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Glycerin
cosmetic
Glycerin doesn’t sound very glamorous but it is a real oldie but a goodie . It’s been used in cosmetics for more than  50 years and it’s a totally natural ingredient that’s also in the outermost layer of our skin (called stratum corneum - SC). It’s a so-called humectant type of moisturiser meaning that it helps our ski...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 1 Ingredient Name = Glycerin Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Glycerin doesn’t sound very glamorous but it is a real oldie but a goodie . It’s been used in cosmetics for more than  50 yea...
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Butylene Glycol
cosmetic
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), mak...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 2 Ingredient Name = Butylene Glycol Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating...
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Squalene
cosmetic
Squalene is an oily liquid that originally comes from shark liver but luckily it can also be found in a couple of plant oils. Olive (0.6%), peanut (0.1%) and pumpkin (0.35%) oils contain it, though not in huge amounts. What contains more of it, is the sebum (the oily stuff) that our skin produces. About 13% of human se...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 3 Ingredient Name = Squalene Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Squalene is an oily liquid that originally comes from shark liver but luckily it can also be found in a couple of plant oils....
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Ceteareth-20
cosmetic
A common functional ingredient that helps to keep the oil-loving and water-loving ingredients together (emulsifier), stabilizes and thickens the products. Chemically speaking, it is ethoxylated Cetearyl alcohol , meaning that some ethylene oxide is added to the fatty alcohol to increase the water-soluble part in the mo...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 4 Ingredient Name = Ceteareth-20 Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: A common functional ingredient that helps to keep the oil-loving and water-loving ingredients together (emulsifier), stab...
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Glyceryl Stearate
cosmetic
A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth . Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid called stearic acid . It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fatty ...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 5 Ingredient Name = Glyceryl Stearate Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves t...
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Glyceryl Stearate SE
cosmetic
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 inc...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 6 Ingredient Name = Glyceryl Stearate SE Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: An oily kind of ingredient that can magically blend with water all by itself. This is called self-emulsifying and...
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Potassium Sorbate
cosmetic
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 ...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 7 Ingredient Name = Potassium Sorbate Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: It's one of those things that help your cosmetics not to go wrong too soon , aka a preservative. It’s not a strong o...
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Caprylyl Glycol
cosmetic
It’s a handy multi-tasking ingredient that gives the skin a nice, soft feel . At the same time, it also boosts the effectiveness of other preservatives , such as the nowadays super commonly used phenoxyethanol . The blend of these two (caprylyl glycol + phenoxyethanol) is called Optiphen, which not only helps to keep y...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 8 Ingredient Name = Caprylyl Glycol Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: It’s a handy multi-tasking ingredient that gives the skin a nice, soft feel . At the same time, it also boosts the eff...
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Squalane
cosmetic
It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated  (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 9 Ingredient Name = Squalane Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated  (no double b...
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Xanthan Gum
cosmetic
It's one of the most commonly used thickener s and emulsion stabilizers . If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like. Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-called rheology modifiers (helper ingredi...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 10 Ingredient Name = Xanthan Gum Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: It's one of the most commonly used thickener s and emulsion stabilizers . If the product is too runny, a little xanthan g...
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Phenoxyethanol
cosmetic
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 ...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 11 Ingredient Name = Phenoxyethanol Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: It’s pretty much the current IT- preservative . It’s safe and gentle , but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by...
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Sodium Hydroxide
cosmetic
The unfancy name for it is lye. It’s a solid white stuff that’s very alkaline and used in small amounts to adjust the pH of the product and make it just right. For example, in case of AHA or BHA exfoliants, the right pH is super-duper important, and pH adjusters like sodium hydroxide are needed. BTW, lye is not somethi...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 12 Ingredient Name = Sodium Hydroxide Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: The unfancy name for it is lye. It’s a solid white stuff that’s very alkaline and used in small amounts to adjust th...
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Ethoxydiglycol
cosmetic
A nice odorless liquid used mainly as a superior solubilizer and efficacy booster for cosmetic active ingredients such as skincare bigshot vitamin C , self-tanning active DHA or the anti-acne gold standard, benzoyl peroxide . Other than that it can also be used in hair care products where it gives a longer-lasting and ...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 13 Ingredient Name = Ethoxydiglycol Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: A nice odorless liquid used mainly as a superior solubilizer and efficacy booster for cosmetic active ingredients such...
