Australian formulated and infused with ORGANIC SUPERFOOD ingredients, this at-home nail polish remover helps strengthen, thicken, smooth out the nails. Eliminates nail discolouration and boosts resiliency against nail chipping.
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Ingredients overview
Water, Propylene Carbonate, Propanediol, Glutamate, Polysorbate 20, Ethanol, Diethyl Succinate, Dimethyl Adipate, Phenoxyethanol, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Glycerin, Tocopherol Acetate (Vitamin E), D-Panthenol, Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Gel, Rosa Damascena Flower Water, Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Extract
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Highlights
#fragrance & essentialoil-free
Fragrance and Essential Oil Free
Key Ingredients
Antioxidant: Tocopherol Acetate (Vitamin E)
Skin-identical ingredient: Glycerin
Soothing: D-Panthenol, Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Gel
Other Ingredients
Antimicrobial/antibacterial: Ethanol
Emollient: Dimethyl Adipate, Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Extract
Emulsifying: Polysorbate 20
Moisturizer/humectant: Propanediol, Glutamate, Glycerin, D-Panthenol, Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Gel
Preservative: Phenoxyethanol, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate
Solvent: Water, Propylene Carbonate, Propanediol, Ethanol, Diethyl Succinate, Dimethyl Adipate
Surfactant/cleansing: Polysorbate 20
Viscosity controlling: Propylene Carbonate, Ethanol
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| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water | solvent | ||
| Propylene Carbonate | solvent, viscosity controlling | ||
| Propanediol | solvent, moisturizer/humectant | ||
| Glutamate | moisturizer/humectant | ||
| Polysorbate 20 | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | 0, 0 | |
| Ethanol | antimicrobial/antibacterial, solvent, viscosity controlling | icky | |
| Diethyl Succinate | solvent | ||
| Dimethyl Adipate | emollient, solvent | ||
| Phenoxyethanol | preservative | ||
| Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate | preservative | ||
| Glycerin | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
| Tocopherol Acetate (Vitamin E) | antioxidant | 0, 0 | |
| D-Panthenol | soothing, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | goodie |
| Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Gel | soothing, moisturizer/humectant | goodie | |
| Rosa Damascena Flower Water | |||
| Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Extract | emollient |
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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.
Propylene Carbonate
What-it-does: solvent, viscosity controlling
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Propanediol
Also-called: Zemea | What-it-does: solvent, moisturizer/humectant
Propanediol is a natural alternative for the often usedand often bad-mouthed propylene glycol. It's produced sustainably from corn sugar and it's Ecocert approved.
It's quite a multi-tasker: can be used to improve skin moisturization, as a solvent, to boost preservative efficacyor to influence the sensory properties of the end formula.
Glutamate
What-it-does: moisturizer/humectant
Glutamic acid is a little molecule and non-essential (our body can synthesize it) amino acid with the important job ofbeing a neurotransmitter in the human body meaningthat it helps your nervous system work correctly.
As for what it's doing in cosmetics, Glutamic acids'main thing (similar to other amino acids) is being a humectant moisturizer and skin-conditioning agent (sidenote: if you attach lots of glutamic acid molecules, you get polyglutamic acid that is claimed to be a better than hyaluronic acid humectant).It also seems to affect skin barrier repair, however, it is not clear-cut in which direction.
The complication is that glutamic acid has twodistinct forms, L-glutamic acid and D-glutamic acid, that are the mirror images of each other (think of it like your left and right hand).Studies show that a topical application of L-glutamic acid on damaged skin delayed skin repair, while D-glutamic acid application sped up skin repair.As both forms are used by the industry, it is a bit uncertain what you are getting with just glutamic acid on the ingredient list(but if it is aShiseido group product, it is probably thegoodie D-form:)).
Other than that, Glutamic acid can also be used as a pH adjuster and can be processed via biological pathways into pyrrolidone carboxylic acid, the sodium salt of which is a goodie and one of your skin’s natural moisturizing factors.
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.
