Face washing bar soap
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Ingredients overview
Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Palmate, Water/Eau/Aqua, Glycerin, Fragrance/Parfum, Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891), Sodium Chloride, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Pentasodium Pentetate, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Honey/Mel, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit/Leaf Extract, Phenoxyethanol, Carrageenan, Methylparaben, Sea Salt, Hexyl Cinnamal, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Citronellol
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Highlights
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Key Ingredients
Antioxidant: Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
Skin-identical ingredient: Glycerin
Soothing: Honey/Mel, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
Other Ingredients
Antimicrobial/antibacterial: Honey/Mel
Chelating: Pentasodium Pentetate, Tetrasodium Etidronate
Colorant: Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891)
Emulsifying: Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Palmate
Moisturizer/humectant: Glycerin, Honey/Mel
Perfuming: Fragrance/Parfum, Hexyl Cinnamal, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Citronellol
Preservative: Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben
Solvent: Water/Eau/Aqua
Surfactant/cleansing: Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Palmate
Viscosity controlling: Sodium Palmate, Sodium Chloride, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Carrageenan
Skim through
| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Cocoate | surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying | ||
| Sodium Palmate | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing, viscosity controlling | ||
| Water/Eau/Aqua | solvent | ||
| Glycerin | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
| Fragrance/Parfum | perfuming | icky | |
| Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891) | colorant | 0, 0 | |
| Sodium Chloride | viscosity controlling | ||
| Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride | viscosity controlling | ||
| Pentasodium Pentetate | chelating | ||
| Tetrasodium Etidronate | chelating, viscosity controlling | ||
| Honey/Mel | soothing, moisturizer/humectant, antimicrobial/antibacterial | goodie | |
| Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract | antioxidant, soothing | goodie | |
| Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit/Leaf Extract | |||
| Phenoxyethanol | preservative | ||
| Carrageenan | viscosity controlling | ||
| Methylparaben | preservative | 0, 0 | |
| Sea Salt | |||
| Hexyl Cinnamal | perfuming | icky | |
| Butylphenyl Methylpropional | perfuming | icky | |
| Citronellol | perfuming | icky |
G&H Protect+ Bar Soap
Ingredients explainedSodium Cocoate
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Sodium Palmate
What-it-does: emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing, viscosity controlling
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Water/Eau/Aqua
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.
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 >>
Fragrance/Parfum - 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!).
Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891)
Also-called: Titanium Dioxide/Ci 77891;Ci 77891 | What-it-does: colorant | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
Ci 77891 is the color code of titaniumdioxide.It's a white pigment with great color consistency and dispersibility.
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.
Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride
What-it-does: viscosity controlling
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Pentasodium Pentetate
What-it-does: chelating
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Tetrasodium Etidronate
What-it-does: chelating, emulsion stabilising, viscosity controlling
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Honey/Mel - goodie
Also-called: Mel;Honey | What-it-does: soothing, moisturizer/humectant, antimicrobial/antibacterial
We all know honey as the sweet, gooey stuff that is lovely to sweeten a good cup of tea and we have good news about putting honey all over our skin. It is just as lovely on the skin as it is in the tea.
The great review article about honey in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology writes that itis arguably the oldest skincare ingredient and evidence from around 4500 BC mentions honey in some eye cream recipes. Chemically speaking, it is a bee-derived, supersaturated sugar solution. About95%ofhoneydry weight is sugar and the other 5% consists of a great number of other minor components including proteins, amino acids, vitamins, enzymes, and minerals.
This unique and complex chemical composition gives honey a bunch of nice skin care properties: it is very moisturizing, has soothing and antioxidant abilities as well as significant antibacterial and antifungal magic powers. There is also a lot of empirical evidence with emerging scientific backup that honey dressing promotes the healing of wounds and burns.
One tricky thing about honey though, is that it can have lots of different floral sources and different types ofhoneyhave a somewhat different composition and thus somewhat different properties. For example,the darker the honey the richer it is in antioxidant phenolic compounds. Two special types of honey areacacia and manuka. The formeris unique and popular because of its higher than usual fructose content that makes it more water-soluble and easier to stabilize incosmetic formulas. The latter comes from the Leptospermum Scoparium tree native to New Zeland and its special thing is its extra strong antibacterial power due to a unique component called methylglyoxal.
Overall, honey is a real skin-goodie in pretty much every shape and form, and it is a nice one to spot on the ingredient list.
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract - goodie
Also-called: Green Tea | What-it-does: antioxidant, soothing
- Green tea is one of the most researched natural ingredients
- The active parts are called polyphenols, or more precisely catechins (EGCG being the most abundant and most active catechin)
- There can be huge quality differences between green tea extracts. The good ones contain 50-90% catechins (and often make the product brown and give it a distinctive smell)
- Green tea is proven to be a great antioxidant, UV protectant, anti-inflammatory, anticarcinogenic and antimicrobial
- Because of these awesome properties green tea is a great choice for anti-aging and also for skin diseases including rosacea, acne and atopic dermatitis
Read all the geeky details about Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract here >>
Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit/Leaf Extract
What-it-does: astringent
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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.
Carrageenan
What-it-does: viscosity controlling
A natural polysaccharide(big sugar molecule) coming fromred edible seaweeds. It isused as a helper ingredientfor itsgelling, thickening and stabilizing properties.
Methylparaben
What-it-does: preservative | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
The most common type offeared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason parabens. It's a cheap, effective and well-tolerated ingredient to make sure the cosmetic formula does not go wrong too soon.
Apart from the general controversy around parabens (we wrote about it more here), there is a 2006 in-vitro (made in the lab not on real people) research about methylparaben (MP) showing that when exposed to sunlight, MP treated skin cells suffered more harm than non-MPtreated skin cells. The study was not done with real people on real skin but still - using a good sunscreen next to MP containing productsis a good idea. (Well, in fact using a sunscreen is always a good idea. :))
Sea Salt
Also-called: Maris Sal
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Hexyl Cinnamal - icky
What-it-does: perfuming
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.
Butylphenyl Methylpropional - icky
Also-called: Lilial | What-it-does: perfuming
A common fragrance ingredient that has a nice floral scent and also goes by the name Lilial. It is a known fragrance allergen and as of 1st of March 2022, it has been banned in the EU due to animal studies showing a possible link to infertility (in rats - so no need to panic even if you used a product before with Butylphenyl Methylpropional).
Citronellol - icky
What-it-does: perfuming
Citronellol is a very common fragrance ingredient with a nice rose-like odor. In the UK, it’s actually the third most often listed perfume on the ingredient lists.
It can be naturally found in geranium oil (about 30%) or rose oil (about 25%).
As with all fragrance ingredients, citronellol can also cause allergic contact dermatitis and should be avoided if you have perfume allergy. In a 2001 worldwide study with 178 people with known sensitization to fragrances citronellol tested positive in 5.6% of the cases.
There is no known anti-aging or positive skin benefits of the ingredient. It’s in our products to make it smell nice.
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