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Carbomer
cosmetic
A big molecule created from repeated subunits (a polymer of acrylic acid) that magically converts a liquid into a nice gel formula .  It usually has to be neutralized with a base (such as sodium hydroxide ) for the thickening to occur and it creates viscous, clear gels that also feel nice and non-tacky on the skin. No ...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 14 Ingredient Name = Carbomer Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: A big molecule created from repeated subunits (a polymer of acrylic acid) that magically converts a liquid into a nice gel f...
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Hyaluronic Acid
cosmetic
Hyaluronic acid (HA) and its various forms are the current IT-moisturizer s. So let’s see, what is hyaluronic acid and even more importantly what’s the big deal about it? HA is a nice big sugar molecule from repeated subunits (polymer) that can be found naturally in our body . It’s the most dominant, and most important...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 15 Ingredient Name = Hyaluronic Acid Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Hyaluronic acid (HA) and its various forms are the current IT-moisturizer s. So let’s see, what is hyaluronic acid an...
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Centella Asiatica Extract
cosmetic
Centella Asiatica - or sometimes also called Gotu Kola or Cica - has been used in folk medicine for hundreds of years. It’s traditionally used to improve small wounds , burns and scratches and it’s also a well known anti-inflammatory agent for eczema. Recently science has taken an interest in Gotu Kola as well and it t...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 16 Ingredient Name = Centella Asiatica Extract Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Centella Asiatica - or sometimes also called Gotu Kola or Cica - has been used in folk medicine for hundred...
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Triethanolamine
cosmetic
It’s a little helper ingredient that helps to set the pH of a cosmetic formulation to be just right. It’s very alkaline (you know the opposite of being very acidic): a 1% solution has a pH of around 10. It does not have the very best safety reputation but in general, you do not have to worry about it. What is true is t...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 17 Ingredient Name = Triethanolamine Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: It’s a little helper ingredient that helps to set the pH of a cosmetic formulation to be just right. It’s very alkali...
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Lactic Acid
cosmetic
Lactic acid is the second most well-known and most well researched among the AHAs . The no. 1 is glycolic acid. If you're new to AHAs we strongly suggest that you head over to our description about glycolic acid . There you will find a super detailed geeky description and many of the things we wrote are true to all AHA...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 18 Ingredient Name = Lactic Acid Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Lactic acid is the second most well-known and most well researched among the AHAs . The no. 1 is glycolic acid. If you're...
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Ascorbic Acid
cosmetic
If Vit C was a person it would be someone like Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez or Mariah Carey. Serious performance, A-list superstar but at the same time shows some major divaish behaviour. But before we dive into it let’s just take a quick look where Vit C comes from. By the 18th century sailors noticed that if they eat plen...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 19 Ingredient Name = Ascorbic Acid Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: If Vit C was a person it would be someone like Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez or Mariah Carey. Serious performance, A-list sup...
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Ferulic Acid
cosmetic
Ferulic Acid (FA) is a goodie that can be found naturally in plant cell walls. There is a lot of it especially in the bran of grasses such as rice, wheat and oats. FA - whose main job is to be an antioxidant - owes its fame to a 2005 research that discovered that adding in 0.5% FA to a 15% Vitamin C + 1% Vitamin E solu...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 20 Ingredient Name = Ferulic Acid Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Ferulic Acid (FA) is a goodie that can be found naturally in plant cell walls. There is a lot of it especially in the br...
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Limonene
cosmetic
A super common and cheap fragrance ingredient . It's in many plants, e.g. rosemary, eucalyptus, lavender, lemongrass, peppermint and it's the main component (about 50-90%) of the peel oil of citrus fruits. It does smell nice but the problem is that it oxidizes on air exposure and the resulting stuff is not good for the...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 21 Ingredient Name = Limonene Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: A super common and cheap fragrance ingredient . It's in many plants, e.g. rosemary, eucalyptus, lavender, lemongrass, pepper...
