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Updated: Jun 7, 2019

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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