
Florasone - Topical Cream
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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Cardiospermum Halicacabum Tincture | |||
Benzyl Alcohol | preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling | ||
Cetyl Alcohol | emollient, emulsifying, viscosity controlling, surfactant/cleansing | 2, 2 | |
Glycerin | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
Glycol Stearate | emollient, emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | 0, 0 | |
Isopropyl Myristate | emollient, perfuming | 3, 3-5 | |
Mineral Oil | emollient, solvent | 0, 0-2 | |
Potassium Hydroxide | buffering | ||
Purified Water | solvent | ||
Stearyl Heptanoate | emollient | 0, 4 |
Boericke & Tafel Florasone - Topical CreamIngredients explained
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It's one of those things that help your cosmetics not to go wrong too soon, aka a preservative. It can be naturally found in fruits and teas but can also be made synthetically.
No matter the origin, in small amounts (up to 1%) it’s a nice, gentle preservative. Has to be combined with some other nice preservatives, like potassium sorbate to be broad spectrum enough.
A so-called fatty (the good, non-drying kind of) alcohol that does all kinds of things in a skincare product: it makes your skin feel smooth and nice (emollient), helps to thicken up products and also helps water and oil to blend (emulsifier). Can be derived from coconut or palm kernel oil.
- 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 at higher concentrations up to 20-40% (around 10% is a good usability-effectiveness sweet spot)
- High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry skin
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
A clear, colorless oil-like liquid that makes the skin feel smooth and nice (aka emollient) and it does so without it being greasy.
What's more, it can even reduce the heavy, greasy feel in products with high oil content. It's also fast-spreading meaning that it gives the formula a good, nice slip. It absorbs quickly into the skin and helps other ingredients to penetrate quicker and deeper.
The famous or maybe rather infamous mineral oil. The clear oily liquid that is the "cheap by-product" of refining crude oil and the one that gets a lot of heat for its poor provenance. It is a very controversial ingredient with pros and cons and plenty of myths around it. So let us see them:
The pros of mineral oil
Trust us, if something is used for more than 100 years in cosmetic products, it has advantages. Chemically speaking, cosmetic grade mineral oil is a complex mixture of highly refined saturated hydrocarbons with C15-50 chain length. It is not merely a "by-product" but rather a specifically isolated part of petroleum that is very pure and inert.
It is a great emollient and moisturizer working mainly by occlusivity. Occlusivity is one of the basic mechanisms of how moisturizers work and it means that mineral oil sits on top of the skin and hinders so-called trans-epidermal water loss, i.e water evaporating out of your skin. When compared to heavy-duty plant oil, extra virgin coconut oil, the two of them were equally efficient and safe as moisturizers in treating xerosis, a skin condition connected to very dry skin.
It's a very alkaline stuff that helps to set the pH of the cosmetic formula to be just right. It's similar to the more often used sodium hydroxide and pretty much the same of what we wrote there applies here too.
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.
A solid emollient that melts at skin temperature and gives a silky but non-oily skin-feel.
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what‑it‑does | preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling |
what‑it‑does | emollient | emulsifying | viscosity controlling | surfactant/cleansing |
irritancy, com. | 2, 2 |
what‑it‑does | skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0 |
what‑it‑does | emollient | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0 |
what‑it‑does | emollient | perfuming |
irritancy, com. | 3, 3-5 |
what‑it‑does | emollient | solvent |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-2 |
what‑it‑does | buffering |
what‑it‑does | solvent |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 4 |