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Panthenol
cosmetic
An easy-to-formulate, commonly used, nice to have ingredient that’s also called pro-vitamin B5. As you might guess from the “pro” part, it’s a precursor to vitamin B5 (whose fancy name is pantothenic acid). Its main job in skincare products is to moisturise the skin . It’s a humectant meaning that it can help the skin ...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 22 Ingredient Name = Panthenol Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: An easy-to-formulate, commonly used, nice to have ingredient that’s also called pro-vitamin B5. As you might guess from the...
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Opuntia Ficus-Indica Extract
cosmetic
Prickly pear is a cactus that’s native to Mexico. It has large, sweet fruit that’s called tunas and has been used as a source of food since pre-Hispanic Mexico. Currently jams and jellies are produced from it and also a traditional Mexican alcoholic drink called colonche . But what is it doing in our skincare products?...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 23 Ingredient Name = Opuntia Ficus-Indica Extract Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Prickly pear is a cactus that’s native to Mexico. It has large, sweet fruit that’s called tunas and has ...
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Glycolic Acid
cosmetic
Unless you have avoided every bit of skin care info out there so far (in this case special welcome to you! :)) you must have heard of glycolic acid. Or at least about AHA s or to put it even more nice-sounding fruit acids . AHAs (alpha-hydroxy acids) stand for a whole group of ingredients and glycolic acid is one of th...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 24 Ingredient Name = Glycolic Acid Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Unless you have avoided every bit of skin care info out there so far (in this case special welcome to you! :)) you must...
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Linalool
cosmetic
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 li...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 25 Ingredient Name = Linalool Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Linalool is a super common fragrance ingredient. It’s kind of everywhere - both in plants and in cosmetic products. It’s par...
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Tocopherol
cosmetic
Vitamin E is the major fat-soluble antioxidant in our skin . As a strong antioxidant it’s an A-player in protecting the skin cells from the nasty little things called free-radicals that want to destroy the lovely collagen that makes our skin nice and firm. Because it’s fat soluble our skin just loves to absorb it (as o...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 26 Ingredient Name = Tocopherol Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Vitamin E is the major fat-soluble antioxidant in our skin . As a strong antioxidant it’s an A-player in protecting the sk...
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Biosaccharide Gum-1
cosmetic
Biosaccharide Gum-1 is a pretty interesting kind of sugar ingredient that is created from sorbitol via bacterial fermentation. According to the manufacturer it’s a “S.M.A.R.T.” sugar : it has Soothing, Moisturizing, Anti-aging, Restructuring and Touch properties. Let’s look at them quickly one by one. Soothing : the ma...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 27 Ingredient Name = Biosaccharide Gum-1 Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Biosaccharide Gum-1 is a pretty interesting kind of sugar ingredient that is created from sorbitol via bacterial ...
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Beta-Glucan
cosmetic
Beta-Glucan is a nice big molecule composed of many smaller sugar molecules (called polysaccharide). It’s in the cell walls of yeast, some mushrooms, seaweeds, and cereals. It’s a real goodie no matter if you eat it or put it on your face. Eating it is anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, and even lowers blood cholesterol. Putt...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 28 Ingredient Name = Beta-Glucan Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Beta-Glucan is a nice big molecule composed of many smaller sugar molecules (called polysaccharide). It’s in the cell wal...
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Lactococcus Ferment Lysate
cosmetic
Lactococcus Ferment Lysate is a fairly new probiotic ingredient that is obtained from the Gram-positive bacteria, Lactococcus lactis. The lysate is a fluid substance that is produced when you break down the cell membrane, which means it contains interesting things including cytoplasm and cell wall fragments. According ...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 29 Ingredient Name = Lactococcus Ferment Lysate Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Lactococcus Ferment Lysate is a fairly new probiotic ingredient that is obtained from the Gram-positive ba...
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Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Extract
cosmetic
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (SC)  is the fancy name for common baker’s yeast. Usually different kind of yeast extracts are used in skincare for their great hydrating, and general skin conditioning properties. We could find one research paper to back this up: It has found that SC indeed increases skin moisture and had impr...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 30 Ingredient Name = Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Extract Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Saccharomyces cerevisiae (SC)  is the fancy name for common baker’s yeast. Usually different kind of...
