Lightful C Cleanser - Looking Passed the Marketing & Dissecting the Ingredients
"A deliciously refreshing, creamy and dense foam that gently yet thoroughly cleanses the skin. Enhanced with Coral Grass and Super-Duo Charged Water to intensify the overall benefits to your skin. Actively cleanses, rebalances, refreshes, hydrates and brightens skin without dehydrating. Rinses super-promptly leaving a pleasant, delicate Lightful signature fragrance. . ."
Water- Good ole’ H2O
Myristic Acid – Cleansing Agent
Glycerin- Skin Conditioner
Behenic Acid- Cleansing Agent from fatty acid
Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate- coconut derived fatty acid that makes it foamy. (Cleansing Agent)
Palmitic Acid-Cleansing Agent to get rid of oil. Also another fatty acid.
Potassium Hydroxide- pH Adjuster
Lauric Acid- Another fatty acid cleansing agent to get rid of oil
Stearic Acid- Cleansing and Emulsifying agent from fatty acids
Tourmaline-“ complex silicate of boron and aluminum, containing varying amounts of iron, magnesium, manganese, calcium, sodium, potassium, lithium, and fluorine.” To aide in making the product thicker.
Silk Powder-Skin Conditioner
Caffeine-Skin Conditioner
Sodium Hyaluronate- Salt from Hyaluronic Acid for skin conditioning
Gentiana Lutea (Gentian) Root Extract, Astrocaryum Murumuru Seed Butter, Algae Extract, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract-All are Skin Conditioners
Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract-Soothing Astringent
Salicornia Herbacea Extract, Sea Whip Extract -Skin Conditioner
Palmaria Palmata Extract-Skin Protecting
Hydrolyzed Rice Bran Extract, Porphyra Yezoensis (Algae) Extract-Skin conditioner
Trehalose-Moisturizer
Sodium Pca-Amino acid as a skin conditioner
Ascorbyl Glucoside-Antioxidant
Urea-excreted in urine and used as a skin conditioner
Sucrose-soother
Butylene Glycol-organic alcohol for solvent & conditioning skin
Polyquaternium-51-film forming skin conditioner
Peg-3 Distearate-emulsifying agent
Fragrance (Parfum)-would need more information
Tetrasodium Edta, Disodium Edta -“ chelating agent, used to sequester and decrease the reactivity of metal ions that may be present in a product.”
Phenoxyethanol-Preservative
Methylisothiazolinone, Methylchloroisothiazolinone -Preservative with high hazard rating
Magnesium Nitrate – inorganic salt
Next time you want results, look on the back of the bottle and the price tag. While Lightful C has some good extracts and fatty acids, it also contains some harsh preservatives. You be the judge! Have you tried the Lightful C line? I would love to hear your #lipsmack - comment below!
Works Cited
MAC Cosmetics. (2019, May 31). LIGHTFUL C + CORAL GRASS CLEANSER. Retrieved from MAC Cosmetics: https://www.maccosmetics.com/product/13826/56256/products/skincare/removers-cleansers/lightful-c-coral-grass-cleanser
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