
White Chocolate Truffle Moisturiser
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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Vitellaria Paradoxa [Shea Butter]* | emollient, viscosity controlling | goodie | |
Cocos Nucifera [Coconut Butter]* | emollient, perfuming | 0, 4 | goodie |
Simmondsia Chinensis [Jojoba Oil]* | emollient | 0, 0-2 | goodie |
Vanilla Tahitensis [Tahitian Vanilla Extract] | |||
Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Extract | |||
Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Extract* | antimicrobial/​antibacterial | ||
Helianthus Annuus [Sunflower Oil]* | emollient | 0, 0 | goodie |
MuLondon White Chocolate Truffle MoisturiserIngredients explained
Unless you live under a rock you must have heard about shea butter. It's probably the most hyped up natural butter in skincare today. It comes from the seeds of African Shea or Karite Trees and used as a magic moisturizer and emollient.
But it's not only a simple emollient, it regenerates and soothes the skin, protects it from external factors (such as UV rays or wind) and is also rich in antioxidants (among others vitamin A, E, F, quercetin and epigallocatechin gallate). If you are looking for rich emollient benefits + more, shea is hard to beat.
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.
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).
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Sunflower does not need a big intro as you probably use it in the kitchen as cooking oil, or you munch on the seeds as a healthy snack or you adore its big, beautiful yellow flower during the summer - or you do all of these and probably even more. And by even more we mean putting it all over your face as sunflower oil is one of the most commonly used plant oils in skincare.
It’s a real oldie: expressed directly from the seeds, the oil is used not for hundreds but thousands of years. According to The National Sunflower Association, there is evidence that both the plant and its oil were used by American Indians in the area of Arizona and New Mexico about 3000 BC. Do the math: it's more than 5000 years – definitely an oldie.
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what‑it‑does | emollient | viscosity controlling |
what‑it‑does | emollient | perfuming |
irritancy, com. | 0, 4 |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-2 |
what‑it‑does | antimicrobial/antibacterial |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0 |