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Life-flo Magnesium Body Scrub

Life-flo
Magnesium Body Scrub

Magnesium Body Scrub has a high concentration of pure magnesium chloride mined deep from under the earth's surface from the Zechstein Sea in the Netherlands. Easy to apply, exfoliates, detoxifies, and moisturizes the skin leaving it feeling relaxed and with a fresh, healthy glow.
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Ingredients overview

Cruelty Free

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#alcohol-free #fragrance & essentialoil-free
Alcohol Free
Fragrance and Essential Oil Free

Life-flo Magnesium Body Scrub
Ingredients explained

Pure Magnesium Chloride Brine (From The Ancient Zechstein Seabed)

This ingredient name is not according to the INCI-standard. :( What, why?!

Fine Sea Salt
Also-called: Salt;Sodium Chloride | What-it-does: viscosity controlling

Sodium chloride is the fancy name of salt. Normal, everyday table salt. 

If (similar to us) you are in the weird habit of reading the label on your shower gel while taking a shower, you might have noticed that sodium chloride is almost always on the ingredient list. The reason for this is that salt acts as a fantastic thickener in cleansing formulas created with ionic cleansing agents (aka surfactants) such as Sodium Laureth Sulfate. A couple of percents (typically 1-3%) turns a runny surfactant solution into a nice gel texture.

If you are into chemistry (if not, we understand, just skip this paragraph), the reason is that electrolytes (you know, the Na+ and Cl- ions) screen the electrostatic repulsion between the head groups of ionic surfactants and thus support the formation of long shaped micelles (instead of spherical ones) that entangle like spaghetti, and viola, a gel is formed. However, too much of it causes the phenomenon called "salting out", and the surfactant solution goes runny again. 

Other than that, salt also works as an emulsion stabilizer in water-in-oil emulsions, that is when water droplets are dispersed in the outer oil (or silicone) phase. And last but not least, when salt is right at the first spot of the ingredient list (and is not dissolved), the product is usually a body scrub where salt is the physical exfoliating agent. 

Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate
What-it-does: viscosity controlling

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