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Vell Gentle Cleanser
A cream-gel cleanser that lifts the day off without stripping the barrier you spent money repairing.
Every skin, morning and night. The first step.
Most cleansers clean too well. They use sulphates that foam impressively and leave skin tight, which the skin reads as damage and answers with more oil. Vell uses a coco-glucoside system instead, a sugar-derived surfactant that lifts sunscreen and grime at a near-neutral pH.
Glycerin and a little oat extract stay behind to keep the barrier soft. It does not foam much. That is the point.
The formula, in full.
4 ingredients. Each named, sourced and explained. The percentages add to one hundred.
- 12% Coco-glucoside Coco-Glucoside
From coconut and fruit sugar A gentle sugar-derived surfactant; cleans without stripping. - 5% Glycerin Glycerin
Vegetable-derived Holds water in the skin through the wash. - 2% Colloidal oat Avena Sativa Kernel Extract
Milled oat, Australia Colloidal oat extract, to soothe and soften. - · Glycerin Glycerin
Vegetable-derived Buffered to a near-neutral pH so the barrier stays intact.
None added.
What it will not do.
- It will not remove heavy waterproof eye make-up in one pass. Use an oil first for that.
- It will not foam like a sulphate cleanser. Lather is marketing, not cleaning.
Not in this formula
- Sulphates (SLS / SLES)
- Added fragrance
- Drying alcohol
Batch dated and numbered. Best within twelve months of opening.
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