A cleanser special for men what doesn’t make sense and it’s overpriced as hell :)
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Ingredients overview
Aqua, Glycerin, Coco-Glucoside, Betaine, Inulin, Polyglyceryl-6 Caprylate, Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate, Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate, Zinc Lactate, Xanthan Gum, Pentylene Glycol, Bisabolol, Bisabolene, Citric Acid, Benzyl Alcohol, Parfum, Sodium Chloride, Sucrose, Fructose, Glucose
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Highlights
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Key Ingredients
Skin-identical ingredient: Glycerin
Soothing: Bisabolol, Sucrose
Other Ingredients
Buffering: Citric Acid
Emulsifying: Polyglyceryl-6 Caprylate, Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate
Moisturizer/humectant: Glycerin, Betaine, Pentylene Glycol, Sucrose, Fructose, Glucose
Perfuming: Bisabolene, Benzyl Alcohol, Parfum
Preservative: Benzyl Alcohol
Solvent: Aqua, Pentylene Glycol, Benzyl Alcohol
Surfactant/cleansing: Coco-Glucoside, Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate
Viscosity controlling: Xanthan Gum, Benzyl Alcohol, Sodium Chloride
Skim through
| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua | solvent | ||
| Glycerin | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
| Coco-Glucoside | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Betaine | moisturizer/humectant | goodie | |
| Inulin | goodie | ||
| Polyglyceryl-6 Caprylate | emulsifying | ||
| Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate | surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate | emulsifying | ||
| Zinc Lactate | |||
| Xanthan Gum | viscosity controlling | ||
| Pentylene Glycol | solvent, moisturizer/humectant | ||
| Bisabolol | soothing | goodie | |
| Bisabolene | perfuming | ||
| Citric Acid | buffering | ||
| Benzyl Alcohol | preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling | ||
| Parfum | perfuming | icky | |
| Sodium Chloride | viscosity controlling | ||
| Sucrose | moisturizer/humectant, soothing | goodie | |
| Fructose | moisturizer/humectant | goodie | |
| Glucose | moisturizer/humectant | goodie |
Maleup Hydrating Face Cleanser
Ingredients explainedAqua
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.
Glycerin - superstar
Also-called: Glycerol | What-it-does: skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
- 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
Read all the geeky details about Glycerin here >>
Coco-Glucoside
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing
A vegetable origin (coconut/palm kernel oil, glucose) cleansing agent that givesmoderate to high stable foam. It's also biodegradable and mild to the skin.
Betaine - goodie
What-it-does: moisturizer/humectant
A sugar beet-derivedamino acid derivative with nice skin protection and moisturization properties. Betaine's special thing is being an osmolyte, a molecule that helps to control cell-water balance. It is also a natural osmoprotectant, meaning that it attracts water away from the protein surface and thusprotects them from denaturation and increases their thermodynamic stability.
It also gives sensorial benefits to the formulaand when used in cleansers, it helps to make them milder and gentler.
Inulin - goodie
A naturally occurring fructose polysaccharide found in the roots and rhizomes of several plants, for example, chicory. It is used in skincare for its prebiotic activity, meaning that it reduces the growth of badbacteria in favor of friendly microorganisms naturally present on the skin.
Polyglyceryl-6 Caprylate
What-it-does: emulsifying
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate
What-it-does: emulsifying
A water-loving emollient that is used as a solubilizer in water-based, toner-like formulas. Solubilizersare handy helper ingredients to dissolve small amounts of oil-loving materials (such as essential oils or fragrances) into watery liquids. Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate also has some emollient properties, making the skin feel nice and smooth.
Zinc Lactate
What-it-does: deodorant
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Xanthan Gum
What-it-does: viscosity controlling, emulsion stabilising
It's one of the most commonly used thickeners and emulsion stabilizers. If the product is too runny, a little xanthan gum will make it more gel-like.Used alone, it can make the formula sticky and it is a good team player so it is usually combined with other thickeners and so-calledrheology modifiers (helper ingredients that adjust the flow and thus the feel of the formula). The typical use level of Xantha Gum is below 1%, it is usually in the 0.1-0.5% range.
Btw, Xanthan gum is all natural, a chain of sugar molecules (polysaccharide) produced from individual sugar molecules (glucose and sucrose) via fermentation. It’s approved by Ecocert and also used in the food industry(E415).
Pentylene Glycol
What-it-does: solvent, moisturizer/humectant
A multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used as anemulsion stabilizer, solvent and a broad spectrum antimicrobial. According to manufacturer info, it's also amoisturizer and helps to make the product feel great on the skin. It works synergistically with preservatives and helps to improvewater-resistance of sunscreens.
Bisabolol - goodie
Also-called: Alpha-Bisabolol | What-it-does: soothing
It's one of the active parts ofChamomile that contains about 30% of bisabolol. It's aclear oily fluid that is used in skincare as a nice anti-inflammatory and soothing ingredient.
Bisabolene
What-it-does: perfuming
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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 monthsand 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.
Benzyl Alcohol
What-it-does: preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling
It's one of those things that help your cosmetics not to go wrong too soon, aka a preservative. It can be naturally found in fruits and teas but can also be made synthetically.
No matter the origin, in small amounts (up to 1%) it’s a nice, gentle preservative. Has to be combined with some other nice preservatives, like potassium sorbateto be broad spectrum enough.
In high amounts, it can be a skin irritant, but don’t worry, it’s never used in high amounts.
Parfum - icky
Also-called: Fragrance, Parfum;Parfum/Fragrance | What-it-does: perfuming
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!).
Sodium Chloride
Also-called: Salt | What-it-does: viscosity controlling
Sodium chloride is the fancy name of salt. Normal, everyday table salt.
If (similar to us) you are in the weird habit of reading the label on your shower gel while taking a shower, you might have noticed that sodium chloride is almost always on the ingredient list. The reason for this is that salt acts as a fantastic thickener in cleansing formulas created with ionic cleansing agents(aka surfactants) such as Sodium Laureth Sulfate. A couple of percents (typically 1-3%) turns a runny surfactant solution into a nice gel texture.
If you are into chemistry (if not, we understand, just skip this paragraph), the reason is that electrolytes (you know, the Na+ and Cl- ions) screen the electrostatic repulsion between the head groups of ionic surfactants and thus support the formation of long shaped micelles (instead of spherical ones) that entangle like spaghetti, and viola, a gel is formed. However, too much of it causes the phenomenon called "salting out", and the surfactant solution goes runny again.
Other than that, salt also works as an emulsion stabilizer inwater-in-oil emulsions, that is when water droplets are dispersed in the outer oil (or silicone) phase. And last but not least, when salt is right at the first spot of the ingredient list (and is not dissolved), the product is usually a body scrub where salt is thephysical exfoliating agent.
Sucrose - goodie
What-it-does: moisturizer/humectant, soothing
A type fo sugar, usuallyrefined from cane or beet sugar. On the skin, it haswater-binding properties and helps to keep your skin hydrated.
Fructose - goodie
What-it-does: moisturizer/humectant
Fancy name for fruit sugar. It has nice water-binding properties and helps to keep skin hydrated.
Glucose - goodie
What-it-does: moisturizer/humectant
A fancy name for sugar. Luckily when you put it on your skin it's good for you not like when you eat it. :) It has water-binding properties, which means that it helps to keep your skin nice and hydrated.
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