Do You Need Preservatives?

DENATURED ALCOHOL

This was the only preservative we used when we got started. We used it because one of the first products we made here at ROSEN was our Tingling Mud Mask and -long story short- denatured alcohol was the only natural ingredient we could find to preserve our masks. So, from there we said, “sweet, we’ve got our preservative”. However, after listening to you all, we made a switch and all of our daily products are now alcohol-free. Honestly, we would be 100% down to make our masks alcohol-free as well, if that didn’t mean they would start growing mold.

LEUCIDAL LIQUID

This is the ingredient in all of our products called Lactobacillus Ferment. This preservative is a probiotic-based ingredient created by the fermentation of Lactobacillus. Lactobacillus is like a micro-organism and if you head to your local health-food store, you’ll see it’s one of the main things in probiotics. Basically, this preservative is fermented good bacteria that helps restrict the growth of bad bacteria because it’s pH is so low.

AMTICIDE COCONUT

Contrary to popular belief, we do not use coconut oil in any of our products! The Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Extract in our products is this preservative! Basically, they make this preservative by fermenting lactobacillus (wow shoutout to probiotics again) and coconut fruit to protect against yeast and mold. This preservative supplements the Leucidal by stopping the growth of some gross things.

The tricky thing about natural preservation, is you usually need to combine multiple ingredients to get the desired results. But it’s so cool when it works because you have made sure no bacteria or mold grow in your products from natural ingredients! Like fermented coconut and probiotics keep these products safe and if you don’t think that’s cool then I don’t know what to say.

SO, FOR A BRIEF OVERVIEW:

• Preservatives are good and super necessary if you have water in any of your products
• There are natural and safe preservatives out there
• Lactobacillus is an MVP
• We still are searching for a natural and cleaner preservative option for our masks