Ethanol - icky
Also-called: Alcohol | What-it-does: antimicrobial/antibacterial, solvent, viscosity controlling, astringent
Simply alcohol refers to ethanol and it's a pretty controversial ingredient. It has many instant benefits: it's a great solvent, penetration enhancer, creates cosmetically elegant, light formulas, great astringent and antimicrobial. No wonder it's popular in toners and oily skin formulas.
The downside is that it can be very drying if it's in the first few ingredients on an ingredient list.
Some experts even think that regular exposure to alcohol damages skin barrier and causes inflammation though it's a debated opinion. If you wanna know more, we wrote a more detailed explanation about what's the deal with alcohol in skincare products at alcohol denat.(it's also alcohol, but with some additives to make sure no one drinks it).
Diethyl Succinate
What-it-does: solvent
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Dimethyl Adipate
What-it-does: emollient, solvent
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.
Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate
What-it-does: preservative
It's one of those things that help your cosmetics not to go wrong too soon, aka a preservative. Its strong point is being effective againstyeasts and molds, and as a nice bonus seems to be non-comedogenic as well.
It is safe in concentrations of less than 0.1%but is acutely toxic when inhaled, so it's not the proper preservative choice for aerosol formulas like hairsprays. Used at 0.1%, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate has an extremely low rate of skin-irritation when applied directly for 24 hours (around 0.1% of 4,883 participants) and after 48 hours that figure was 0.5%, so it counts as mild and safe unless your skin is super-duper sensitive.
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 >>
Tocopherol Acetate (Vitamin E)
Also-called: Vitamin E Acetate;Tocopheryl 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.
D-Panthenol - goodie
Also-called: Pro-Vitamin B5;Panthenol | What-it-does: soothing, moisturizer/humectant | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
An easy-to-formulate, commonly used, nice to have ingredient that’s also called pro-vitamin B5. As you might guess from the “pro” part, it’s a precursor to vitamin B5 (whose fancy name is pantothenic acid).
Its main job in skincare products is to moisturise the skin. It’s a humectant meaning that it can help the skin to attract water and then hold onto it. There is also research showing that panthenol can help our skin to produce more lovely lipids that are important for a strong and healthy skin barrier.
Another great thing about panthenol is that it has anti-inflammatory and skin protecting abilities. A study shows that it can reduce the irritation caused by less-nice other ingredients (e.g. fragrance, preservatives or chemical sunscreens) in the product.
Research also shows that it might be useful for wound healing as it promotes fibroblast (nice type of cells in our skin that produce skin-firming collagen) proliferation.
If that wasn’t enough panthenol is also useful in nail and hair care products. A study shows that a nail treatment liquide with 2% panthenol could effectively get into the nail and significantly increase the hydration of it.
As for the hair the hydration effect is also true there. Panthenol might make your hair softer, more elastic and helps to comb your hair more easily.
Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Gel - goodie
Also-called: Aloe Vera;Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice | What-it-does: soothing, moisturizer/humectant
Aloe Vera is one of today’s magic plants. It does have some very nice properties indeed, though famous dermatologist Leslie Baumann warns us in her book that most of the evidence is anecdotal and the plant might be a bit overhyped.
What research does confirm about Aloe is that it’s a great moisturizer and has several anti-inflammatory (among others contains salicylates, polysaccharides, magnesium lactate and C-glucosyl chromone) as well as some antibacterial components. It also helps wound healing and skin regeneration in general. All in all definitely a goodie.
Rosa Damascena Flower Water
Also-called: Damask Rose Flower Water, Rose Hydrosol
The flower water coming from the flowers of the Damask Rose.In general, flower waters (also called hydrosols) are diluted versions of essential oils coming from the same plant. They contain the same components but in much-reduced concentrations.
Similar to its big sister,rose oil,rose water also has a lovely, relaxing scent. It contains some antioxidant and antimicrobial compounds, as well as some fragrant components.
If your skin is super sensitive, it is a good idea to choose products without fragrant floral waters.
Actinidia Chinensis (Kiwi) Fruit Extract
Also-called: Kiwi Extract | What-it-does: emollient
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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