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Water
cosmetic
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....
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Ingredient Index_Id = 31 Ingredient Name = Water Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Good old water, aka H2O. The most common skincare ingredient of all. You can usually find it right in the very first spot of th...
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Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate
cosmetic
Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate is the fancy name of a liquidy, almost-water-like stuff that you get by fermenting and filtering yeast. According to manufacturer info it’s rich in all kinds of good-for-your-skin things : essential minerals, amino acids, beta-glucan and vitamins. It’s definitely great for skin moisturiza...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 32 Ingredient Name = Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate is the fancy name of a liquidy, almost-water-like stuff that you get by...
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Citronellol
cosmetic
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 conta...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 33 Ingredient Name = Citronellol Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Citronellol is a very common fragrance ingredient with a nice rose-like odor . In the UK, it’s actually the third most of...
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Bifida Ferment Lysate
cosmetic
Bifida Ferment Lysate is a probiotic ingredient that’s used in one of the most iconic serums in the world, the Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair. Based on manufacturer info it potently protects against UV-induced damage in the skin and helps with DNA repair. An Estee Lauder patent from 2009 also talks about DNA repair...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 34 Ingredient Name = Bifida Ferment Lysate Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Bifida Ferment Lysate is a probiotic ingredient that’s used in one of the most iconic serums in the world, the ...
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Acrylates/​C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
cosmetic
Though its long name does not reveal it, this polymer molecule (big molecule from repeated subunits or monomers) is a relative to the super common, water-loving thickener, Carbomer . Both of them are big molecules that contain acrylic acid units, but Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer also contains some other...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 35 Ingredient Name = Acrylates/​C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Though its long name does not reveal it, this polymer molecule (big molecule from repea...
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Sodium Hyaluronate
cosmetic
It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF , hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here .  The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to h...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 36 Ingredient Name = Sodium Hyaluronate Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF , hyaluronic acid (HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have...
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Azelaic Acid
cosmetic
Azelaic acid is a superstar acid with some serious magic properties. Before we list them out here's just a short intro. Azelaic acid is a so-called carboxylic acid. It’s not an AHA or BHA but a distant relative to them (all being carboxylic acids). It can be found naturally in wheat, rye, and barley. Magic property no....
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Ingredient Index_Id = 37 Ingredient Name = Azelaic Acid Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Azelaic acid is a superstar acid with some serious magic properties. Before we list them out here's just a short intro. ...
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Propylene Glycol
cosmetic
Propylene Glycol (PG) is a colorless liquid, whose main job, usually, is to improve the so-called freeze-thaw stability of the products. This means that it makes sure that a product doesn’t freeze or melt in low or high temperatures. To achieve this, small amounts - usually less than 2% - is used. Other functions of PG...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 38 Ingredient Name = Propylene Glycol Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Propylene Glycol (PG) is a colorless liquid, whose main job, usually, is to improve the so-called freeze-thaw stabil...
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Salicylic Acid
cosmetic
If you have ever struggled with let’s just call it “problem skin” (you know, acne, blackheads, whiteheads, large pores) then most probably you are familiar with salicylic acid (SA). Even if the name does not ring a bell, you have probably used it. Next to benzoyl peroxide, it’s the gold standard ingredient for treating...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 39 Ingredient Name = Salicylic Acid Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: If you have ever struggled with let’s just call it “problem skin” (you know, acne, blackheads, whiteheads, large pores...
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Parfum/​Fragrance
cosmetic
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 t...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 40 Ingredient Name = Parfum/​Fragrance Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Exactly what it sounds: nice smelling stuff put into cosmetic products so that the end product also smells nice. Fr...
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Palmitoyl Grapevine Shoot Extract
cosmetic
It’s a grape-derived ingredient that’s exclusive to French grape-centered skincare brand, Caudalie. Because of this there is not much independent info on it, but the brand claims that this is a very effective ingredient for fading brown spots . The Radiance Serum that contains it (and it does not contain any other skin...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 41 Ingredient Name = Palmitoyl Grapevine Shoot Extract Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: It’s a grape-derived ingredient that’s exclusive to French grape-centered skincare brand, Caudalie....
