
Nourishing Cleansing Oil
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride | emollient | ||
Octyldodecanol | emollient, perfuming | ||
Peg-40 Sorbitan Peroleate | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | ||
Ethylhexyl Palmitate | emollient, perfuming | 0, 2-4 | |
Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil | soothing, anti-acne, antioxidant, antimicrobial/antibacterial, perfuming | goodie | |
Dicaprylyl Carbonate | emollient | ||
Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil | emollient | 0, 0-2 | goodie |
Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil | emollient | goodie | |
Squalane | skin-identical ingredient, emollient | 0, 1 | goodie |
Skin Laundry Nourishing Cleansing OilIngredients explained
A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular.
A clear, slightly yellow, odorless oil that's a very common, medium-spreading emollient. It makes the skin feel nice and smooth and works in a wide range of formulas.
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A super common, medium-spreading emollient ester that gives richness to the formula and a mild feel during rubout. It can be a replacement for mineral oil and is often combined with other emollients to achieve different sensorial properties.
The famous tea tree oil. One of the best known essential oils which comes from Australia where it has been used for almost 100 years for its antiseptic and anti-inflammatory actions. Legend has it that the medicinal benefits of the oil were considered so important that Australian soldiers were supplied with some tea tree oil in their World War II military kit.
Similar to other essential oils, tea tree oil is a very complex chemical mixture consisting of about 100 components, the major ones being terpinen-4-ol (40%), γ-Terpinene (23%) and α-Terpinene (10%). Terpinen-4-ol is considered to be the main active component but as a great article in Clinical Microbiology Reviews states "while some TTO components may be considered less active, none can be considered inactive" and most components contribute to TTO's strong antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal effects.
A clear, colorless, almost odorless oil that spreads nicely and easily and gives a velvet dry skin feel. It is good friends with sunscreen agents and helps to solubilize them. Also, it makes sunscreens feel lighter and spread easier.
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).
The golden yellow oil coming from the Macadamia nut, a native Australian nut. Similar to other plant oils, it's loaded with emollient and nourishing fatty acids. It's a high oleic acid oil (50-67% oleic acid and only 0-5% linoleic acid) that makes it very emollient and ideal for dry skin types (and less ideal for acne-prone skin).
Its unique property is that it contains high amounts of a rare fatty acid called palmitoleic acid (12-25%) that give Macadamia oil a "cushiony" feel. It's also easily absorbed and makes the skin soft and supple.
It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life.
It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy.
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what‑it‑does | emollient |
what‑it‑does | emollient | perfuming |
what‑it‑does | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing |
what‑it‑does | emollient | perfuming |
irritancy, com. | 0, 2-4 |
what‑it‑does | soothing | anti-acne | antioxidant | antimicrobial/antibacterial | perfuming |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0-2 |
what‑it‑does | emollient |
what‑it‑does | skin-identical ingredient | emollient |
irritancy, com. | 0, 1 |