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Rose Water

Rose water is a natural facial toner for anyone with mature, normal or combination skin. It can be used as a delicate facial cleanser to remove make-up. Its lightly hydrating formula maintains the pH balance and stimulates regeneration processes, leaving your skin fresh, clean and flawlessly smooth.

Uploaded by: mochachocolata on 08/03/2023

Ingredients overview

Aqua, Rosa Damascena Flower Oil, Potassium Sorbate, Polysorbatose Oil, Sodium Benzoate, Citric Acid

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Highlights

Key Ingredients

Antioxidant: Rosa Damascena Flower Oil

Other Ingredients

Antimicrobial/antibacterial: Rosa Damascena Flower Oil

Buffering: Citric Acid

Perfuming: Rosa Damascena Flower Oil

Preservative: Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate

Solvent: Aqua

Skim through

Ingredient name	what-it-does	ID-Rating
Aqua	solvent
Rosa Damascena Flower Oil	antioxidant, perfuming, antimicrobial/antibacterial	icky
Potassium Sorbate	preservative
Polysorbatose Oil
Sodium Benzoate	preservative
Citric Acid	buffering

Ultrapure Rose Water
Ingredients explained

Aqua

Also-called: Water | What-it-does: solvent

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.

Rosa Damascena Flower Oil - icky

Also-called: Damask Rose Flower Oil | What-it-does: antioxidant, perfuming, antimicrobial/antibacterial

We are big fans of all kinds of roses as ornamental plants but when it comes to skincare, it is a mixed bag. Before we list out the good and the not so good, here is an interesting thing.

The oil content in rose is very, very low so distilling rose essential oil requires huge amounts of rose flowers. It has such a wonderful scent that there are no comparable synthetic alternatives. You can probably guess that this means rose essential oil is expensive.... very very expensive.

So the good things: thanks to its wonderful scent the high-end perfume industry loves rose oil. Also, we (humans :)) love rose oil. We love its scent so much that it can heal headaches, depression, stress, and even grief.

Rose oil contains more than 95 compounds, among them flavonoids, anthocyanins, vitamin C, and quercetin that are all known for their medicinal properties and great antioxidant effects. Similar to many other essential oils, it has antimicrobial properties too.

Now, the not-so-good thing? Out of the 95 compounds, the major ones are citronellol and geraniol, fragrant components that might irritate sensitive skin.

Potassium Sorbate

What-it-does: preservative

It's one of those things that help your cosmetics not to go wrong too soon, aka a preservative. It’s not a strong one and doesn’t really work against bacteria, but more against mold and yeast. To do that it has to break down to its active form, sorbic acid. For that to happen, there has to be water in the product and the right pH value (pH 3-4).

But even if everything is right, it’s not enough on its own. If you see potassium sorbate you should see some other preservative next to it too.

BTW, it’s also a food preservative and even has an E number, E202.

Polysorbatose Oil

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

Sodium Benzoate

What-it-does: preservative

A helper ingredient that helps to make the products stay nice longer, aka preservative. It works mainly against fungi.

It’s pH dependent and works best at acidic pH levels (3-5). It’s not strong enough to be used in itself so it’s always combined with something else, often with potassium sorbate.

Citric Acid

What-it-does: buffering

Citric acid comes from citrus fruits and is an AHA. If these magic three letters don’t tell you anything, click here and read our detailed description on glycolic acid, the most famous AHA.

So citric acid is an exfoliant, that can - just like other AHAs - gently lift off the dead skin cells of your skin and make it more smooth and fresh.

There is also some research showing that citric acid with regular use (think three months and 20% concentration) can help sun-damaged skin, increase skin thickness and some nice hydrating things called glycosaminoglycans in the skin.

But according to a comparative study done in 1995, citric acid has less skin improving magic properties than glycolic or lactic acid. Probably that’s why citric acid is usually not used as an exfoliant but more as a helper ingredient in small amounts to adjust the pH of a formulation.

Ultrapure Rose Water