Three Minutes To Teach You To Read The List Of Cosmetic Ingredients, Worth Collecting!

Do you always feel like reading the bible when you see the ingredient list on cosmetics? But the heart always wants to know what it writes? So Baidu, Baidu, and then Baidu, but there are so many materials in the table, you have never finished Baidu, even if Baidu is finished, you still don't understand...

Then you will be blessed. The purpose of this article is to help you quickly identify the auxiliary ingredients in the cosmetic ingredient list so that you can understand the "Book of Heaven".

These chemical ingredients can be roughly divided into two categories, active ingredients and auxiliary ingredients. It is as if the effective ingredient that determines whether a steamed fish is fresh or not is fish, and the auxiliary ingredients are soy sauce, salt, green onions, etc. Among cosmetic ingredients, auxiliary ingredients include emulsifiers, gels, antioxidants, preservatives, and so on. In fact, most of these 20 chemical substances are auxiliary ingredients, and only a few are the key ingredients that you should pay attention to.

First of all, we need to know that the ingredients on the cosmetic packaging are arranged in order of decreasing percentage content. The more in front of the ingredients, the higher the percentage content; that is to say, we mainly focus on the front part of the ingredients, in other words, the ingredients in the particularly lower position can be ignored directly.

Generally, these substances that are basically harmless and can be ignored have the following characteristics in their names:

1. Most of certain glycols are solvents and moisturizing effects, which can be ignored directly, such as: ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, butanediol;

2. Copolymers, mostly functional carriers or functional polymers, these substances are generally not absorbed by the human body, for example: acrylic (ester) copolymers;

3. Coconut oil, most of them are surfactants, which are cleaning agents. Liby’s advertisements are very clear, for example: coco-based betaine, sodium cocoyl sarcosinate;

4. Plant name + alcohol/oil/fat. These substances may be active ingredients rather than auxiliary ingredients, but most of them are harmless, such as evening primrose oil, shea butter;

5. Certain stearic acid/stearate is generally not a serious problem, usually emulsifiers, such as: diethanol distearic acid, tridecyl stearate, dipolyhydroxy stearate Fatty acid ester, sucrose stearate;

6. A certain silane/siloxane is generally a solvent and is basically safe, for example: polydimethyl silane, epoxy dimethyl siloxane, cyclopentadimethyl siloxane;

7. Some of the substances that we know originally have been written in a different way, such as: ascorbic acid (vitamin C), hyaluronic acid (hyaluronic acid);