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Fragrance ingredients some people react to (the EU requires listing these): Benzyl Alcohol, Benzyl Salicylate, Limonene, Linalool
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The ingredients doing the work — the reason you'd buy it.
Every ingredient in label order — what it does, how likely it is to clog pores, and how strong the research is. Expand a row for the plain-words read.
| Ingredient | What it does | Comedogenic | Evidence |
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1AquaWater | solventmoreWater (Aqua) is the solvent base of most skincare and haircare products and usually the first, largest ingredient on the label. Full ingredient page → | — | |
2Alcohol DenatDrying alcohol | Denatured alcohol; can be drying with frequent use.moreDenatured alcohol is ordinary ethanol with bittering or toxic additives mixed in so it can't be consumed, used purely for tax and regulatory reasons. Full ingredient page → | — | moderate |
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One of the most reliable moisture-binding ingredients in skincare.moreThe gold-standard humectant in skincare: a small, water-loving (hygroscopic) molecule that is also part of skin's own natural moisturizing factor. Full ingredient page → | 0 | strong | |
6Glycolic AcidAHA exfoliant | The strongest common AHA exfoliant; smooths texture and fades dark spots.moreGlycolic acid is the smallest and strongest of the common alpha hydroxy acids (AHAs); it dissolves the bonds holding dead surface cells together to smooth texture, fade dark spots, and boost collagen. Full ingredient page → | — | strong |
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A stable vitamin C derivative that brightens gradually with low irritation.moreA stable, water-soluble vitamin C derivative (ascorbic acid bonded to glucose) that converts to pure vitamin C in the skin, delivering gradual antioxidant, brightening, and collagen-supporting benefits with less irritation than pure ascorbic acid. Full ingredient page → | — | moderate | |
perfuming, preservative, solvent, viscosity controllingmoreA multitasking aromatic alcohol that occurs naturally in many plants and essential oils (jasmine, ylang-ylang): it works as a solvent and as a bacteriostatic preservative in cosmetics, and also contributes a mild sweet-floral scent as a fragrance ingredient. Full ingredient page → | — | moderate | |
perfuming, uv absorbermoreA fragrance ingredient (the benzyl ester of salicylic acid; occurs naturally in some plants) with a very faint sweet-floral, slightly balsamic scent, used to add scent and as a fixative in floral blends (and sometimes as a UV-light absorber). Full ingredient page → | — | moderate | |
13Limonene | deodorant, perfuming, solventmoreA fragrance ingredient — the main scent compound of citrus-peel oils, giving a fresh citrus/orange smell — added purely for scent, and one of the fragrance allergens the EU requires to be declared on cosmetic labels (Annex III). Full ingredient page → | — | moderate |
Comedogenic is a 0–5 pore-clogging likelihood — a contested measure, take it lightly. No marker = unremarkable or not yet researched — we never fake a rating.
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In label order — earlier usually means more of it. Highlighted names are the evidence-backed actives.
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