Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient, Plant-Extracts, Antioxidant
Non-fragrant plant oil from the passion fruit plant, and a rich source of fatty acids and antioxidants.

Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient
This type of ceramide helps strengthen skin’s barrier against external stimuli.

Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient
Formerly known as ceramide 1, this ingredient helps replenish factors that defend skin from environmental stressors.

Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient
This type of ceramide helps improve the look and feel of skin thanks to its water retention properties.

Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient
Provides barrier strengthening properties and helps skin retain moisture for a more hydrated, supple appearance.

Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient
Ceramide ingredient that helps replenish hydration in skin’s uppermost layers and contributes to a smooth feel and healthier-looking surface.

Rating: Best
Categories: Antioxidant, Emollient, Plant-Extracts
An unsaponifiable oil is the portion of a plant oil that is not broken down when the oil's fatty acids are refined for use in cosmetics products.

Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient
Ceramide ingredient that works to replenish and restore a healthier-looking skin surface, creating a smooth, hydrated feel. Effective for stopping moisture loss from skin’s uppermost layers.

Rating: Best
Categories: Humectant, Antioxidant
The more bio-available, salt form of hyaluronic acid. I’s considered an excellent moisturizer, helping skin retain water so it looks and feels smoother.

Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient
Plays a key role in maintaining skin's health, softness, and hydration.

Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient
This ceramide helps restore skin’s hydration, texture, and suppleness.

Rating: Best
Categories: Antioxidant, Plant-Extracts, Emollient
Also known as shea butter, this a plant lipid used as an emollient in cosmetics. It also provides antioxidant benefits.

Rating: Best
Categories: Antioxidant
One of four forms of vitamin E. It can be naturally or synthetically derived. Regardless of its origin, tocopherol has potent oil-soluble antioxidant properties and can help defend skin from pollution and environmental stressors.

Rating: Good
Categories: Suspending-Dispersing-Agent, Texture-Enhancer, Polymer
A synthetic polymer whose versatility gives it many aesthetically pleasing uses in cosmetics while helping create and maintain stable, effective formulas.

Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient, Antioxidant, Plant-Extracts
Natural oil rich in skin-beneficial fatty acids, vitamins and antioxidant compounds that help prevent environmental damage. Also known as plum oil.

Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient, Emulsifier, Cleansing-Agent
An emollient that aids the integration of key ingredients into skin’s surface while helping to impart a smooth, soft feel. It can also function as an emulsifier.

Rating: Best
Categories: Emollient, Emulsifier, Suspending-Dispersing-Agent
Plays many different roles including dispersing agent, skin-conditioning emollient, and emulsifying agent. Enhances the penetration of other ingredients for greater efficacy.

Rating: Good
Categories: Chelating-Agent
Synthetic salt form of the antioxidant phytic acid. Acts as a stabilizer and chelating agent to keep metals such as iron and copper from binding to water in the formula.

Rating: Good
Categories: Humectant
Humectant plant sugar that boosts skin’s hydration and offers antioxidant properties to help preserve youthfulness.

Rating: Good
Categories: Texture-Enhancer, Emulsifier, Cleansing-Agent
Multitasking ingredient that plays various roles including cleansing agent, solvent, texture enhancer, and skin-conditioning agent. Imparts a non-greasy, lightweight, silky feel.

Rating: Good
Categories: Film-Forming-Agent, Texture-Enhancer, Polymer
This polymer and film-forming agent is also used as a replacement for silicones in cosmetics. It can be naturally derived or produced synthetically.

Rating: Good
Categories: Texture-Enhancer, Cleansing-Agent, Emulsifier
This naturally derived ingredient is produced from the fermentation of simple sugars, and acts as a thickening agent, texture enhancer, and emulsion stabilizer in cosmetics.

Rating: Good
Categories: Texture-Enhancer, Emollient, Emulsifier
This moisturizing ingredient can be either naturally or synthetically derived. It’s one of the longest-known fatty alcohols.

Rating: Best
Categories: Antioxidant
Highly stable form of vitamin C that protects skin from oxidative damage and collagen breakdown.

Rating: Good
Categories: Texture-Enhancer, Plant-Extracts, Absorbent
Primarily used as a thickening agent, but also has film-forming and absorbent properties. Can be used to impart glossy shine.

Rating: Good
Categories: Emollient, Emulsifier, Cleansing-Agent
This moisturizing ingredient is found naturally in the human body but is usually plant- or synthetically derived in cosmetics. It has been deemed safe as used in cosmetics and is also used as a food additive.

Rating: Good
Categories: Emulsifier, Cleansing-Agent
This versatile fatty alcohol works as a surfactant and emulsifier in cosmetics. It can be derived from plants, animals, or manufactured synthetically.

Rating: Good
Categories: Cleansing-Agent, Emulsifier
Emulsifier and mild cleansing agents that also improves penetration of key ingredients without irritating skin.

Rating: Good
Categories: Texture-Enhancer, Emollient
Beneficial skin softening ingredient for skin (completely different from damaging/drying forms of alcohol). Also influences the foaming effects of a cleanser.

Rating: Good
Categories: Texture-Enhancer, Cleansing-Agent
A synthetic or plant-derived long-chain fatty acid that primarily serves to thicken and opacify skin care and makeup products but can also assist cleansing agents.

Rating: Good
Categories: Ph-Adjuster-Stabilizer, Chelating-Agent
Ingredient used in skin care products to adjust a formula's pH. In the right concentration/formula, it can also exfoliate skin.

Rating: Average
Categories: Preservative, Solvent, Texture-Enhancer
Derived from natural sources, this non-drying alcohol serves as a preservative in cosmetics products, and is considered one of the least-sensitizing preservatives in use.

Rating: Good
Categories: Preservative
Safe preservative known to be well-tolerated by skin; offers wide spectrum protection against unwanted microbials in a formula.

Rating: Good
Categories: Preservative, Humectant
Skin-softening agent with hydration boosting properties. Also plays an important preservative role to help keep cosmetic formulas stable.