What Neutrogena’s marketing says about Deep Clean Blackhead Eliminating Daily Face Scrub
Helps to effectively reduce blackheads and prevent new ones from forming with continued use, for clear & healthy-looking skin.
Disclaimer: What the company says about a product should be given very little importance when considering the product. Decisions should be based on what the ingredients in the product do.
Read the review below to find out if the product ‘ actually’ does what its marketing says it does…
Deep Clean Blackhead Eliminating Daily Face Scrub Review
The product’s ingredients
Description of what the ingredients in Deep Clean Blackhead Eliminating Daily Face Scrub do
Ingredient 1 – Water
Function: Solvent
A solvent helps in dissolving other ingredients in the product.
Dissolved ingredients can spread better.
Ingredient 2 – Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate
Function: Cleansing agent
Cleanses. Mild cleanser.
Ingredient 3 – Glycerin
Function: Humectant
Humectants are water magnets. They attract water. They are like sponges. When applied on the skin’s surface, they draw water vapour from the atmosphere to the skin.
Glycerin is a powerful humectant.
Since this is an exfoliating product, glycerin aids in adding hydration – as an exfoliating product takes away some of the moisture from the skin.
Ingredient 4 – Cocamidopropyl Betaine
Function: Cleansing agent
Cleanses skin.
Ingredient 5 – Cellulose
Function: Exfoliating agent
It makes small balls when it comes in contact with the oil on the skin. These balls attach to dirt and dead cells (and thus help in washing them away).
Ingredient 6 – Acrylates Copolymer
Function: Thickener
Thickens product. Binds all ingredients together.
Ingredient 7 – Glycol Distearate
Function: Opacifier
Gives the product a white and glossy feel and effect. A pearling effect.
Ingredient 8 – Sodium Benzoate
Function: Preservative
Increases the shelf life of the product. Preserves the product.
Ingredient 9 – Glycol Stearate
Function: Emulsifier, Emollient
Keeps the oil based and water based ingredients of the product together. Thickening agent. Also adds a smooth texture to the product.
Ingredient 10 – Polysorbate 20
Function: Emulsifier
Keeps the oil-based and water-based ingredients in the product together – blends unlike ingredients. Without emulsifiers, ingredients in the product will separate.
A quick note on other ingredients
These ingredients are all further down the ingredient list. So the amount used in the product is less. The amount of an ingredient used reduces as we go down the ingredient list. And most functional ingredients when used at lower rates, the effect they have won’t be the same as if they were used at higher rates.
It is important to remember that in the majority of skincare products, only the first 5 ingredients matter the most.
It has fragrance. This can be irritating to the skin.
The product has Salicyclic Acid. This ingredient is doing most of the work in this product. It scoops out the blackheads, whiteheads, dirt, excess oil and dead cells from pores. By doing this, it gets rid of blackheads and whiteheads. By getting rid of excess oil, dead cells and dirt it is removing the chance of them converting into new blackheads and whiteheads.
It also has citric acid. This ingredient also helps in removing blackheads. But this ingredient is effective only at around 20%. Here it is used at a very low concentration.
