A deodorant and anti-perspirant roll-on that dries fast and provides up to 48-hour odour and wellness protection.
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Ingredients overview
Water, Aluminum Chlorohydrate, Propylene Glycol Diethylhexanoate, Steareth-2, Steareth-20, Fragrance, Glycine, Allantoin, Bisabolol, Glycerin, Honey, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit/Leaf Extract, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract, Phenoxyethanol, Carrageenan, Methylparaben, Sea Salt
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Highlights
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Alcohol Free
Key Ingredients
Antioxidant: Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract
Skin-identical ingredient: Glycine, Glycerin
Soothing: Allantoin, Bisabolol, Honey, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract
Other Ingredients
Antimicrobial/antibacterial: Honey
Emollient: Propylene Glycol Diethylhexanoate
Emulsifying: Steareth-2, Steareth-20
Moisturizer/humectant: Glycerin, Honey
Perfuming: Fragrance
Preservative: Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben
Solvent: Water
Surfactant/cleansing: Steareth-2, Steareth-20
Viscosity controlling: Carrageenan
Skim through
| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water | solvent | ||
| Aluminum Chlorohydrate | |||
| Propylene Glycol Diethylhexanoate | emollient | ||
| Steareth-2 | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | 2, 2 | |
| Steareth-20 | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | 1, 2 | |
| Fragrance | perfuming | icky | |
| Glycine | skin-identical ingredient | goodie | |
| Allantoin | soothing | 0, 0 | goodie |
| Bisabolol | soothing | goodie | |
| Glycerin | skin-identical ingredient, moisturizer/humectant | 0, 0 | superstar |
| Honey | soothing, moisturizer/humectant, antimicrobial/antibacterial | goodie | |
| Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract | antioxidant, soothing | goodie | |
| Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit/Leaf Extract | |||
| Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract | antioxidant, soothing | goodie | |
| Phenoxyethanol | preservative | ||
| Carrageenan | viscosity controlling | ||
| Methylparaben | preservative | 0, 0 | |
| Sea Salt |
G&H Protect+ Deodorant & Anti-perspirant Roll-on
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.
Aluminum Chlorohydrate
What-it-does: astringent, deodorant
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Propylene Glycol Diethylhexanoate
What-it-does: emollient
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Steareth-2
What-it-does: emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | Irritancy: 2 | Comedogenicity: 2
A waxy solid materialthat helps oil and water to mix together, akaemulsifier. It is derived from the fatty alcohol, stearyl alcoholby ethoxylating it and thus making the molecule a little water-soluble. This version has only a small amount of ethoxylation and thus the molecule is still largelyoil soluble. It is often mixed with more water-soluble emulsifiers (such as Steareth-20) to create stable emulsion systems.
Steareth-20
What-it-does: emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | Irritancy: 1 | Comedogenicity: 2
A waxy solid materialthat helps oil and water to mix together, aka emulsifier. It is derived from the fatty alcohol called stearyl alcoholby ethoxylating it and thus making the molecule more water-soluble.
The end result is a mostly water-loving emulsifier, also called solubilizer that can help to dissolve small amounts of oil-loving ingredients into water-basedproducts. Or it can be combined with more oil-loving emulsifiers (such asits sister,Steareth-2) to create stable emulsions.
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!).
Glycine - goodie
What-it-does: skin-identical ingredient
A non-essential amino acid (the building blocks of skin proteins, like collagen or elastin), that the body can produce itself, but its production decreases with age. When you put it all over your face, it works as a moisturizer and maybe more.
According to great skincare blogFuturederm, glycine might help with wound healing and tissue repair and when used together with other amino acids,leucine and proline it might improve wrinkles.
BTW, it's also a building block of a bunch of important and famous peptides, including copper-tripeptide-1, palmitoyl tripeptide-1 or palmitoylhexapeptide-12.
Allantoin - goodie
What-it-does: soothing | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
Super common soothing ingredient. It can be found naturally in the roots & leaves of the comfrey plant, but more often than not what's in the cosmeticproductsis produced synthetically.
It's not only soothing but it' also skin-softening and protecting and can promote wound healing.
