Ingredients
Full ingredient list as published on the official product page, in descending order of content.
Ingredient overview
Counts show formula structure, not concentration, clinical efficacy, or a safety score.
What the ingredients do
See the 2 declared functions
- Draws in and holds moistureHUMECTANT
- Glycerin · Propylene Glycol
- Draws moisture into the skinSKIN CONDITIONING - HUMECTANT
- Glycerin · Propylene Glycol
See the 1 declared functions
- Makes skin soft and smoothSKIN CONDITIONING - EMOLLIENT
- Caprylyl Glycol
Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn/Agrousier) Fruit/Seed Oil · Hydrolyzed Linseed Extract · Glycine Soja (Soybean) Germ Extract · Panthenol · Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein · Tocopherol · Propylene Glycol · Ethylhexylglycerin · Caprylyl Glycol · Hexylene Glycol · Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalenes
CosIng's broadest category. On its own it does not say what the ingredient does.See the 2 declared functions
- Keeps skin in good condition (CosIng catch-all)SKIN CONDITIONING
- Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn/Agrousier) Fruit/Seed Oil · Hydrolyzed Linseed Extract · Panthenol · Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein · Ethylhexylglycerin · Caprylyl Glycol · Hexylene Glycol
- Skin conditioning not covered aboveSKIN CONDITIONING - MISCELLANEOUS
- Glycine Soja (Soybean) Germ Extract · Tocopherol · Propylene Glycol · Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalenes
Glycerin · Tapioca Starch · Tocopherol
Forms a film on the surface against evaporation and outside irritants.See the 2 declared functions
- Protects skin from outside irritantsSKIN PROTECTING
- Glycerin · Tapioca Starch
- Forms a film that stops moisture lossSKIN CONDITIONING - OCCLUSIVE
- Tocopherol
See the 1 declared functions
- Slows spoilage by oxygenANTIOXIDANT
- Tocopherol
See the 1 declared functions
- Scrubs physicallyABRASIVE
- Tapioca Starch
Polysorbate 20 · Trideceth-3 · Trideceth-15 · Hexylene Glycol
See the 3 declared functions
- Surfactant that lifts dirtSURFACTANT - CLEANSING
- Polysorbate 20 · Trideceth-3 · Trideceth-15 · Hexylene Glycol
- Washes away surface impuritiesCLEANSING
- Trideceth-15
- Creates foamFOAMING
- Trideceth-15
Polysorbate 20 · Amodimethicone · Cetrimonium Chloride · Trideceth-3 · Trideceth-15 · Hexylene Glycol
Emulsifiers and solubilisers. They build the formula.See the 1 declared functions
- Mixes and holds oil and water togetherSURFACTANT - EMULSIFYING
- Polysorbate 20 · Amodimethicone · Cetrimonium Chloride · Trideceth-3 · Trideceth-15 · Hexylene Glycol
Glycerin · Tapioca Starch · Propylene Glycol · Isopropyl Alcohol · Hexylene Glycol · Benzyl Benzoate · Limonene
Viscosity, solvents and spreadability: how the product feels on the skin.See the 7 declared functions
- Base that dissolves other ingredientsSOLVENT
- Glycerin · Propylene Glycol · Isopropyl Alcohol · Hexylene Glycol · Benzyl Benzoate · Limonene
- Adjusts thicknessVISCOSITY CONTROLLING
- Glycerin · Tapioca Starch · Propylene Glycol · Isopropyl Alcohol
- Stops powders from cakingANTICAKING
- Tapioca Starch
- Holds powders togetherBINDING
- Tapioca Starch
- Adds bulkBULKING
- Tapioca Starch
- Absorbs water or oilABSORBENT
- Tapioca Starch
- Removes unwanted foamANTIFOAMING
- Isopropyl Alcohol
See the 1 declared functions
- Makes a clear formula opaqueOPACIFYING
- Tapioca Starch
Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn/Agrousier) Fruit/Seed Oil · Behentrimonium Chloride · Cetrimonium Chloride · Phenoxyethanol · Sodium Benzoate · Benzyl Benzoate
See the 2 declared functions
- Inhibits microbial growthANTIMICROBIAL
- Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn/Agrousier) Fruit/Seed Oil · Cetrimonium Chloride · Phenoxyethanol · Benzyl Benzoate
- Stops microbes growing in the productPRESERVATIVE
- Behentrimonium Chloride · Cetrimonium Chloride · Phenoxyethanol · Sodium Benzoate
Glycerin · Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate · Citric Acid · Acetic Acid · Sodium Benzoate
Protects the formula from pH drift, metal ions and light. Not a preservative.See the 4 declared functions
- Binds metal ions to prevent spoilageCHELATING
- Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate · Citric Acid
- Keeps pH steadyBUFFERING
- Citric Acid · Acetic Acid
- Makes alcohol undrinkableDENATURANT
- Glycerin
- Prevents corrosion of packaging and equipmentANTICORROSIVE
- Sodium Benzoate
Glycerin · Isopropyl Alcohol · Hexylene Glycol · Benzyl Benzoate · Hydroxycitronellal · Limonene · Citronellol · Coumarin · Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalenes · Vanillin
See the 2 declared functions
- Gives the product a scentPERFUMING
- Glycerin · Isopropyl Alcohol · Hexylene Glycol · Benzyl Benzoate · Hydroxycitronellal · Limonene · Citronellol · Coumarin · Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalenes
- Listed as a fragrance-composition material (not a claim that it adds scent)FRAGRANCE
- Vanillin
See the 2 declared functions
- Softens hairHAIR CONDITIONING
- Quaternium-80
- Reduces staticANTISTATIC
- Quaternium-80
See 34 other ingredients · 34 total
- Water/Eau/Aqua
- Glycerin
- Polysorbate 20
- Amodimethicone
- Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn/Agrousier) Fruit/Seed Oil
- Hydrolyzed Linseed Extract
- Glycine Soja (Soybean) Germ Extract
- Tapioca Starch
- Panthenol
- Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein
- Tocopherol
- Quaternium-80
- Propylene Glycol
- Behentrimonium Chloride
- Cetrimonium Chloride
- Trideceth-3
- Trideceth-15
- Ethylhexylglycerin
- Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate
- Isopropyl Alcohol
- Citric Acid
- Acetic Acid
- Phenoxyethanol
- Sodium Benzoate
- Caprylyl Glycol
- Hexylene Glycol
- Fragrance/Parfum
- Benzyl Benzoate
- Hydroxycitronellal
- Limonene
- Citronellol
- Coumarin
- Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalenes
- Vanillin
Declared fragrance allergens
The label marks these as fragrance allergens that must be declared. They are not impurities, and most people do not react to them.
Benzyl Benzoate · Hydroxycitronellal · Limonene · Citronellol · Coumarin