Blood Orange Cleansing Balm
Ingredients overview
| what‑it‑does | antioxidant | emollient |
| what‑it‑does | emollient |
| irritancy, com. | 1 4 |
| what‑it‑does | perfuming |
| what‑it‑does | antioxidant | emollient |
| what‑it‑does | emollient | emulsifying | viscosity controlling |
| what‑it‑does | perfuming |
| what‑it‑does | emollient | emulsifying |
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Key Ingredients
| what‑it‑does | antioxidant | emollient |
| what‑it‑does | antioxidant | emollient |
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| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Persea Gratissima (Organic Avocado) Oil | antioxidant, emollient | goodie | |
| Cocos Nucifera (Organic Coconut) Oil | emollient | 1, 4 | goodie |
| Olea Europaea (Organic Olive) Leaf Oil | perfuming | ||
| Olea Europaea (Organic Olive) Oil | antioxidant, emollient | goodie | |
| Cera Alba (Organic Beeswax) | emollient, emulsifying, viscosity controlling | ||
| Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Blood Orange Essential Oil) Oil | perfuming | icky | |
| Polyglyceryl-3 Palmitate (Derived From Coconuts) | emollient, emulsifying |
Ingredients explained
The oil coming from the pulp of one of the most nutritious fruits in the world, the avocado. It's loaded with the nourishing and moisturizing fatty acid, oleic (70%) and contains some others including palmitic (10%) and linoleic acid (8%). It also contains a bunch of minerals and vitamins A, E and D.
Avocado oil has extraordinary skin penetration abilities and can nourish different skin layers. It's a very rich, highly moisturizing emollient oil that makes the skin smooth and nourished. Thanks to its vitamin E content it also has some antioxidant properties. As a high-oleic plant oil, it is recommended for dry skin.
There is definitely some craze going on for coconut oil both in the healthy eating space (often claimed to be the healthiest oil to cook with but this is a topic for another site) and in the skin and hair care space.
We will talk here about the latter two and see why we might want to smear it all over ourselves. Chemically speaking, coconut oil has a unique fatty acid profile. Unlike many plant oils that mostly contain unsaturated fatty acids (fatty acids with double bonds and kinky structure such as linoleic or oleic), coconut oil is mostly saturated (fatty acids with single bonds only) and its most important fatty acid is Lauric Acid (about 50%). Saturated fatty acids have a linear structure that can stack nice and tight and hence they are normally solid at room temperature. Coconut oil melts around 25 °C so it is solid in the tub but melts on contact with the skin.
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You probably know olive oil from the kitchen as a great and healthy option for salad dressing but it's also a great and healthy option to moisturize and nourish the skin, especially if it's on the dry side.
Similar to other emollient plant oils, it's loaded with nourishing fatty acids: oleic is the main component (55-83%), and also contains linoleic (3.5-20%) and palmitic acids (7-20%). It also contains antioxidant polyphenols, tocopherols (types of vitamin E) and carotenoids and it's one of the best plant sources of skin-identical emollient, Squalene.
It's the yellow, solid stuff that you probably know from beeswax candles. It's a natural material produced by honey bees to build their honeycomb.
As for skincare, it's used as an emollient and thickening agent. It's super common in lip balms and lipsticks.
The essential oil coming from the sweet orange. In the case of orange (and citruses in general), the essential oil is mainly in the peel of the fruit, so it's pretty much the same as the orange peel oil (also has the same CAS number - a unique ID assigned to chemicals).
Its main component is limonene (up to 97%), a super common fragrant ingredient that makes everything smell nice (but counts as a frequent skin sensitizer).
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