Dove Intensive Repair Conditioner

Dove Intensive Repair Conditioner Dove Intensive Repair Conditioner ingredients explained: Aqua, Cetearyl Alcohol, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Dimethiconol/Silsesquioxane Copolymer, Behentrimonium Chloride, Parfum, Glycerin, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Cocos Nucifera Oil, Sodium Gluconate, Dipropylene Glycol, Isohexadecane, Lactic Acid, 1,2-Hexanediol, Benzyl Alcohol, Citric Acid, Sodium Chloride, Disodium EDTA, Trideceth-6, Sodium Citrate, Cetrimonium Chloride, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Hexyl Cinnamal, Hydroxycitronellal, Linalool Show all ingredients by function Aqua solvent Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Dimethiconol/Silsesquioxane Copolymer Behentrimonium Chloride preservative Parfum perfuming icky Glycerin skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/​humectant 0, 0 superstar Hydrolyzed Soy Protein moisturizer/​humectant Cocos Nucifera Oil emollient, perfuming 0, 4 goodie Sodium Gluconate chelating, moisturizer/​humectant Dipropylene Glycol Isohexadecane emollient, solvent Lactic Acid exfoliant, moisturizer/​humectant, buffering 1,2-Hexanediol Benzyl Alcohol preservative, perfuming, solvent, viscosity controlling Citric Acid buffering Sodium Chloride viscosity controlling Disodium EDTA chelating Trideceth-6 Sodium Citrate chelating, buffering Cetrimonium Chloride antimicrobial/​antibacterial, emulsifying, preservative, surfactant/​cleansing Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone Hexyl Cinnamal Hydroxycitronellal Linalool 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. Expand to read more 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. An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%. It’s a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. alcohol. Fatty alcohols have a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tail part that makes them absolutely non-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin. We don't have description for this ingredient yet. 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!). 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 There is definitely some craze going on for coconut oil both in the healthy eating space (often claimed to be the healthiest oil to cook with but this is a topic for another site) and in the skin and hair care space. We will talk here about the latter two and see why we might want to smear it all over oursel what‑it‑does emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing irritancy, com. emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant moisturizer/humectant emollient | perfuming chelating | moisturizer/humectant emollient | solvent exfoliant | moisturizer/humectant | buffering preservative | perfuming | solvent | viscosity controlling chelating | buffering antimicrobial/antibacterial | emulsifying | preservative | surfactant/cleansing