
Spf30 Mineral Shield Daily Primer
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil | emollient | 0, 1-3 | goodie |
Coco-Caprylate/Caprate | emollient | ||
Zinc Oxide | sunscreen | 0, 1 | goodie |
Cera Alba (Beeswax) | emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, perfuming | 0, 0-2 | |
Cocos Nucifera (Coconut Oil) Oil | emollient, perfuming | 0, 4 | goodie |
Hippophae Rhamnoides (Seabuckthorn) Seed Oil | |||
Tocopherol (Vitamin E) | antioxidant | 0-3, 0-3 | goodie |
Cetyl Esters | emollient |
Beauty Kitchen Spf30 Mineral Shield Daily PrimerIngredients explained
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 great smoothing, softening and moisturizing properties. It's also particularly good at treating dry brittle nails (source).
A light emollient ester (C8-10 fatty acids connected to C12-18 fatty alcohols) that absorbs quickly and leaves a dry but silky finish on the skin. In terms of skin feel, it is similar to Dicaprylyl Carbonate, another commonly used light emollient.
When it comes to sunscreen agents, Zinc Oxide is pretty much in a league of its own. It's a physical (or inorganic) sunscreen that has a lot in common with fellow inorganic sunscreen Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) but a couple of things make it superior even to TiO2.
If physical sunscreens don't tell you anything, go ahead and read about the basics here. Most of what we wrote about Titanium Dioxide is also true for Zinc Oxide so we will focus here on the differences.
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.
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.
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
- Primary fat-soluble antioxidant in our skin
- Significant photoprotection against UVB rays
- Vit C + Vit E work in synergy and provide great photoprotection
- Has emollient properties
- Easy to formulate, stable and relatively inexpensive
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what‑it‑does | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 1-3 |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
what‑it‑does | sunscreen |
irritancy, com. | 0, 1 |
what‑it‑does | emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | perfuming |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-2 |
what‑it‑does | emollient | perfuming |
irritancy, com. | 0, 4 |
what‑it‑does | antioxidant |
irritancy, com. | 0-3, 0-3 |
what‑it‑does | emollient |