Let The Good Times Roll
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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(Maize Flour) Zea Mays | viscosity controlling, abrasive/scrub | ||
Glycerine | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
Talc | abrasive/scrub | 0, 1 | |
Water (Aqua) | solvent | ||
Corn Oil (Zea Mays) (Zea Mays (Corn) Oil) | emulsifying, perfuming | 0, 0-3 | |
Corn Meal ((Zea Mays)) | abrasive/scrub | ||
(Cinnamon Powder) Cinnamomum Zeylanicum Bark Powder | |||
Fragrance | perfuming | icky | |
Gardenia Extract (Gardenia Jasminoides) | |||
Popcorn |
Lush Let The Good Times RollIngredients explained
A corn-derived, white to yellowish, floury powder that works as a handy helper ingredient to create nice feeling emulsions.
It gives a generally pleasant skin feel, has some mattifying effect (though rice starch is better at that), it reduces greasiness and tackiness and helps the formula to spread easily without whitening or shininess.
- 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 for dry skin at higher concentrations up to 20-40%
- High-glycerin moisturizers are awesome for treating severely dry skin
Talc is the major component of most powder makeup products (think face powder, eyeshadows, and blushers) that usually contain it up to 70%. Its two winning properties that make it very suitable for this role is its outstanding spreadability for a smooth application and its low covering power, aka translucency to avoid clown-like effects.
Chemically speaking, it is a clay mineral (hydrated magnesium silicate) that is mined in several countries. The drawback of mined minerals is potential impurities and the version used in cosmetics has to be white (not gray like cheaper grades), free from asbestos, sterilized and have thin plates for a maximum slip.
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.
Once inside the skin, it hydrates, but not from the outside - putting pure water on the skin (hello long baths!) is drying.
One more thing: the water used in cosmetics is purified and deionized (it means that almost all of the mineral ions inside it is removed). Like this, the products can stay more stable over time.
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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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This ingredient name is not according to the INCI-standard. :( What, why?!
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what‑it‑does | viscosity controlling | abrasive/scrub |
what‑it‑does | skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0 |
what‑it‑does | abrasive/scrub |
irritancy, com. | 0, 1 |
what‑it‑does | solvent |
what‑it‑does | emulsifying | perfuming |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-3 |
what‑it‑does | abrasive/scrub |
what‑it‑does | perfuming |