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Myristyl Glucoside
Myristyl Glucoside
A sugar-based cleansing ingredient that lifts away oil and dirt.
What it does
It’s made by joining myristyl alcohol, a fatty alcohol, to glucose. One end grabs oil and the other mixes with water, so it lifts away oil and dirt in cleansers.
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2013) assessed 19 alkyl glucosides, which products use mostly to cleanse or help oil and water mix, and some to condition skin or hair or steady a mixture. Their index lists cetearyl glucoside, caprylyl/capryl glucoside, C12–20 alkyl glucoside, arachidyl glucoside and myristyl glucoside under that report. Skin likely breaks these ingredients down, so the reviewers also drew on their reports on fatty alcohols. They judged all 19 safe as used, in products made not to irritate.Fiume 2013 · International Journal of Toxicology ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
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