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Sea Salt
Maris Sal · Sea Salt
Salt dried from seawater. Its grains scrub in body scrubs, and a little thickens some formulas.
What it does
It’s the salt left when seawater dries, mostly sodium chloride with some magnesium and other minerals. Its grains do the scrubbing in salt scrubs, and in small amounts it thickens some formulas.
The EU’s ingredient database lists it as a skin conditioner, its general term for an ingredient that keeps skin in good condition.European Commission, CosIng (© European Union, CC BY 4.0) · uses put in plain words by Drop ↗
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