Rating: Good
Categories: Humectant
Excellent hydrating ingredient due to its humectant (water-binding) properties. Also helps soften skin and can be used to enhance formulary texture.

Rating: Good
Categories: Humectant
A moisturizing and conditioning ingredient made by combining polyethylene glycol with glucose. It’s been evaluated and ruled safe as used in cosmetics.

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: Texture-Enhancer, Emulsifier, Cleansing-Agent
Gentle multi-tasking fatty alcohol that acts as a moisturizer and cleansing agent in skin care and helps keep other ingredients intact in a formulation. It has been ruled safe as used in cosmetics

Rating: Good
Categories: Film-Forming-Agent
Versatile ingredient that plays many different roles including film-former, suspending/binding agent and emollient.

Rating: Best
Categories: Plant-Extracts, Antioxidant
A type of green tea plant, this ingredient has antioxidant and soothing properties that make it an impressive addition to skin care products.

Rating: Best
Categories: Plant-Extracts, Antioxidant
The Latin name for the flower extract of a type of chamomile. It has soothing and antioxidant properties.

Rating: Good
Categories: Emollient, Emulsifier
This vegetable-derived ingredient acts as both a skin-softening ingredient and moisturizer in skin care products.

Rating: Good
Categories: Texture-Enhancer, Solvent
Emollient, solvent, and texture enhancer.

Rating: Good
Categories: Cleansing-Agent, Texture-Enhancer, Emulsifier
Works in various capacities as a cleansing agent/emulsifier/texture enhancer.

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: Chelating-Agent
One of the salt forms of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, it improves the stability of other cosmetics ingredients, helping them last longer. It’s been deemed safe as used in cosmetics and is even used as an additive in some foods.

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: Good
Categories: Preservative, Plant-Extracts
Conditions skin and hair and is a moisturizing ingredient in many skin care products. Because of its antibacterial action, it also is an effective cosmetics preservative.

Rating: Good
Categories: Solvent, Texture-Enhancer
Solvent that is well-known for producing smooth spreadability and more pleasing textures in skin care formulas. Also used to enhance the efficacy of cosmetic preservative phenoxyethanol so it works better in lower amounts.

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.