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Cucumis Sativus Fruit Extract
cosmetic
Cucumber is a nice, non-irritating plant extract that’s known for it’s soothing and emollient properties. It’s not something new to put it on our face: even Cleopatra used it to “preserve her skin”. It’s commonly believed that cucumber is the answer to puffy eyes, but there is no research confirming this. What research...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 42 Ingredient Name = Cucumis Sativus Fruit Extract Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Cucumber is a nice, non-irritating plant extract that’s known for it’s soothing and emollient propertie...
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Citric Acid
cosmetic
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 mo...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 43 Ingredient Name = Citric Acid Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Citric acid comes from citrus fruits and is an AHA. If these magic three letters don’t tell you anything, click here and ...
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Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
cosmetic
We will tell you straight away that we are big green tea fans. Drinking it and slathering it all over your face are both great ideas. But as this is INCIDecoder and not a find-out-what’s-healthy-to-drink site we will now just focus on why you should put it on your face. Our first reason is that green tea does not only ...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 44 Ingredient Name = Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: We will tell you straight away that we are big green tea fans. Drinking it and slathering it all over ...
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Rubus Idaeus Fruit Extract
cosmetic
Raspberry is one of the colorful berries that’s not only delicious but contains many biologically active, healthy compounds. It has polyphenols including anthocyanins and ellagitannins that have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. According to skin care expert Paula Begoun , it’s antibacterial as well but due...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 45 Ingredient Name = Rubus Idaeus Fruit Extract Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Raspberry is one of the colorful berries that’s not only delicious but contains many biologically active, ...
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Sclerocarya Birrea Seed Oil
cosmetic
If you have an interest in elephants and Africa, you have probably heard of elephants getting drunk from the fruit of the Marula tree. Though this seems to be only a legend , what is true is that the Marula fruit is really nice (and elephants do love to eat it) and there is a stone in it with several oil-rich kernels i...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 46 Ingredient Name = Sclerocarya Birrea Seed Oil Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: If you have an interest in elephants and Africa, you have probably heard of elephants getting drunk from...
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Vitis Vinifera Juice Extract
cosmetic
It's a liquid extract coming from grape. According to manufacturer info , it's a skin peeling agent, aka exfoliant , that contains a nice mix of AHA acids (if those magic three letters do not tell you anything, you must click here now .) About 40% of the extract is a mix of tartaric, malic , lactic , citric and gluconi...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 47 Ingredient Name = Vitis Vinifera Juice Extract Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: It's a liquid extract coming from grape. According to manufacturer info , it's a skin peeling agent, aka...
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Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
cosmetic
It's a special "cross-linked" from of IT-moisturizer, hyaluronic acid (HA). Cross-linked means that "normal" HA pieces (1-2 million Da molecular weight) are chemically bound togeather to create a big, "infinite" mesh. The special HA mesh has a remarkable water-binding capacity, 5 times more than the already crazy water...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 48 Ingredient Name = Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: It's a special "cross-linked" from of IT-moisturizer, hyaluronic acid (HA). Cross-linked means that "...
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Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice
cosmetic
Aloe Vera is one of today’s magic plants. It does have some very nice properties indeed, though famous dermatologist Leslie Baumann warns us in her book that most of the evidence is anecdotal and the plant might be a bit overhyped. What research does confirm about Aloe is that it’s a great moisturizer and has several a...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 49 Ingredient Name = Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Aloe Vera is one of today’s magic plants. It does have some very nice properties indeed, though famous de...
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Aesculus Hippocastanum Seed Extract
cosmetic
Horse Chestnut is an often-used ingredient thanks to a couple of nice magic properties. It contains the active ingredient called escin that helps to maintain healthy blood circulation and strengthen capillaries . This makes horse chestnut useful for rosacea-prone skin and it’s also often used in toners for a fresh skin...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 50 Ingredient Name = Aesculus Hippocastanum Seed Extract Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Horse Chestnut is an often-used ingredient thanks to a couple of nice magic properties. It contai...
