
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
Glycerin · Sodium Chloride · Glucose
Pulls water from the air and the layers below into the outer skin layer.See the 2 declared functions
- Draws in and holds moistureHUMECTANT
- Glycerin · Sodium Chloride · Glucose
- Draws moisture into the skinSKIN CONDITIONING - HUMECTANT
- Glycerin
See the 2 declared functions
- Reduces surface roughnessSMOOTHING
- Niacinamide
- Makes skin soft and smoothSKIN CONDITIONING - EMOLLIENT
- Caprylyl Glycol
Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate · Sodium Chloride · Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate · Tocopherol · Bromelain · Papain · Superoxide Dismutase · Maltodextrin · Caprylyl Glycol
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
- Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate · Sodium Chloride · Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate · Bromelain · Papain · Superoxide Dismutase · Maltodextrin · Caprylyl Glycol
- Skin conditioning not covered aboveSKIN CONDITIONING - MISCELLANEOUS
- Tocopherol
Glycerin · Tocopherol · Maltodextrin · Acrylates Crosspolymer-4
Forms a film on the surface against evaporation and outside irritants.See the 3 declared functions
- Leaves a thin film where appliedFILM FORMING
- Maltodextrin · Acrylates Crosspolymer-4
- Protects skin from outside irritantsSKIN PROTECTING
- Glycerin
- Forms a film that stops moisture lossSKIN CONDITIONING - OCCLUSIVE
- Tocopherol
Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate · Tocopherol · Superoxide Dismutase
In CosIng this category also covers keeping the product itself from spoiling.See the 1 declared functions
- Slows spoilage by oxygenANTIOXIDANT
- Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate · Tocopherol · Superoxide Dismutase
Sodium Chloride · Bromelain · Illite
See the 2 declared functions
- Scrubs physicallyABRASIVE
- Sodium Chloride · Illite
- Softens and loosens the outer layerKERATOLYTIC
- Bromelain
Sodium Laurylglucosides Hydroxypropylsulfonate · Coco-Glucoside · Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate · Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate · Acrylates Crosspolymer-4
See the 4 declared functions
- Surfactant that lifts dirtSURFACTANT - CLEANSING
- Coco-Glucoside · Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate · Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate · Acrylates Crosspolymer-4
- Washes away surface impuritiesCLEANSING
- Sodium Laurylglucosides Hydroxypropylsulfonate · Coco-Glucoside · Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate
- Boosts latherSURFACTANT - FOAM BOOSTING
- Sodium Laurylglucosides Hydroxypropylsulfonate · Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate
- Creates foamFOAMING
- Coco-Glucoside
Sodium Laurylglucosides Hydroxypropylsulfonate · Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate · Maltodextrin · Acrylates Crosspolymer-4
Emulsifiers and solubilisers. They build the formula.See the 3 declared functions
- Helps poorly soluble ingredients dissolve in waterSURFACTANT - HYDROTROPE
- Sodium Laurylglucosides Hydroxypropylsulfonate · Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate
- Keeps an emulsion from separatingEMULSION STABILISING
- Maltodextrin · Acrylates Crosspolymer-4
- Mixes and holds oil and water togetherSURFACTANT - EMULSIFYING
- Sodium Laurylglucosides Hydroxypropylsulfonate
Glycerin · Sodium Chloride · Illite · Maltodextrin · Acrylates Crosspolymer-4
Viscosity, solvents and spreadability: how the product feels on the skin.See the 6 declared functions
- Adjusts thicknessVISCOSITY CONTROLLING
- Glycerin · Sodium Chloride · Acrylates Crosspolymer-4
- Adds bulkBULKING
- Sodium Chloride · Illite
- Absorbs water or oilABSORBENT
- Illite · Maltodextrin
- Base that dissolves other ingredientsSOLVENT
- Glycerin
- Stops powders from cakingANTICAKING
- Illite
- Holds powders togetherBINDING
- Maltodextrin
Chlorphenesin · Phenoxyethanol
See the 2 declared functions
- Inhibits microbial growthANTIMICROBIAL
- Chlorphenesin · Phenoxyethanol
- Stops microbes growing in the productPRESERVATIVE
- Chlorphenesin · Phenoxyethanol
Glycerin · Superoxide Dismutase · Citric Acid
Protects the formula from pH drift, metal ions and light. Not a preservative.See the 4 declared functions
- Makes alcohol undrinkableDENATURANT
- Glycerin
- Reduces other ingredientsREDUCING
- Superoxide Dismutase
- Keeps pH steadyBUFFERING
- Citric Acid
- Binds metal ions to prevent spoilageCHELATING
- Citric Acid
Glycerin · Boswellia Carterii Oil · Fragrance (Parfum) · Hydroxycitronellal
See the 2 declared functions
- Gives the product a scentPERFUMING
- Glycerin · Fragrance (Parfum) · Hydroxycitronellal
- Listed as a fragrance-composition material (not a claim that it adds scent)FRAGRANCE
- Boswellia Carterii Oil
See the 1 declared functions
- Listed as giving skin or hair a good feel (vague CosIng category)TONIC
- Boswellia Carterii Oil
See 25 other ingredients · 25 total
- Aqua/Water/Eau
- Sodium Laurylglucosides Hydroxypropylsulfonate
- Coco-Glucoside
- Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate
- Glycerin
- Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate
- Sodium Chloride
- Niacinamide
- Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate
- Tocopherol
- Bromelain
- Papain
- Superoxide Dismutase
- Illite
- Glucose
- Maltodextrin
- Citric Acid
- Caprylyl Glycol
- Boswellia Carterii Oil
- Fragrance (Parfum)
- Chlorphenesin
- Phenoxyethanol
- Acrylates Crosspolymer-4
- Hydroxycitronellal
- Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalen
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.