Are you an ingredients wizard?

I will give it a read GildedButterflies, thanks heaps 🙂 As far as I know, pubmed classes ALES as a safe ingredient, so will be interesting to see what that article says. The only other SS product I’ve used is their illuminating moisturiser with SPF, which goes on nicely but does leave me a bit greasy looking, presumably because of the illuminating and SPF factors. I like it enough to use it up but would be unlikely to repurchase, for that reason. I’ll be trying their sugar and salt scrubs tomorrow, and their thermal clay mask, but this rose one sounds lovely too, just wish they sold it separately!

I worked at The Body Shop for a few years, so I’ve got a pretty good knowledge of skincare ingredients. Nothing in those products really bother me, except for the essential oils, which are common irritants, and would upset my skin. But, if you’re not sensitive to them, go for it!

I like combing peer reviewed journal articles especially on health and skincare. Here’s a little snippet of what they say about ALES. Its not in the title but is mentioned in the little snippet.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20634505

Have you tried any other Sanctuary Spa products, Emma? I was eyeballing their Hot Cloth Cleanser today. Its a cleansing balm and I want one for removing makeup but unsure whether its worth it.

Very tedious but I will have a go. Just thought someone might know off the top of their incredibly brainy heads. I just looked up ALES on beautypedia and was surprised to find no mention of it being a possible irritant or cancer causer, so not sure I will take her info as gospel. (I don’t actually know how bad ALES really is, but it is flagged as a possible problem ingredient on other websites, and I prefer to be over cautious. I’m wondering if the clay mask can be used on its own? That’s the part I really want.

Agree with CB’s suggestion. Paula’s Choice has a list of most ingredients found in skincare either on her website or on Beautypedia (not sure which). They have a rating and an explanation of each ingredient. I know it’ll be tedious to look up each ingredient individually but it might be worth checking out.

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Seems to be a mix of naturals and some chemical related ingredients EmmaApple.

You can Google each ingredient or the one you want to find out about. I’m not even a wiz, or even a w but I have a feeling a good amount of the ingredients are commonly used in skincare, like urea, linalool, glycerin.
Some seem to be oil related so I’m assuming for moisturising.