Cleansing lotion to remove makeup and hydrate skin.
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Ingredients overview
Water (Eau), Isononyl Isononanoate, Cyclomethicone, Isostearyl Palmitate, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate, Hexylene Glycol, Sucrose Cocoate, PEG-6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides, Carbomer, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Sodium Hydroxide, Disodium EDTA
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Highlights
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Alcohol Free
Fragrance and Essential Oil Free
Buffering: Sodium Hydroxide
Chelating: Disodium EDTA
Emollient: Isononyl Isononanoate, Cyclomethicone, Isostearyl Palmitate, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate
Emulsifying: Hexylene Glycol, Sucrose Cocoate, PEG-6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides
Perfuming: Hexylene Glycol, Propylparaben
Preservative: Methylparaben, Propylparaben
Solvent: Water (Eau), Hexylene Glycol
Surfactant/cleansing: Hexylene Glycol, PEG-6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides
Viscosity controlling: Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate, Carbomer
Skim through
| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water (Eau) | solvent | ||
| Isononyl Isononanoate | emollient | ||
| Cyclomethicone | emollient | 0, 0 | |
| Isostearyl Palmitate | emollient | ||
| Cetyl Ethylhexanoate | emollient | ||
| Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate | emollient, viscosity controlling | ||
| Hexylene Glycol | solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/cleansing | 0-1, 0-2 | |
| Sucrose Cocoate | emulsifying | ||
| PEG-6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Carbomer | viscosity controlling | 0, 1 | |
| Methylparaben | preservative | 0, 0 | |
| Propylparaben | preservative, perfuming | 0, 0 | |
| Sodium Hydroxide | buffering | ||
| Disodium EDTA | chelating |
Neutrogena All-In-One Make-Up Removing Cleansing Lotion
Ingredients explainedWater (Eau)
Also-called: Aqua | 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.
Isononyl Isononanoate
What-it-does: emollient
An emollient ester with a rich and creamy but non-greasy skin feel. It makes skin supple and protects dry skin.
Cyclomethicone
What-it-does: emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
Cyclomethicone is not one type of silicone, but a whole mixture of them: it's a mix of specific chain length (4 to 7) cyclic structured silicone molecules. (There seems to be a confusion on the internet whetherCyclomethicone andCyclopentasiloxaneare the same. They are not the same, but Cyclopentasiloxaneis part of the mixture that makes up Cyclomethicone).
All the silicones in theCyclomethicone mixture are volatile, meaning they evaporate from the skin or hair rather than stay on it. This means that Cyclomethicone has a light skin feel with none-to-minimal after-feel. It also makes the formulas easy to spread and has nice emollient properties.
Isostearyl Palmitate
What-it-does: emollient
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
What-it-does: emollient
An odorless and colorless emollient ester (cetylalcohol + ethylhexanoicacid) that gives a velvety and silky feel to the skin. It has great spreadability and a non-oily feel. It's a popular ingredient in makeup removers.
Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate
What-it-does: emollient, viscosity controlling
A high-molecular-weight emollient ester that makes your skin nice and smooth. It leaves a non-oily, light, "wet" feel on the skin.
Hexylene Glycol
What-it-does: solvent, emulsifying, perfuming, surfactant/cleansing | Irritancy: 0-1 | Comedogenicity: 0-2
Similar to other glycols, it's a helper ingredient used as a solvent, or to thin out thick formulas and make them more nicely spreadable.
Hexylene Glycol is also part a preservative blend namedLexgard® HPO, where it helps the effectiveness of current IT-preservative, phenoxyethanol.
Sucrose Cocoate
What-it-does: emulsifying
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
PEG-6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides
What-it-does: emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing
A water-loving liquid that'sclearly soluble in aqueous surfactant solutions, can solubilize oils and oil-soluble ingredients and has a nice skin feel. It's a popular ingredient in micellar cleansing waters.
Carbomer
What-it-does: viscosity controlling, emulsion stabilising | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 1
A big molecule created from repeated subunits (a polymer of acrylic acid) that magically converts a liquidinto a nice gel formula. It usually has to be neutralized with a base (such as sodium hydroxide) for the thickening to occur and it creates viscous, clear gels that also feel nice and non-tacky on the skin. No wonder, it is a very popular and common ingredient. Typically used at 1% or less in most formulations.
Methylparaben
What-it-does: preservative | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
The most common type offeared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason parabens. It's a cheap, effective and well-tolerated ingredient to make sure the cosmetic formula does not go wrong too soon.
Apart from the general controversy around parabens (we wrote about it more here), there is a 2006 in-vitro (made in the lab not on real people) research about methylparaben (MP) showing that when exposed to sunlight, MP treated skin cells suffered more harm than non-MPtreated skin cells. The study was not done with real people on real skin but still - using a good sunscreen next to MP containing productsis a good idea. (Well, in fact using a sunscreen is always a good idea. :))
Propylparaben
What-it-does: preservative, perfuming | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
A very common type offeared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reasonparabens. It's a cheap, effective and well-tolerated ingredient tomake sure the cosmetic formula does not go wrong too soon.
Sodium Hydroxide
Also-called: lye | What-it-does: buffering
The unfancy name for it is lye. It’s a solid white stuff that’s very alkaline and used in small amounts to adjust the pH of the product and make it just right.
For example, in case of AHA or BHA exfoliants, the right pH is super-duper important, and pH adjusters like sodium hydroxide are needed.
BTW, lye is not something new. It was already used by ancient Egyptians to help oil and fat magically turn into something else. Can you guess what? Yes, it’s soap. It still often shows up in the ingredient list of soaps and other cleansers.
Sodium hydroxide in itselfis a potent skin irritant, but once it's reacted (as it is usually in skin care products, like exfoliants) it is totallyharmless.
Disodium EDTA
What-it-does: chelating
Super common little helper ingredient thathelps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. It does so by neutralizing the metal ions in the formula (that usually get into there from water) that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes.
It is typically used in tiny amounts, around 0.1% or less.
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