Bisabolol - goodie
Also-called: Alpha-Bisabolol | What-it-does: soothing
It's one of the active parts ofChamomile that contains about 30% of bisabolol. It's aclear oily fluid that is used in skincare as a nice anti-inflammatory and soothing ingredient.
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 >>
Honey - goodie
Also-called: Mel | What-it-does: soothing, moisturizer/humectant, antimicrobial/antibacterial
We all know honey as the sweet, gooey stuff that is lovely to sweeten a good cup of tea and we have good news about putting honey all over our skin. It is just as lovely on the skin as it is in the tea.
The great review article about honey in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology writes that itis arguably the oldest skincare ingredient and evidence from around 4500 BC mentions honey in some eye cream recipes. Chemically speaking, it is a bee-derived, supersaturated sugar solution. About95%ofhoneydry weight is sugar and the other 5% consists of a great number of other minor components including proteins, amino acids, vitamins, enzymes, and minerals.
This unique and complex chemical composition gives honey a bunch of nice skin care properties: it is very moisturizing, has soothing and antioxidant abilities as well as significant antibacterial and antifungal magic powers. There is also a lot of empirical evidence with emerging scientific backup that honey dressing promotes the healing of wounds and burns.
One tricky thing about honey though, is that it can have lots of different floral sources and different types ofhoneyhave a somewhat different composition and thus somewhat different properties. For example,the darker the honey the richer it is in antioxidant phenolic compounds. Two special types of honey areacacia and manuka. The formeris unique and popular because of its higher than usual fructose content that makes it more water-soluble and easier to stabilize incosmetic formulas. The latter comes from the Leptospermum Scoparium tree native to New Zeland and its special thing is its extra strong antibacterial power due to a unique component called methylglyoxal.
Overall, honey is a real skin-goodie in pretty much every shape and form, and it is a nice one to spot on the ingredient list.
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract - goodie
Also-called: Green Tea | What-it-does: antioxidant, soothing
- Green tea is one of the most researched natural ingredients
- The active parts are called polyphenols, or more precisely catechins (EGCG being the most abundant and most active catechin)
- There can be huge quality differences between green tea extracts. The good ones contain 50-90% catechins (and often make the product brown and give it a distinctive smell)
- Green tea is proven to be a great antioxidant, UV protectant, anti-inflammatory, anticarcinogenic and antimicrobial
- Because of these awesome properties green tea is a great choice for anti-aging and also for skin diseases including rosacea, acne and atopic dermatitis
Read all the geeky details about Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract here >>
Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit/Leaf Extract
What-it-does: astringent
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract - goodie
Also-called: Ginger Root Extract | What-it-does: antioxidant, soothing
The extract coming from ginger, the lovely spice that we all know from the kitchen. It is also a medicinal plant used both in Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine for pretty much everything you can imagine (muscular pain, sore throat, nausea, fever or cramps, just to give a few examples).
As for ginger and skincare, the root extract contains the biologically active component called gingerolthat has potentantioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Combined with Bisabolol, the duo works synergistically to sooth the skin and take down redness.
Other than that, ginger also contains moisturizing polysaccharides,amino acids,and sugars, and it is also quite well known to increaseblood circulation and have a toningeffect.
Last but not least, Ginger alsohas some volatile, essential oil compounds (1-3%). Those are mostly present in ginger oil, but small amounts might be in the extract as well (around 0.5% based on manufacturer info).
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.
Carrageenan
What-it-does: viscosity controlling
A natural polysaccharide(big sugar molecule) coming fromred edible seaweeds. It isused as a helper ingredientfor itsgelling, thickening and stabilizing properties.
Methylparaben
What-it-does: preservative | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
The most common type offeared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason parabens. It's a cheap, effective and well-tolerated ingredient to make sure the cosmetic formula does not go wrong too soon.
Apart from the general controversy around parabens (we wrote about it more here), there is a 2006 in-vitro (made in the lab not on real people) research about methylparaben (MP) showing that when exposed to sunlight, MP treated skin cells suffered more harm than non-MPtreated skin cells. The study was not done with real people on real skin but still - using a good sunscreen next to MP containing productsis a good idea. (Well, in fact using a sunscreen is always a good idea. :))
Sea Salt
Also-called: Maris Sal
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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