Equate Beauty Makeup Remover Cleansing Towelettes are a gentle way to put your best face forward each day. These towelettes are pre-moistened, so you can use them immediately, without adding water. They quickly dissolve all traces of dirt, oil, and makeup from your face and neck. Even hard to remove waterproof mascara doesn't stand a chance. After using, your face will feel thoroughly clean and will be ready for the next step in your skin care regime. Both alcohol-free and oil-free, these towelettes work for a variety of skin types, and they won't irritate your skin with daily use.
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Ingredients overview
Water, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Polysorbate 20, Phenoxyethanol, Dmdm Hydantoin, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Polyquaternium-7, Ceteth-2, Ceteareth-25, Glyceryl Stearate, Octyldodecanol, Dimethicone, Cetyl Palmitate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Citric Acid, Fragrance
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Highlights
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Alcohol Free
Buffering: Citric Acid
Emollient: Glyceryl Stearate, Octyldodecanol, Dimethicone, Cetyl Palmitate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate
Emulsifying: Polysorbate 20, Ceteth-2, Ceteareth-25, Glyceryl Stearate
Perfuming: Octyldodecanol, Fragrance
Preservative: Phenoxyethanol, Dmdm Hydantoin, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate
Solvent: Water
Surfactant/cleansing: Polysorbate 20, Ceteareth-25
Viscosity controlling: Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride
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| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water | solvent | ||
| Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride | viscosity controlling | ||
| Polysorbate 20 | emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | 0, 0 | |
| Phenoxyethanol | preservative | ||
| Dmdm Hydantoin | preservative | icky | |
| Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate | preservative | ||
| Polyquaternium-7 | |||
| Ceteth-2 | emulsifying | ||
| Ceteareth-25 | surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying | ||
| Glyceryl Stearate | emollient, emulsifying | 0, 1-2 | |
| Octyldodecanol | emollient, perfuming | ||
| Dimethicone | emollient | 0, 1 | |
| Cetyl Palmitate | emollient | 0, 0 | |
| Ethylhexyl Palmitate | emollient | 0, 2-4 | |
| Citric Acid | buffering | ||
| Fragrance | perfuming | icky |
Equate Beauty Makeup Remover Wipes
Water
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.
Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride
What-it-does: viscosity controlling
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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.
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.
Dmdm Hydantoin - icky
What-it-does: preservative
A controversial preservative that hasformaldehyde-releasing properties. It works great against bacteria and also has mildfungicide abilities.
Cosmetic chemist, Colin wrote a great article about formaldehyde and DMDM Hydantoin. He writes that formaldehyde is the perfect example of "the dose makes the poison" principle. It's a natural stuff that can also be found in fresh fruits and vegetables, and eating it in tiny amounts is totally ok. However, in larger amounts (according to Wikipedia30 mL of a solution containing 37% formaldehyde) it's deadly.
The amount offormaldehyde used in cosmetics either neat or throughformaldehyde-releasing preservatives is tiny. Probably that is why the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Broad concluded both in 1988 and in 2008 that DMDM Hydantoin is "safe as used in cosmetics".
However, Colins argues that in the case of formaldehyde-releasing preservatives,formaldehyde is released slowly and the skin has probably not evolved to deal with that. The lingeringformaldehyde might be toxic tothe Langerhans Cells that are important for the skin's defense system. Another potential issue is that formaldehyde-releasers might also release other things while reacting with amino acids in the skin that is probably the explanation why some people are not allergic to formaldehyde but are allergic to formaldehyde-releasing preservatives. These are all theories, far from proven facts, but we feel that there are some justified reasons whyformaldehyde-releasing preservatives andDmdm Hydantoin count as controversial.
All in all, it's up to you to decide if you wanna avoid this preservative groupor not. If so,there are other, less risky and more skin-friendly options out there.
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.
Polyquaternium-7
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Ceteth-2
What-it-does: emulsifying
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Ceteareth-25
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
Glyceryl Stearate
What-it-does: emollient, emulsifying | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 1-2
A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth.
Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid calledstearic acid. It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fattyacidmolecules are attached to glycerin instead of just one like here) in a pretty simple, "green" process that is similar to soap making. It's readily biodegradable.
It also occurs naturally in our body and is used as a food additive. As cosmetic chemistColins writes it, "its safety really is beyond any doubt".
Octyldodecanol
What-it-does: emollient, perfuming
A clear, slightly yellow, odorless oil that's a very common, medium-spreadingemollient. It makes the skin feel nice and smooth and works in a wide range of formulas.
Dimethicone
What-it-does: emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 1
Probably themost common silicone of all. It is a polymer (created from repeating subunits) molecule and has different molecular weight and thus different viscosity versions from water-light to thickliquid.
As for skincare, it makes the skin silky smooth, creates a subtle gloss and forms a protective barrier (aka occlusive). Also, works well to fill in fine lines and wrinkles and give skin a plump look (of course that is only temporary, but still, it'snice). There are also scar treatment gels out there using dimethicone as their base ingredient. It helps to soften scars and increase their elasticity.
As for hair care, it is a non-volatile silicone meaning that it stays on the hair rather than evaporates from it andsmoothes the hairlike no other thing. Depending on your hair type, it can bea bit difficult to wash out and might cause some build-up (btw, this is not true to all silicones, only the non-volatile types).
Cetyl Palmitate
What-it-does: emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
A white, waxy emollient that gives "body" to skincare formulas. Comes from coconutor palm kernel oil.
Ethylhexyl Palmitate
What-it-does: emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 2-4
A super common, medium-spreading emollient ester that gives richness to the formulaand a mild feel during rubout. It can be a replacement for mineral oil and is often combined with other emollients to achievedifferent sensorial properties.
Citric Acid
What-it-does: buffering
Citric acid comes from citrus fruits and is an AHA. If these magic three letters don’t tell you anything, click here and read our detailed description on glycolic acid, the most famous AHA.
So citric acid is an exfoliant, that can - just like other AHAs - gently lift off the dead skin cells of your skin and make it more smooth and fresh.
There is also some research showing that citric acid with regular use (think three monthsand 20% concentration) can help sun-damaged skin, increase skin thickness and some nice hydrating things called glycosaminoglycans in the skin.
But according to a comparative study done in 1995, citric acid has less skin improving magic properties than glycolic or lactic acid. Probably that’s why citric acid is usually not used as an exfoliant but more as a helper ingredient in small amounts to adjust the pH of a formulation.
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!).
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