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Key Ingredients
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| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diatomaceous Earth | abrasive/scrub | ||
| Algin | viscosity controlling | 4, 4 | |
| Glucose | moisturizer/humectant | goodie | |
| Calcium Sulfate | abrasive/scrub | ||
| Amber Powder | |||
| Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract | soothing, emollient, moisturizer/humectant | goodie | |
| Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate | buffering, chelating | ||
| Parfum | perfuming | icky |
Farmona Professional Regenerating Algae Mask With AmberIngredients explained
A large sugar molecule (aka polysaccharide) that's used as a gelling agent and comes from brown seaweed.
Combined with calcium salts, it forms a rigid gel used in "rubber masks".
A fancy name for sugar. Luckily when you put it on your skin it's good for you not like when you eat it. :) It has water-binding properties, which means that it helps to keep your skin nice and hydrated.
The extract coming from the juice containing leaves of the Aloe vera plant. It's usually a hydroglycolic extract (though oil extract for the lipid parts also exists) that has similar moisturizing, emollient and anti-inflammatory properties as the juice itself. We have written some more about aloe here.
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Exactly what it sounds: nice smelling stuff put into cosmetic products so that the end product also smells nice. Fragrance in the US and parfum in the EU is a generic term on the ingredient list that is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on average (but it can have as much as 200 components!).
If you are someone who likes to know what you put on your face then fragrance is not your best friend - there's no way to know what’s really in it.
Also, if your skin is sensitive, fragrance is again not your best friend. It’s the number one cause of contact allergy to cosmetics. It’s definitely a smart thing to avoid with sensitive skin (and fragrance of any type - natural is just as allergic as synthetic, if not worse!).
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| what‑it‑does | abrasive/scrub |
| what‑it‑does | viscosity controlling |
| irritancy, com. | 4, 4 |
| what‑it‑does | moisturizer/humectant |
| what‑it‑does | abrasive/scrub |
| what‑it‑does | soothing | emollient | moisturizer/humectant |
| what‑it‑does | buffering | chelating |
| what‑it‑does | perfuming |