Aveeno Moisturizing Bar For Dry Skin, 3.5 Oz

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Dear Emily, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate is one of the mildest soap surfactant available for making soap, shampoo, body wash or other cleansing applications. The other potential skin irritants they should avoided or replaced is paraffin and/or sodium chloride, none of the other new ingredients should not cause irritation for skin.

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A cleansing agent that's claimed to be so gentle on the skin that it hardly impacts the skin barrier. It also gives arich, creamy foam, it's based on vegetable fatty acids and is readily biodegradable. A cleansing agent that's popular in "syndet bars" (soapless soaps) for its good foaming properties. It can also improve the mildness of famously aggressive, irritating surfactant, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS). what‑it‑does The old formula also contained sodium trideceth sulfate and hydrogenated castor oil, which were removed in the new formula. The new version of Aveeno Moisturizing Bar for Dry Skin contains many ingredients that were missing from the old version: Intensely nourish dry skin with prebiotic oat formula. The gentle daily lotion nourishes & helps replenish skin's natural moisture barrier & has clinically proven moisturization that lasts 24 hours.A common glycol that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products. It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer. We don’t conduct animal testing in the research or development of our cosmetic products. Alongside our parent company, we support efforts to help end to cosmetic animal testing globally.​ benzyl alcohol (a preservative), sodium chloride (salt), and paraffin may cause irritation for sensitive skin It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section) Galactoarabinan is a natural polysaccharide (a bigcarbohydrate molecule) that comes from theLarch trees.

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avena sativa (oat) kernel flour, water, cetearyl alcohol, stearic acid, sodium cocoyl isethionate, disodium lauryl sulfosuccinate, glycerin, hydrogenated vegetable oil, titanium dioxide, citric acid, sodium trideceth sulfate, hydrogenated castor oil 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. However, too much of it causes the phenomenon called "salting out", and the surfactant solution goes runny again. I asked my dad to speculate about what ingredients in the new formula might be causing irritation for some people. Here’s what he said: If (similar to us) you are in the weird habit of reading the label on your shower gel while taking a shower, you might have noticed that sodium chloride is almost always on the ingredient list. Afinely powdered form of Oat Extract that has the same skin soothing, skin protecting and antioxidantbenefits we have written about atAvena Sativa Kernel Extract.

To sum things up, I learned a few interesting things from writing this post and asking my dad about the formula change: