ingredients Archives – Beautiful With Brains https://www.beautifulwithbrains.com/category/ingredients/ Taking the guesswork out of skincare Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:51:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 How To Read A Skincare Ingredient List (Even If You Hate Science) https://www.beautifulwithbrains.com/how-to-read-a-cosmetic-ingredient-list/ https://www.beautifulwithbrains.com/how-to-read-a-cosmetic-ingredient-list/#comments Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:06:00 +0000 http://beautifulwithbrains.com/?p=11941 Ever wondered how to read a skincare ingredient list? The law is clear: beauty products must declare their ingredients on the packaging. It’s to keep you safe. If you know something’s in there’s bad for you, you won’t buy it. Crisis averted. Except… How the heck are you supposed to make sense of that incomprehensible […]

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]]> https://www.beautifulwithbrains.com/rosehip-oil-skincare-benefits/feed/ 25 Cyclomethicone: What Does It Do In Skincare? https://www.beautifulwithbrains.com/know-your-ingredients-cyclomethicone/ https://www.beautifulwithbrains.com/know-your-ingredients-cyclomethicone/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:39:00 +0000 http://beautifulwithbrains.wordpress.com/?p=6110 What does Cyclomethicone do in skincare? If you take a look at the back of your skincare products, you’ll find Cyclomethicone has slithered its way almost everywhere. Thank its texture for it. It gives it some unique properties that make it a pleasure for formulators to work with and for us to use. And yet, […]

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]]> https://www.beautifulwithbrains.com/know-your-ingredients-cyclomethicone/feed/ 27 Glycol Stearate: What Is It And How Does It Benefit Skin? https://www.beautifulwithbrains.com/know-your-ingredients-glycol-stearate/ https://www.beautifulwithbrains.com/know-your-ingredients-glycol-stearate/#comments Thu, 18 Jan 2024 07:44:00 +0000 http://beautifulwithbrains.com/?p=19456 What the heck is Glycol Stearate? When I first got serious about skincare and started taking a much closer look at what I put on my face, I saw this chemical is pop up all over the place – even in natural products. What is it doing there? Is it really natural, despite the non-so-natural-sounding […]

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