Coconut Hydrates Lip Balm
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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Petrolatum | emollient | ||
Polybutene | viscosity controlling | ||
Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil | emollient, perfuming | 0, 4 | goodie |
Aroma | |||
Anise Alcohol | perfuming |
Superdrug Extracts Lipcare Coconut Hydrates Lip BalmIngredients explained
The famous Vaseline or Petroleum Jelly. Just like mineral oil, it is also a by-product of refining crude oil, aka petroleum, and it is also a mixture of hydrocarbons but with bigger (C18-90+) carbon chain length.
The unique thing about petrolatum is that it is the most effective occlusive agent known today. While the occlusivity of mineral oil is in the same league as the occlusivity of plant oils, petrolatum is in a league of its own. It sits on top of the skin and hinders so-called transepidermal water loss (TEWL) like nothing else.
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.
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what‑it‑does | emollient |
what‑it‑does | viscosity controlling |
what‑it‑does | emollient | perfuming |
irritancy, com. | 0, 4 |
what‑it‑does | perfuming |