Rating: Good
Categories: Cleansing-Agent, Emulsifier
This mild cleansing agent is considered much gentler than sodium lauryl sulfate and often used with other mild surfactants to produce cleansers for sensitive skin.

Rating: Good
Categories: Texture-Enhancer, Plant-Extracts
This water-soluble polymer helps thicken and control the viscosity of cosmetics plus bind water to skin for improved hydration.

Rating: Good
Categories: Emollient
Lightweight emollient that aids skin hydration. Also assists with solubility and texture.

Rating: Best
Categories: Antioxidant, Humectant
Hydroxyacetophenone is a versatile humectant and preservative booster that also has skin-soothing properties.

Rating: Best
Categories: Humectant, Texture-Enhancer, Prebiotic-Probiotic-Postbiotic
Derived from chicory root or sugarcane, this complex carbohydrate is also a resistant starch (fiber) that has prebiotic, hydrating and soothing benefits on skin.

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

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: Texture-Enhancer, Plant-Extracts
Primary fiber component of plants. Used in cosmetics as a thickening agent and to bind other ingredients together.

Rating: Good
Categories: Humectant, Prebiotic-Probiotic-Postbiotic
A natural sugar that occurs in many fruits as well as in honey. Acts as a flavoring agent and humectant in cosmetics and is also a prebiotic.

Rating: Good
Categories: Humectant, Prebiotic-Probiotic-Postbiotic
This sugar derived from plants hydrates and adds a pleasant, sweet flavor to products such as cleansers and lip balms.

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