

Nivea
Creme (German)
Uploaded on 11/24/2020
Made in germany, the unsurpassed classic among skin creams, cares
and protects all skin types from dehydration with its rich formula.
Nivea
Creme
Uploaded on 04/22/2021
Everyone’s skin needs a little extra care, and nivea® creme
provides that and more. Enriched with provitamin b5, the rich, creamy formula intensively moisturizes, nourishes and protects the skin from that rough, dry, feel.
Ingredients
what‑it‑does | solvent |
Normal (well kind of - it's purified and deionized) water. Usually the main solvent in cosmetic products.
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what‑it‑does | emollient | solvent |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-2 |
A clear, oily liquid that comes from refining crude oil. Even though it is a highly controversial ingredient, the scientific consensus is that it is a safe, non-irritating and effective emollient and moisturizer working mainly by occlusivity.
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what‑it‑does | emollient |
The famous Vaseline or Petroleum Jelly. Just like mineral oil, it is also a by-product of refining crude oil, aka petroleum, and it is also a mixture of hydrocarbons but with bigger (C18-90+) carbon chain length.The unique thing about petrolatum is that it is the most effective occlusive agent known today.
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what‑it‑does | skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0 |
A real oldie but a goodie. Great natural moisturizer and skin-identical ingredient that plays an important role in skin hydration and general skin health.
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what‑it‑does | viscosity controlling |
what‑it‑does | emollient | emulsifying | viscosity controlling |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-2 |
what‑it‑does | viscosity controlling | perfuming |
what‑it‑does | soothing | moisturizer/humectant |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0 |
Pro-Vitamin B5 is a goodie that moisturises the skin, has anti-inflammatory, skin protecting and wound healing properties.
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what‑it‑does | viscosity controlling |
A helper ingredient that is used as a bulking and viscosity controlling agent. It is also an emulsion stabilizer in water-in-oil emulsions, where water droplets are dispersed in the continuous oil phase and not the other way round.
It can also be used as a heat generating agent in water-less formulas as it has an instant heat-generating chemical reaction with water.
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what‑it‑does | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 3 |
what‑it‑does | emollient | perfuming |
A clear, slightly yellow, odorless oil that's a very common, medium-spreading emollient. It makes the skin feel nice and smooth and works in a wide range of formulas.
what‑it‑does | emollient | viscosity controlling |
what‑it‑does | perfuming |
The generic term for nice smelling stuff put into cosmetic products so that the end product also smells nice. It is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on average.
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what‑it‑does | buffering |
An AHA that comes from citrus fruits. It is usually used as a helper ingredient to adjust the pH of the formula.
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what‑it‑does | colorant | moisturizer/humectant |
irritancy, com. | 0, 1 |
what‑it‑does | preservative |
Preservative with relatively high irritation risk. It's always used together with Methylisothiazolinone.
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what‑it‑does | preservative |
Preservative with relatively high irritation risk that is used mainly in rinse-off products.
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what‑it‑does | perfuming | solvent |
A super common fragrance ingredient found naturally in many plants including citrus peel oils, rosemary or lavender. It autoxidizes on air exposure and counts as a common skin sensitizer.
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what‑it‑does | perfuming |
A common fragrance ingredient that smells like rose and can be found in rose oil.
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what‑it‑does | perfuming |
what‑it‑does | perfuming |
A super common fragrance ingredient that can be found among others in lavender, ylang-ylang, bergamot or jasmine. The downside of it is that it oxidises on air exposure and might become allergenic.
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what‑it‑does | perfuming |
A common fragrance ingredient with a nice rose-like smell.
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what‑it‑does | solvent | perfuming | antimicrobial/antibacterial |
A common fragrance ingredient that has a faint sweet balsamic smell. It can also be a solvent and can fight against microbes and insects very well. One of the “EU 26 fragrances” that has to be labelled separately because of allergen potential.
what‑it‑does | perfuming |