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Buddleja Davidii Meristem Cell Culture
cosmetic
The extract of summer lilac or  butterfly-bush in itself is a nice ingredient with some antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and the manufacturer claims that the meristem cell culture is even better. It contains among others verbascoside and isoverbascoside that have not only antioxidant and anti-inflammatory b...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 51 Ingredient Name = Buddleja Davidii Meristem Cell Culture Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: The extract of summer lilac or  butterfly-bush in itself is a nice ingredient with some antiox...
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Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi Leaf Extract
cosmetic
Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi is a little plant with nice red berries that lives in the North and is also called bearberry or kinnikinnick. According to Wikipedia the uva-ursi part means “grape of the bear”. As for skincare bearberry is interesting because it contains the well-known skin lightening agent arbutin . The leaves...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 52 Ingredient Name = Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi Leaf Extract Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi is a little plant with nice red berries that lives in the North and is a...
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Niacinamide
cosmetic
Niacinamide, or as us normal people call it vitamin B3, is a real skincare superstar that has had so many studies and has so many skin benefits that we have to warn you that this "geeky details" description will not be short. Just as an intro a couple of thing about the stuff itself: it's a water-soluble vitamin that u...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 53 Ingredient Name = Niacinamide Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Niacinamide, or as us normal people call it vitamin B3, is a real skincare superstar that has had so many studies and has...
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Hamamelis Virginiana Leaf Extract
cosmetic
The extract created from the leaves of the hazelnut-bush-like-magic-tree, commonly called Witch Hazel. We have gone into detail about Witch Hazel in cosmetic products here (it's astringent, soothing, antioxidant and antibacterial), but the important part to know about the leaves is that they contain much, much less act...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 54 Ingredient Name = Hamamelis Virginiana Leaf Extract Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: The extract created from the leaves of the hazelnut-bush-like-magic-tree, commonly called Witch Ha...
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Galactoarabinan
cosmetic
Galactoarabinan is a natural polysaccharide (a big carbohydrate molecule) that comes from the Larch trees. According to the manufacturer it can do all kinds of good in a formula: it can reduce trans-epidermal-water-loss (a fancy way of saying that it's moisturizing ), improve the appearance of skin’s superficial fine l...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 55 Ingredient Name = Galactoarabinan Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Galactoarabinan is a natural polysaccharide (a big carbohydrate molecule) that comes from the Larch trees. According ...
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Adenosine
cosmetic
Adenosine is an important little compound in our body that has a vital cell-signalling role . Research on smearing it on our face is also promising and shows so far a couple of things: It can help with wound healing It’s a good anti-inflammatory agent It might even help with skin’s own collagen production and improve s...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 56 Ingredient Name = Adenosine Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Adenosine is an important little compound in our body that has a vital cell-signalling role . Research on smearing it on ou...
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Urea
cosmetic
Yes, it's the thing that can be found naturally in pee. And in the skin. It is an awesome natural moisturizing factor, aka NMF. NMFs are important components that help the skin to hold onto water and keep it plump, elastic and hydrated. Urea makes up about 7% of NMFs next to other things such as amino acids (40%), PCA ...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 57 Ingredient Name = Urea Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Yes, it's the thing that can be found naturally in pee. And in the skin. It is an awesome natural moisturizing factor, aka NMF. ...
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Glutamic Acid
cosmetic
Glutamic acid is a little molecule and non-essential (our body can synthesize it) amino acid with the important job of being a neurotransmitter in the human body meaning that it helps your nervous system work correctly. As for what it's doing in cosmetics, Glutamic acids' main thing (similar to other amino acids) is be...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 58 Ingredient Name = Glutamic Acid Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: Glutamic acid is a little molecule and non-essential (our body can synthesize it) amino acid with the important job of ...
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Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil
cosmetic
The emollient plant oil that comes from almonds . Similar to other plant oils, it is loaded with skin-nourishing fatty acids ( oleic acid - 55-86% and linoleic acid 7-35%) and contains several other skin goodies such as antioxidant vitamin E and vitamin B versions. It's a nice, basic oil that is often used due to its g...
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Ingredient Index_Id = 59 Ingredient Name = Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil Ingredient Category = cosmetic Ingredient Is Harmful = not harmful Ingredient Description: The emollient plant oil that comes from almonds . Similar to other plant oils, it is loaded with skin-nou...
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