Ingredients

Lavender Flower Oil

Quick Facts: Soothes eczema and dry skin Lightens skin Anti-inflammatory Wound-healing properties Insect repellant Benefits: Lavender oil works to kill bacteria, and this can prevent and heal acne breakouts. It unclogs pores and reduces inflammation when you put it on your skin. To use lavend...

Jojoba Oil

Rating: GOOD What It Does: Emollient Irritancy: 0 Comedogenicity: 0-2 Description: Jojoba is a shrub native to South-western North America. It is resistant to droughts and grown for its jojoba oil a golden yellow liquid that comes from the seeds. It may seem like your average emollient plant oil,...

L-Ascorbic Acid

Rating: AMAZING Also Called: Vitamin-C, Vitamin C, L-ascorbic acid What It Does: Antioxidant, Skin Brightening, Buffering Quick Facts: Works best between 5-20% concentration Boosts the skin's own collagen production Fades pigmentation and brown spots If used under sunscreen it boosts its UV prot...

Organic Castile Soap

Rating: GOOD Description: Benefits: Castile soap is gentle to cleanse without the toxins, safe for sensitive skin. It also helps with oily, acne-prone skin; naturally hydrating, and doesn’t gunk up pores. Eases eczema and psoriasis.

Eucalyptus Essential Oil

Rating: GOOD Also Called: Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Oil What It Does: perfuming, antimicrobial, antibacterial Description: This essential oil is created by steam distilling the leaves of the Eucalyptus tree. The eucalyptus essential oil is colorless, pale yellow oil with camphoraceous aroma used m...

Allantoin

Rating: GOOD What It Does: soothing Irritancy: 0 Comedogenicity: 0 Description: Allantoin is a soothing ingredient. It is naturally found in roots and leaves of the comfrey plant. In cosmetic products its usually produced synthetically. Not only is Allantoin soothing, but is also skin-softening a...

Rosehip Seed Oil

Rating: GOOD Also Called: Dog-Rose Seed Oil, Rosehip Seed Oil, Rose Canina Seed Oil What It Does: emollient Description: The oil comes from the seed of dog-rose. Dog-rose is a wild rose species native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia. It is an emollient, moisturizing plaint oil loaded...

Vitamin E

Rating: GOOD Also Called: Vitamin E Acetate What It Does: antioxidant Irritancy: 0 Comedogenicity: 0 Description: Benefits: Vitamin E oil prevents signs of aging.⁠ It protects your skin from harmful UV light,⁠ reduces damage from the sun and appearance of scars,⁠ keeps skin moisturized and supple.

Organic Bilberry Extract

Rating: GOOD Description: Benefits: Bilberry is one of the best sources of antioxidant compounds known as anthocyanins, polyphenolic chemicals that give bilberries their dark color. Not surprisingly, bilberries are similar to blueberries. Applied to skin, bilberry is known to strengthen skin aga...

Hyaluronic Acid

Rating: BEST What It Does: skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer, humectant Quick Facts: It is naturally in our skin and behaves like a sponge It can bind up to 1,000 times its own weight in water It is the big molecule from repeated subunits (polymer) so different molecular weight versions ex...

Dimethicone

Rating: GOOD What It Does: emollient Irritancy: 0 Comedogenicity: 1 Description: A type of silicone, dimethicone is one of the most frequently used emollient ingredients in moisturizers due to its gentleness and effectiveness. Dimethicone is considered a synthetic ingredient, even though it’s der...