

They have multiple versions with variable fatty acid chain length and the ingredient can have a liquid, a creamy, a soft or firm paste, or even a hard wax consistency. Chemically speaking, pure jojoba oil is also a wax ester (read our shiny explanation here), however, the ingredients called jojoba esters on the ingredient lists are made from jojoba oil and/or hydrogenated jojoba oil via interesterification.
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Jojoba-derived emollient wax esters (fatty acid + fatty alcohol) that make your skin feel nice and smooth. What-it-does: soothing, emollient, moisturizer/humectant We don't have description for this ingredient yet.

It's also great in lip care formulas as it has high gloss and excellent stick.

Thanks to carefully selecting and arranging the fatty acids, the manufacturer claims that it had created an active ingredient that's not simply an emollient but a water-binding and skin-plumping active ingredient. So this guy is like a modified oil where the manufacturer changed up the fatty acids attached to the glycerin. Oils are mostly made up of triglyceride molecules: a glycerin and three fatty acids attached to it.
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While it is very unlikely (and this is true for pretty much every ingredient), cases of reactions to castor oil have been reported, so if your skin is sensitive, it never hurts to patch test.Ī polyglyceride created from sunflower oil using green, Ecocert approved technology. Other than that, it is a very effective emollient and occlusive that reduces skin moisture loss so it is quite common in smaller amounts in moisturizers. It is also more glossy than other oils, in fact, it creates the highest gloss of all natural oils when applied to the skin. dissolves in alcohol but not in mineral oil), and it allows all kinds of chemical modifications other oils do not, hence the lots of Castor oil-derived ingredients. First, it is thicker than other oils, then its solubility is different (e.g. Unlike other fatty acids, ricinoleic acid has an extra water-loving part (aka -OH group) on its fatty chain that gives Castor Oil several unique properties. So what is so special about it? The answer is its main fatty acid, called ricinoleic acid (85-95%). You would be reasonable to think that putting shoe polish on your face wouldn’t be the best idea, but it turns out castor oil has some unique properties that make it a stalwart in thick and gloss-giving formulas (think lipsticks and highlighters). It is an age-old ingredient (it’s over 4,000 years old!) with many uses including as a shoe polish, food additive and motor lubricant. Also-called: Castor Oil | What-it-does: emollient, perfuming| Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0-1Ĭastor oil is sourced from the castor bean plant native to tropical areas in Eastern Africa and the Mediterranean Basin.
