Cussons Mild Cream Bar Soap, 4 x 90g

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Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Sodium Palmate, Aqua, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Talc, Glycerin, Parfum, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Etidronic Acid, Tetrasodium EDTA, Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate, Mineral Oil, Benzyl Salicylate, Hexyl Cinnamal, Linalool, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Geraniol, CI 77891, CI 74160. Its two winning properties that make it very suitable for this role is its outstanding spreadability for a smooth application and its low covering power, aka translucency to avoid clown-like effects.

If you check out the classic French pharmacy brands and their moisturizers for the most sensitive, allergy prone skin, they usually contain mineral oil. The SLES molecule has a bigger water-soluble head part that makes it milder and much less irritating.

Badmouthing mineral oil is a favorite sport of many, it is a cheap material and being connected to petrolatum makes it fairly easy to demonize.

With a formula that includes additional moisturizers that leaves skin clean and soft, this bar soap leaves skin feeling soft and nourished. At scale, these small differences in product size and weight lead to significant carbon emission reductions.It’s definitely a smart thing to avoid with sensitive skin (and fragrance of any type - natural is just as allergic as synthetic, if not worse! Damages: Whilst every effort is made to ensure you receive your goods in perfect condition, in a small number of cases damages can occur during transit. Fragrance in the US and parfum in the EU is a generic term on the ingredient list that is made up of 30 to 50 chemicals on average (but it can have as much as 200 components!

What is more, in terms of the general health effects of mineral oils used in cosmetics, a 2017 study reviewed the data on their skin penetration and concluded that " the cosmetic use of mineral oils and waxes does not present a risk to consumers due to a lack of systemic exposure.Mineral oil has such a bad reputation nowadays that cosmetic companies hardly dare to use it anymore. Talc is the major component of most powder makeup products (think face powder, eyeshadows, and blushers) that usually contain it up to 70%. Mineral oil does not give the skin any extra goodness, it is simply a non-irritating moisturizer working mainly by occlusivity. With the removal of excess air and water, products require less packaging and become more efficient to dispatch. If you are into chemistry (if not, we understand, just skip this paragraph), the reason is that electrolytes (you know, the Na+ and Cl- ions) screen the electrostatic repulsion between the head groups of ionic surfactants and thus support the formation of long shaped micelles (instead of spherical ones) that entangle like spaghetti, and viola, a gel is formed.