Gentle

Gentle! Facial Cleanser

For normal, dry, combination, and oily skin. Custom botanical blend deep cleans pores while conditioning skin, leaving it feeling soft and revitalized. Moisturizes your skin without making it oily.

How it works

Gentle! Facial Cleanser for normal, dry, combination, and oily skin.  Mild, yet effective, cleanser with Allantoin and Panthenol, removes impurities while softening skin. Soothing cleanser with a highly concentrated blend of botanical extracts, leaving skin feeling revitalized and refreshed.

How to Apply

Use morning and night with a small amount of water.  Massage onto skin for 30 to 60 seconds and rinse thoroughly.

Active ingredients

Pure Rose Hydrosol:  The by-product of essential oil distillation from fresh rose petals, produced during the steam distilling process.  Steam is passed through plant material, condensate is collected, the essential oil floating on the surface is collected, and the water that is remaining is the hydrosol.  It is 30 times stronger than herbal teas and gentler than essential oils. It restores the skin’s pH and tightens pores.  Acts as an helps reduce the appearance of redness, reducing irritation and redness, while calming and soothing skin. It controls and helps reduce the appearance of excess shine, making it useful for both dry and oily skin.

Aloe Vera Juice: plant species which grows wild in tropical climates around the world, commonly cultivated for medicinal uses; has as abundance of vitamins and minerals, including vitamin A, C, and E with Vitamin B12, folic acid, choline, copper, selenium, manganese, magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium, and zinc. Contains eight enzymes including catalase, cellulase, lipase, aliases, alkaline phosphatase, amylase, carboxypeptidase, and peroxidase. has an abundance of vitamins and minerals… A source of antioxidants that helps protect skin and promote a healthy-looking complexion, while helping reduce the look of blemishes. Aloe vera can moisturize skin and reduce early signs of aging.

Decyl Glucoside: a derivative of coconut. A non-ionic surfactant that’s used as a cleansing agent. It’s gentle enough for sensitive skin and can be used in baby products. It also possesses moisture binding properties that help make the skin feel smooth and soft.

Cocamidopropyl Betaine:   is often used in cleansers because of its thickening and foaming properties, which helps moisturize the skin. Cocamidopropyl betaine is even found in many baby soaps and shampoos. Does not cause irritation like other harsher surfactants.

Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate: a sodium salt derived from coconut oil; an alternative to animal-based substances. Acts as a surfactant in soaps and cleansers — it lowers the surface tension of water, which makes the cleanser easier to spread on your face when you wash it, and helps water and oil bond. Because of sodium isethionate’s mild nature, it’s often found in toothpastes and in baby soaps.

Cocyl Hydrolyzed Silk: Hydrolyzed from pure silk fibers, Foaming Silk has the benefit of natural lathering properties for mild cleansing and softening. Skin conditioning agent.

Allantoin: acts as a compound removing barriers like dead skin and keratin. Increases the skin’s hydration by helping the lower layers of the skin absorb moisture normally and reduces the appearance of wrinkles, while preventing itchy or flaky skin. Helps calm the look of irritated skin

Panthenol:  pro-vitamin B5, an excellent moisturizer/humectant; plumps, comfort, softens, and soothes skin.

Meadowfoam XPR: Limnanthes alba, extracted from the seeds of the white, flowering meadowfoam plant. Contains antioxidants like Vitamins C and E. Acts as an emollient when applied to skin to lock in moisture with a soothing, non-sticky feeling.

Calendula Extract: Calendula Officinalis is a natural oil extracted from marigold flowers. Contains natural compounds known to provide antioxidant protection and a soothing feel on skin. Supports a clearer-looking, hydrated, and firmer-feeling complexion.

Orange Peel Oil: Citrus sinensis, protects the skin from free radicals and helps support a clearer-looking complexion. Helps reduce the look of dark spots and blemishes, boosts circulation in the skin, promotes collagen production, and helps shrink the look of large pores while firming skin. Helps control excess oil.

Peppermint Oil:  Mentha piperita soothes the body and makes one feel rejuvenated and refreshed. Makes the skin feel brighter and is an excellent toner. Peppermint oil has antioxidant properties and a cooling, refreshing feel.

Chamomile Extract:  Asteraceae, a common name for several daisy-like plants in this family. Many active ingredients in chamomile are powerful, including the flavonoids apigenin, luteolin, and quercetin, and oils including alpha-bisabolol and matricin; all contributing to chamomile’s antioxidant properties. No change needed — this one is already appropriately hedged (“calm the look of,” “known to,” describing skin appearance rather than treating a condition). You could optionally soften “calm red…skin” to “calm the look of redness in dry, sensitive, and irritated-feeling skin” for consistency.

Carrot Essential Seed Oil:  Daucus Carota is renowned for being amazing at skin renewal and is highly used in helps soften the appearance of fine lines and supports smoother-looking skin. It softens the skin, reduces wrinkles and combats aging with its’ high antioxidant content. Stimulates cell renewal; stimulates the sweat and sebaceous glands – thus benefiting dry and mature skin; protects skin that is exposed to the elements; tightens and rejuvenates the skin; helps support the look of stressed or damaged-feeling skin; helps fade the look of sun spots.

Full ingredients:

Distilled Water, Aloe Vera Juice, Rose Hydrosol, Decyl Glucoside, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Stearic Acid, Sorbitol, Propanediol, Cetyl Alcohol, Honeyquat PF, Glycerin, Sodium Cocoyl Hydrolyzed Silk, Olive Oil PEG-7 Esters, PEG-6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides, Meadowfoam XPR, Panthenol, Allantoin, Liquid Germall Plus, Essential Oils and Extracts: (Peppermint, Sweet Orange Peel, Rosehip, Calendula, Chamomile, Carrot Seed).

As part of our commitment to innovation, our formulations are updated periodically.  Therefore, the ingredient list shown here my vary from the product packaging, depending on factors such as timing of purchase.

Other Product Information:

Please note: As a result of the various oils, extracts, and chemical ingredients; it is normal for the color, aroma, and viscosity of the serum to vary slightly between bottles. We package in dark amber bottles with pump dispensers to help protect products from light and oxidation, extending their shelf life.

Packaging may vary based on availability of the best quality and value as part of our commitment to keep the pricing of our products affordable.  The color of the pump (i.e. black or white) and/or a label design change will never impact the quality of our products.