toners.
Rosa Damascena (Rose) Flower Oil - icky
Also-called: Damask Rose Flower Oil | What-it-does: antioxidant, perfuming, antimicrobial/antibacterial
We are big fans of all kinds of roses as ornamental plants but when it comes to skincare, it is a mixed bag. Before we list out the good and the not so good, here isan interesting thing.
The oil content in rose is very, very low so distilling rose essential oil requires huge amounts of rose flowers. It has such a wonderful scent that there are no comparable synthetic alternatives. You can probably guess that this means rose essential oil is expensive.... very very expensive.
So the good things: thanks to its wonderful scent the high-end perfume industry loves rose oil. Also, we (humans :)) love rose oil. We love its scent so much that it can heal headaches, depression, stress, and even grief.
Rose oil contains more than 95 compounds, among them flavonoids, anthocyanins, vitamin C, and quercetin that are all known for their medicinal properties and great antioxidant effects. Similar to many other essential oils, it has antimicrobialproperties too.
Now, the not-so-good thing? Out of the 95 compounds, the major ones are citronellol and geraniol,fragrant components that might irritate sensitive skin.
Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Oil
What-it-does: emollient
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Parfum (Fragrance) - icky
Also-called: Fragrance, Parfum;Parfum/Fragrance | 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!).
PEG-90 Glyceryl Isostearate
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Laureth-2
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate
What-it-does: chelating
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Sodium Chloride
Also-called: Salt | What-it-does: viscosity controlling
Sodium chloride is the fancy name of salt. Normal, everyday table salt.
If (similar to us) you are in the weird habit of reading the label on your shower gel while taking a shower, you might have noticed that sodium chloride is almost always on the ingredient list. The reason for this is that salt acts as a fantastic thickener in cleansing formulas created with ionic cleansing agents(aka surfactants) such as Sodium Laureth Sulfate. A couple of percents (typically 1-3%) turns a runny surfactant solution into a nice gel texture.
If you are into chemistry (if not, we understand, just skip this paragraph), the reason is that electrolytes (you know, the Na+ and Cl- ions) screen the electrostatic repulsion between the head groups of ionic surfactants and thus support the formation of long shaped micelles (instead of spherical ones) that entangle like spaghetti, and viola, a gel is formed. However, too much of it causes the phenomenon called "salting out", and the surfactant solution goes runny again.
Other than that, salt also works as an emulsion stabilizer inwater-in-oil emulsions, that is when water droplets are dispersed in the outer oil (or silicone) phase. And last but not least, when salt is right at the first spot of the ingredient list (and is not dissolved), the product is usually a body scrub where salt is thephysical exfoliating agent.
Citric Acid
What-it-does: buffering
Citric 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 monthsand 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.
Potassium Benzoate
What-it-does: preservative
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Potassium Sorbate
What-it-does: preservative
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 preservativeand even has an E number, E202.
Geraniol - icky
What-it-does: perfuming
Geraniol is a common fragrance ingredient. It smells like rose and can be found in rose oil or in small quantities in geranium, lemon and many other essential oils.
Just like other similar fragrance ingredients (like linalool and limonene) geraniol also oxidises on air exposure and becomes allergenic. Best to avoid if you have sensitive skin.
Rose Ketone-4
What-it-does: perfuming
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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