A gel-textured makeup removing water that uses micellar technology to gently lift makeup from skin to cleanse and refresh in one smart step without harsh rubbing or rinsing.
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Ingredients overview
Aqua (Water), Butylene Glycol, PEG/PPG-35/40 Dimethyl Ether, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Trisodium EDTA, Cucumis Sativus [Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract], Chamomilla Recutita [Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract], Sodium Hyaluronate
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Highlights
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Alcohol Free
Fragrance and Essential Oil Free
Key Ingredients
Antioxidant: Chamomilla Recutita [Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract]
Skin-identical ingredient: Sodium Hyaluronate
Soothing: Cucumis Sativus [Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract], Chamomilla Recutita [Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract]
Other Ingredients
Chelating: Trisodium EDTA
Emollient: Cucumis Sativus [Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract]
Moisturizer/humectant: Butylene Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate
Preservative: Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin
Solvent: Aqua (Water), Butylene Glycol
Skim through
| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua (Water) | solvent | ||
| Butylene Glycol | moisturizer/humectant, solvent | 0, 1 | |
| PEG/PPG-35/40 Dimethyl Ether | |||
| Phenoxyethanol | preservative | ||
| Ethylhexylglycerin | preservative | ||
| Trisodium EDTA | chelating | ||
| Cucumis Sativus [Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract] | soothing, emollient | goodie | |
| Chamomilla Recutita [Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract] | soothing, antioxidant | 0, 0 | goodie |
| Sodium Hyaluronate | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | goodie |
Nars Aqua Infused Makeup Removing Water
Ingredients explainedAqua (Water)
Also-called: Water | 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.
Butylene Glycol
What-it-does: moisturizer/humectant, solvent | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 1
Butylene glycol, or let’s just call it BG, is a multi-tasking colorless, syrupy liquid. It’s a great pick for creating a nice feeling product.
BG’s main job is usually to be a solvent for the other ingredients. Other tasks include helping the product to absorb faster and deeper into the skin (penetration enhancer), making the product spread nicely over the skin (slip agent), and attracting water (humectant) into the skin.
It’s an ingredient whose safety hasn’t been questioned so far by anyone (at least not that we know about). BG is approved by Ecocert and is also used enthusiastically in natural products. BTW, it’s also a food additive.
PEG/PPG-35/40 Dimethyl Ether
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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.
Ethylhexylglycerin
What-it-does: preservative, deodorant
If you have spottedethylhexylglycerinon the ingredient list, most probably you will see there also the current IT-preservative,phenoxyethanol. They are good friends becauseethylhexylglycerincan boost the effectiveness of phenoxyethanol (and other preservatives) and as an added bonus it feels nice on the skin too.
Also,it's an effective deodorant and a medium spreadingemollient.
Trisodium EDTA
What-it-does: chelating
A common helper ingredient that works as a so-called chelating agent. Ithelps products to remain nice and stable for a longer timeby neutralizing the metal ions in the formula (that usually get into there from water) that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes.
Cucumis Sativus [Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract] - goodie
Also-called: Cucumber Fruit Extract;Cucumis Sativus Fruit Extract | What-it-does: soothing, emollient
Cucumber is a nice, non-irritating plant extract that’s known for it’s soothing and emollient properties. It’s not something new to put it on our face: even Cleopatra used it to “preserve her skin”.
It’s commonly believed that cucumber is the answer to puffy eyes, but there is no research confirming this. What research does confirm is that it contains amino acids and organic acids that’s helpful for the skin’s acid mantle. There is also an enzyme (called shikimate dehydrigenase) in the pulp that’s shown to have anti-inflammatory properties.
Chamomilla Recutita [Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract] - goodie
Also-called: German Chamomile Flower Extract;Chamomilla Recutita Flower Extract | What-it-does: soothing, antioxidant | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
Chamomileprobably needs no introduction as it's one of the most widely used medicinal herbs. You probably drink it regularly as a nice, calming cup of tea and it's also a regular on skincare ingredient lists.
Cosmetic companies use it mainly for its anti-inflammatory properties. It contains the terpenoids chamazulene and bisabolol both of which show great anti-inflammatory action in animal studies. On top of that chamomile also has some antioxidant activity (thanks to some other active ingredients called matricine, apigenin and luteolin).
Though chamomile is usually a goodie for the skin, it's also not uncommon to have anallergic reaction to it.
Sodium Hyaluronate - goodie
What-it-does: skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
It’s the - sodium form - cousin of the famous NMF,hyaluronic acid(HA). If HA does not tell you anything we have a super detailed, geeky explanation about it here. The TL; DR version of HA is that it's a huge polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) found in the skin that acts as a sponge helping the skin to hold onto water, being plump and elastic. HA is famous for its crazy water holding capacity as it can bind up to 1000 times its own weight in water.
As far as skincare goes, sodium hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid are pretty much the same and the two names are used interchangeably. As cosmetic chemist kindofstephenwrites on reddit "sodium hyaluronate disassociates into hyaluronic acid molecule and a sodium atom in solution".
In spite of this, if you search for "hyaluronic acid vs sodium hyaluronate" you will find on multiple places that sodium hyaluronate is smaller and can penetrate the skin better. Chemically, this is definitely not true, as the two forms are almost the same, both are polymers and the subunits can be repeated in both forms as much as you like. (We also checkedProspector for sodium hyaluronate versions actually used in cosmetic products and found that the most common molecular weight was 1.5-1.8 million Da that absolutely counts as high molecular weight).
What seems to be a true difference, though, is that the salt form is more stable, easier to formulate andcheaper so it pops up more often on the ingredient lists.
If you wanna become a real HA-and-the-skin expert you can read way more about the topic at hyaluronic acid(including penetration-questions, differences between high and low molecular weight versions and a bunch of references to scientific literature).
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Normal (well kind of - it's purified and deionized) water. Usually the main solvent in cosmetic products. [more] An often used glycol that works as a solvent, humectant, penetration enhancer and also gives a good slip to the products. [more] Pretty much the current IT-preservative. It’s safe and gentle, and can be used up to 1% worldwide. [more] It can boost the effectiveness of phenoxyethanol (and other preservatives) and as an added bonus it feels nice on the skin too. [more] A common helper ingredient that works as a so-called chelating agent. Ithelps products to remain nice and stable for a longer timeby neutralizing the metal ions in the formula (that usually get into there from water) that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes. [more] Cucumber is a nice, non-irritating plant extract that’s known for it’s soothing and emollient properties. [more] Chamomile extract - has great anti-inflammatory and some antioxidant properties. [more] It's the salt form of famous humectant and natural moisturizing factor, hyaluronic acid. It can bind huge amounts of water and it's pretty much the current IT-moisturizer. [more] what‑it‑does solvent what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | solvent irritancy,com. 0, 1 what‑it‑does preservative what‑it‑does preservative what‑it‑does chelating what‑it‑does soothing | emollient what‑it‑does soothing | antioxidant irritancy,com. 0, 0 what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | moisturizer/humectant irritancy,com. 0, 0
