Large disposable washcloths cleanse, moisturize, and refresh the skin.
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Ingredients overview
Water, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Polysorbate 20, Benzoic Acid, Dehydroacetic Acid, Cetrimonium Chloride, Tetrasodium EDTA, Tocopheryl Acetate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract
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Highlights
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Key Ingredients
Antioxidant: Tocopheryl Acetate
Skin-identical ingredient: Glycerin
Soothing: Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract
Other Ingredients
Antimicrobial/antibacterial: Cetrimonium Chloride
Chelating: Tetrasodium EDTA
Emollient: Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract
Emulsifying: Polysorbate 20, Cetrimonium Chloride
Moisturizer/humectant: Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract
Perfuming: Fragrance, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract
Preservative: Phenoxyethanol, Benzoic Acid, Dehydroacetic Acid, Cetrimonium Chloride
Solvent: Water, Propylene Glycol
Surfactant/cleansing: Polysorbate 20, Cetrimonium Chloride, Cocamidopropyl Betaine
Viscosity controlling: Cocamidopropyl Betaine
Skim through
| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water | solvent | ||
| Phenoxyethanol | preservative | ||
| Fragrance | perfuming | icky | |
| Glycerin | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
| Propylene Glycol | moisturizer/humectant, solvent | 0, 0 | |
| Polysorbate 20 | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | 0, 0 | |
| Benzoic Acid | preservative | ||
| Dehydroacetic Acid | preservative | ||
| Cetrimonium Chloride | antimicrobial/antibacterial, emulsifying, preservative, surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Tetrasodium EDTA | chelating | ||
| Tocopheryl Acetate | antioxidant | 0, 0 | |
| Cocamidopropyl Betaine | surfactant/cleansing, viscosity controlling | ||
| Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract | soothing, emollient, moisturizer/humectant | goodie | |
| Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract | soothing, perfuming | goodie |
Yardley London Disposable Washcloths
Ingredients explainedWater
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.
Phenoxyethanol
What-it-does: preservative
It’s pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben.
It’s not something new: it was introduced around 1950 and today it can be used up to 1% worldwide. It can be found in nature - in green tea - but the version used in cosmetics is synthetic.
Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10).
It’s often used together with ethylhexylglycerin as it nicely improves the preservative activity of phenoxyethanol.
Fragrance - 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!).
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 >>
Propylene Glycol
What-it-does: moisturizer/humectant, solvent | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
- It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products
- It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer
- It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section)
Read all the geeky details about Propylene Glycol here >>
Polysorbate 20
What-it-does: emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
It's a common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together. Also, it can help to increase the solubility of some other ingredients in the formula.
Benzoic Acid
What-it-does: preservative
An Ecocert-approved, natural preservative that counts as gentle and non-irritating to the skin. Usually, it comes to the formulaas part of a preservativeblendas it's not enough on its own.
Dehydroacetic Acid
Also-called: Geogard 111A | What-it-does: preservative
A helper ingredient that helps to makethe products stay nice longer, akapreservative. It works mainly against fungi and has only milder effect against bacteria.
It is Ecocert and Cosmos approved, works quite well at low concentrations (0.1-0.6%) and is popular in natural products.
Cetrimonium Chloride
What-it-does: antimicrobial/antibacterial, emulsifying, preservative, surfactant/cleansing
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Tetrasodium EDTA
What-it-does: chelating
A handy 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.
Tocopheryl Acetate
Also-called: Vitamin E Acetate | What-it-does: antioxidant | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
It’s the most commonly used version of pure vitamin E in cosmetics. You can read all about the pure form here. This one is the so-called esterified version.
According to famous dermatologist, Leslie Baumann while tocopheryl acetate is more stable and has a longer shelf life, it’s also more poorly absorbed by the skin and may not have the same awesome photoprotective effects as pure Vit E.
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, viscosity controlling
Super common ingredient in all kinds of cleansing products: face and body washes, shampoos and foam baths.
Number one reason for its popularity has to do with bubbles. Everyone loves bubbles. And cocamidopropyl betaine is great at stabilizing them.
The other reason is that it’s mild and works very well combined with other cleansing agents and surfactants. The art of cleansing is usually to balance between properly cleansing but not over-cleansing and cocamidopropyl betaine is helpful in pulling off this balance right.
Oh, and one more nice thing: even though it’s synthetic it’s highly biodegradable.
More info on CAPB on Collins Beaty Pages.
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract - goodie
Also-called: Aloe Leaf Extract | What-it-does: soothing, emollient, moisturizer/humectant
The extract coming from thejuice containing leaves of the Aloe vera plant. It's usually ahydroglycolicextract (though oil extractfor the lipid parts also exists) that has similar moisturizing, emollient and anti-inflammatory properties as the juice itself. We have written some more about aloe here.
Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract - goodie
Also-called: Roman Chamomile Flower Extract | What-it-does: soothing, perfuming
There are two primary types of Chamomile, the German and the Roman. Both has soothing properties, but the German one contains more anti-inflammatory actives (like chamazulene). The anti-inflammatory action of the Roman Chamomile is due to phenolic compounds and - according to manufacturer info- it also has some nice skin toning properties.
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