
Soap Bar, Lemongrass
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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Saponified Palm Oil | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing, viscosity controlling | ||
Palm Kernel Oil | emollient | ||
Water | solvent | ||
Glycerin | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
Lemongrass Oil | |||
Jojoba Seed Oil | emollient | 0, 0-2 | goodie |
Aloe Vera Juice | soothing, moisturizer/humectant | goodie |
Desert Essence Soap Bar, LemongrassIngredients explained
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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 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
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Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil).
At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically - or rather chemically - it's not an oil but a wax ester (and calling it an oil is kind of sloppy).
Aloe Vera is one of today’s magic plants. It does have some very nice properties indeed, though famous dermatologist Leslie Baumann warns us in her book that most of the evidence is anecdotal and the plant might be a bit overhyped.
What research does confirm about Aloe is that it’s a great moisturizer and has several anti-inflammatory (among others contains salicylates, polysaccharides, magnesium lactate and C-glucosyl chromone) as well as some antibacterial components. It also helps wound healing and skin regeneration in general. All in all definitely a goodie.
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what‑it‑does | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing | viscosity controlling |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
what‑it‑does | solvent |
what‑it‑does | skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0 |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-2 |
what‑it‑does | soothing | moisturizer/humectant |