Paula's Choice
Rescue & Repair Intensive Moisturizer
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Cleaner pick · Safest moisturizers we have rated
Iunik Global
Beta Glucan Daily Moisture Cream$17
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A 33-point gap between the two loudest voices.
55Cruelty-Free CertificationNonprofit
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Ingredient safety
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Also screened, nothing found: ANSES Endocrine Disruptors · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · IARC Monographs · California Proposition 65
Environmental
Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
Labor
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Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust36 of 36 characterized
Our sources have reference data on all 36 listed ingredients.
Worth a look (2)
Health Canada Hotlist — restrictedflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Mild sensitizer for someflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (34)
- Water/Aqua/Eau
- C13-15 Alkane
- Glycerinhumectant
- Propanediol
- Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil
- Cetearyl Alcohol
- Arachidyl Alcohol
- Stearic Acid
- Inulin
- Behenyl Alcohol
- Cetyl Alcohol
- Butylene Glycol
- Hydrogenated Lecithin
- Myristyl Myristatecomedogenic in testing
- Arachidyl Glucoside
- Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
- Caprylyl Glycol
- Allantoinsoothing
- Tocopherol
- Ethylhexylglycerin
- Hexylene Glycol
- Xanthan Gum
- Alpha-Glucan Oligosaccharide
- Sodium Phytate
- Glycogen
- Yeast Extract/Faex/Extrait de levure
- Laminaria Digitata Extract
- Albatrellus Confluens Extract
- Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract
- Galactoarabinan
- Schizophyllan
- Maltodextrin
- Acetyl Hexapeptide-8
- Potassium Sorbate
What these ingredient tags mean (3)
These describe what an ingredient is, not whether it is a problem. The stance marks above are the ratings; these are not.
comedogenic in testingMyristyl Myristate
- Myristyl Myristate: A waxy emollient named among the pore-clogging materials in the rabbit-ear assay. Fulton JE Jr, Pay SR, Fulton JE 3rd, "Comedogenicity of current therapeutic products, cosmetics, and ingredients in the rabbit ear", J Am Acad Dermatol 1984;10(1):96-105, PMID 6229554. The openly readable abstract names this ingredient among its "ingredient offenders", in prose and without a numeric rating: "Ingredient offenders include isopropyl myristate and its analogs, such as isopropyl palmitate, isopropyl isostearate, butyl stearate, isostearyl neopentanoate, myristyl myristate..." The rabbit-ear assay rates raw ingredients and does not predict how a finished formula behaves on human skin.
humectantGlycerin
- Glycerin: A humectant, and one of the two ingredients a comparison of moisturiser components found made a significant difference to skin hydration. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(h), lists glycerin as a skin protectant at 20 to 45%. On the humectant half: Jeong CB, Han JY, Cho JC, Suh KD, Nam GW, "Analysis of electrical property changes of skin by oil-in-water emulsion components", Int J Cosmet Sci 2013;35(4):402-410, DOI 10.1111/ics.12059, PMID 23621673, found that "glycerine and urea showed significant skin hydration effects compared with other humectants".
soothingAllantoin
- Allantoin: A skin protectant used at low levels in products aimed at irritated skin. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(a), lists allantoin as a skin-protectant active at 0,5 to 2%. Its labelled indications are 21 CFR 347.50(b)(1), "temporarily protects minor: cuts, scrapes, burns", and (b)(2), which covers chafed, chapped or cracked skin. The monograph does not give it the "minor skin irritation and itching" wording; that one belongs to colloidal oatmeal, sodium bicarbonate and one combination, and to topical starch without the itching half.
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