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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.
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A faster-acting cousin of retinol (vitamin A family) for cell turnover and anti-aging.moreRetinaldehyde, a vitamin A derivative that sits just one conversion step away from active retinoic acid (versus two for retinol), so it works faster while staying gentler and better tolerated than prescription tretinoin. Full ingredient page → | — | strong | |
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 | |
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9Cetyl AlcoholFatty alcohol (non-drying) | emulsion stabilising, fragrance, opacifying, skin conditioning - emollient, surfactant - cleansing, surfactant - emulsifying, surfactant - foam boosting, viscosity controllingmoreA fatty alcohol — a waxy, solid C16 alcohol (often from coconut or palm kernel oil) — and a good example of why 'alcohol' on a label is not automatically drying. Unlike the small, volatile solvent alcohols such as alcohol denat. Full ingredient page → | 2 | moderate |
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16Squalane | A lightweight, skin-identical oil that moisturizes without clogging.moreA lightweight, skin-identical emollient oil made by hydrogenating squalene, a lipid our own skin produces in sebum. Full ingredient page → | 1 | limited |
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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Its ingredients appear in 12 peer-reviewed studies we track.Start with Vitamin E →
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In label order — earlier usually means more of it. Highlighted names are the evidence-backed actives.
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