Gigi hair removal cream for the face is a cooling cucumber and aloe Vera cream formula specifically designed to gently remove unsightly facial hair.
Ingredients overview
Water (Aqua), Paraffinum Liquidum, Cetearyl Alcohol, Ceteth-20, Sodium Silicate, Calcium Hydroxide, Sodium Thioglycolate, Calcium Thioglycolate, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Cucumis Sativus (Cucmber) Fruit Extract, Bisabolol, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Fragrance (Parfum)
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Highlights
#alcohol-free
Key Ingredients
AntioxidantSodium Thioglycolate
Soothing: Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Cucumis Sativus (Cucmber) Fruit Extract, Bisabolol
Skim through
| Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water (Aqua) | solvent | ||
| Paraffinum Liquidum | emollient, solvent | 0, 0-2 | |
| Cetearyl Alcohol | emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | 1, 2 | |
| Ceteth-20 | surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing | ||
| Sodium Silicate | buffering | ||
| Calcium Hydroxide | buffering | ||
| Sodium Thioglycolate | antioxidant | ||
| Calcium Thioglycolate | |||
| Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice | soothing, moisturizer/humectant | goodie | |
| Cucumis Sativus (Cucmber) Fruit Extract | soothing, emollient | goodie |
Gigi Hair Removal CreamIngredients explained
Water
Also-called: Aqua | What-it-does: solvent
Good old water, aka H2O. The most common skincare ingredient of all. You can usually find it right in the very first spot of the ingredient list, meaning its the biggest thing out of all the stuff that makes up the product.
Its mainly a solvent for ingredients that do not like to dissolve in oils but rather in water.
Paraffinum Liquidum
Also-called: Mineral Oil | What-it-does: emollient, solvent | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0-2
The famous or maybe rather infamous mineral oil. The clear oily liquid that is the "cheap by-product" of refining crude oil and the one that gets a lot of heat for its poor provenance. It is a very controversial ingredient with pros and cons and plenty of myths around it. So let us see them:
The pros of mineral oil
Trust us, if something is used for more than 100 years in cosmetic products, it has advantages. Chemically speaking, cosmetic grade mineral oil is a complex mixture of highly refined saturated hydrocarbons with C15-50 chain length. It is not merely a "by-product" but rather a specifically isolated part of petroleum that is very pure and inert.
It is a great emollient and moisturizer working mainly by occlusivity. Occlusivity is one of the basic mechanisms of how moisturizers work and it means that mineral oil sits on top of the skin and hinders so-called trans-epidermal water loss, i.e water evaporating out of your skin. When compared to heavy-duty plant oil, extra virgin coconut oil, the two of them were equally efficient and safe as moisturizers in treating xerosis, a skin condition connected to very dry skin.
Cetearyl Alcohol
What-it-does: emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, emulsion stabilising, surfactant/cleansing | Irritancy: 1 | Comedogenicity: 2
An extremely common multitasker ingredient that gives your skin a nice soft feel (emollient) and gives body to creams and lotions. It also helps to stabilize oil-water mixes (emulsions), though it does not function as an emulsifier in itself. Its typical use level in most cream type formulas is 2-3%.
Its a so-called fatty alcohol, a mix of cetyl and stearyl alcohol, other two emollient fatty alcohols. Though chemically speaking, it is alcohol (as in, it has an -OH group in its molecule), its properties are totally different from the properties of low molecular weight or drying alcohols such as denat. alcohol. Fatty alcohols have a long oil-soluble (and thus emollient) tail part that makes them absolutely non-drying and non-irritating and are totally ok for the skin.
