Clean from head to toe

Just because you get out of the shower doesn't mean you're clean! Discover the perfect clean alternatives to your favourite shampoo and deodorant, and learn how to decipher your product’s labels to avoid traps in this beauty file!

The shortlist of active ingredients to avoid (for your skin... and for the environment)

Unfortunately, we could not list everything because each family of ingredients can have a lot (really a lot!) of variations. So we grouped the most encountered and easily identifiable ingredients on a label.

Sulphates Sodium laureth sulfate, ammonium lauryl sulfate, sodium lauryl sulfate

Silicones Dimethicone, dimethiconol, cyclopentasiloxane

Mineral oils paraffinum liquidum, petrolatum, mineral oil

Parabens isopropylparaben, butylparaben, methyl parahydroxybenzoate

Triclosan trichloro, carbanilide, triclosan, diphenyl hydroxyl ether

Aluminium salts Aluminium chlorohydrate, aluminium zirconium pentachlorohydrate

We keep a cool head: it is not so much the incidence of a single active ingredient that can pose a problem: it is the famous "cocktail" effect that one must fear more, that is to say the accumulation of several problematic ingredients, but also their use on the long term. So there is no need to panic and throw away the entire contents of your shelf ;-)

Did you learn anything from this article? Discover also which ingredients to avoid in your makeup !