
Pure-Castile Liquid Soap- Baby Unscented
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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Water | solvent | ||
(Organic) Coconut Oil* | emollient, perfuming | 0, 4 | goodie |
Potassium Hydroxide** | buffering | ||
(Organic) Palm Kernel Oil* | emollient | ||
(Organic) Olive Oil* | antioxidant, emollient, perfuming | 0, 0-2 | goodie |
(Organic) Hemp Oil | emollient | ||
(Organic) Jojoba Oil | emollient | 0, 0-2 | goodie |
Citric Acid | buffering | ||
Tocopherol | antioxidant | 0-3, 0-3 | goodie |
Dr. Bronner's Pure-Castile Liquid Soap- Baby UnscentedIngredients explained
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.
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.
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.
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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.
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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).
Citric acid comes from citrus fruits and is an AHA. If these magic three letters don’t tell you anything, click here and read our detailed description on glycolic acid, the most famous AHA.
So citric acid is an exfoliant, that can - just like other AHAs - gently lift off the dead skin cells of your skin and make it more smooth and fresh.
- 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 | solvent |
what‑it‑does | emollient | perfuming |
irritancy, com. | 0, 4 |
what‑it‑does | buffering |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
what‑it‑does | antioxidant | emollient | perfuming |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-2 |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-2 |
what‑it‑does | buffering |
what‑it‑does | antioxidant |
irritancy, com. | 0-3, 0-3 |