Glyceryl Stearate: Why is it skin-friendly?

Glyceryl Stearate is the skin's own emulsifier and is completely compatible - even for very sensitive skin.

Glyceryl Stearate can be made from vegetable oils. Unlike some other emulsifiers, this manufacturing process is very sustainable. This makes Glyceryl Stearate easily biodegradable.

Glyceryl Stearate is similar to Glyceryl Stearate Citrate , another skin-friendly emulsifier.

Unfortunately, people often create fear of emulsifiers. This is wrong. Emulsifiers are not generally dangerous for the skin. Nevertheless, if you have sensitive skin, it makes sense to only use emulsifiers that are identical to your skin. In theory, any emulsifier can act like a mild surfactant (washing substances in cleansers ) and wash fats out of the skin if the skin cannot cope with the emulsifier.

However, the skin's own emulsifiers such as glyceryl stearate are incorporated directly into the skin and are completely metabolized through the skin, so that fats cannot be washed out. Dry skin sometimes even has far too few emulsifiers, which means that moisture and pure oil cannot be absorbed when layered on top of each other. Glyceryl stearate helps the building blocks to be completely absorbed and incorporated into the skin.