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...
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,...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...