Natural Green Clay Cleansing Balm
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil* | emollient | 0, 1-2 | goodie |
Cocos Nucifera (Virgin Coconut) Oil* | emollient, perfuming | 0, 4 | goodie |
Illite (French Green Clay)** | abrasive/scrub | ||
Cera Alba (Beeswax) | emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, perfuming | 0, 0-2 |
By Sarah London Natural Green Clay Cleansing BalmIngredients explained
The emollient plant oil coming from the kernel (the seed of the seed) of the delicious apricot fruit. Like other plant oils, it contains antioxidant vitamin E and nourishing fatty acids (mostly oleic acid 54-74%, linoleic acid 12-35%).
It's a nice general purpose emollient, has nourishing and moisturizing properties (as a high oleic oil it's ideal for dry skin types) and is quite easily absorbed into the 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.
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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.
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what‑it‑does | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 1-2 |
what‑it‑does | emollient | perfuming |
irritancy, com. | 0, 4 |
what‑it‑does | abrasive/scrub |
what‑it‑does | emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | perfuming |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-2 |