Ingredients
All ingredients, essential oils, and hydrosols have been specifically selected for use with animals based on gentleness, safety, and physiological and psychological effects. Click on each ingredient to discover why it was chosen!
INCI Name: Sodium Hyaluronate
Origin: plant-based
Function: moisturizing, regenerating, anti-inflammatory, healing
Hyaluronic Acid is a natural molecule present in the skin. It helps preserve hydration and heal tissues. It promotes better penetration of other active ingredients contained in the cosmetic.
INCI Name: Lactic Acid
Origin: plant-based
Function: Regulator of the skin’s hydrolipid balance
INCI Name: Benzyl Alcohol
Origin: can be synthetic or natural. In Pippotheweim cosmetics, only natural alcohol is used. It is found naturally in various plants.
Function: preservative, antimicrobial, solvent
It is an aromatic organic compound.
It is a preservative alcohol known for its antimicrobial properties, highly tolerated by the skin, with a low environmental impact.
INCI Name: Cetearyl alcohol
Origin: natural
Function: acts oppositely to alcohol, as it is an emollient
INCI Name: Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice
Origin: plant-based
Function: soothing, refreshing, moisturizing, nourishing, healing, anti-redness, antibacterial
It is a plant known for its multiple therapeutic properties. It soothes, relieves itching and redness, refreshes, and hydrates the skin. Therapeutically, it is used for its anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties, promoting the natural healing of lesions.
INCI Name: Hamamelis Virginiana Leaf Extract
Origin: plant-based
Function: soothing, astringent, anti-inflammatory
It is a plant known for its high concentration of active ingredients. Famous for its anti-inflammatory, astringent, and soothing properties. It is used in cosmetic products for reddened and easily irritable skin.
INCI Name: Arnica Montana Flower Water
Origin: plant-based
Function: famous for its anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, and antibacterial properties. Promotes wound healing, relieves pain, and reduces swelling.
Appreciated for decongesting inflammations and insect bites.
INCI Name: Harpagophytum Procumbens Root Extract
Origin: plant-based
Function: soothes inflammations, repairs skin tissues, and promotes wound healing
INCI Name: Persea Gratissima Oil
Origin: plant-based
Function: moisturizing, nourishing, sebum-regulating
Avocado oil is known for its sebum-like, nourishing, and regenerating characteristics. It is particularly suitable for dry, devitalized, dehydrated, and dull skin. It deeply protects the skin and strengthens it against atmospheric aggressions.
Thanks to its high content of fatty acids, vitamins A, B, C, E, and minerals, it benefits the coat, making it soft and shiny. It restructures damaged and brittle fur, also stimulating follicles and thus hair growth.
INCI Name: Titanium Dioxide
Origin: mineral
Function: UV filter, UV absorber
Titanium Dioxide, a white powder, is a natural mineral widely present on earth. It can absorb, reflect, and scatter sunlight, which is why it is used in sun products. It is part of physical filters, screening substances made of small mineral particles capable of reflecting solar rays. Compared to chemical filters, physical ones are more environmentally sustainable.
INCI Name: Bisabolol
Origin: plant-based
Function: soothing, anti-redness, softening, calming
Bisabolol is a natural alcohol that is one of the main components of chamomile essential oil.
It is used in numerous medications due to its soothing, anti-redness, calming, and softening properties.
Useful for delicate and irritated skin. It is characterized by extreme skin tolerability.
INCI Name: Butyrospermum Parkii Butter
Origin: plant-based
Function: moisturizing, healing, nourishing
It is a butter rich in vitamins A, B, E, and F. It makes the skin more elastic and toned. It is used in cosmetics for its moisturizing and softening properties, keeping the skin in good condition. Effective against external agents like cold.
It is a valuable ally in case of skin redness, irritations, burns, and sunburns thanks to its well-known soothing and healing properties.
INCI Name: Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract
Origin: plant-based
Function: soothing, emollient, healing
It is a medicinal plant with excellent properties for the skin, known for its anti-redness and soothing properties and its ability to promote the regeneration of the epidermis and dermis.
It is an excellent soothing agent and included in formulations to achieve a healing effect. It is particularly suitable for dry and dehydrated, delicate, easily reddened skin. Due to its properties, it is used in various products with moisturizing and protective action against irritations caused by mechanical and chemical agents.
INCI Name: Cera Alba
Origin: plant-based
Function: emollient, film-forming, emulsifying, thickening, healing
It is a precious substance with numerous properties. It has pronounced emollient and anti-dehydrating properties. Very useful for very dry and chapped skin. It has the ability to form a protective film. A true protective agent.
Thanks to the presence of vitamin A, beeswax helps cell regeneration.
It aids wound healing, suitable for itching, dermatitis, and eczema.
Delicately sweet aroma, excellent as a multi-use ingredient. Mild and effective for all types of skin irritation and disorders, as well as for calming nervous tension and anxiety.
INCI Name: Copernicia Cerifera Cera
Origin: plant-based
Function: thickening, emollient
It is a vegetable wax used to give consistency to ointments and emulsions and to provide solidity.
INCI Name: Cupressus Sempervirens Leaf Oil
Origin: plant-based
Function: fragrance, repellent
With its warm and balsamic scent, it can perform a balancing action on the nervous system and also has an insect-repellent action.
INCI Name: Cymbopogon Nardus Oil
Origin: plant-based
Function: repellent, fragrance, anti-inflammatory, astringent
Citronella essential oil is mainly known for its repellent properties against mosquitoes and other insects.
In cosmetics, it is used to provide a pleasant fragrance.
In aromatherapy, it is used for its anti-stress and soothing properties.
INCI Name: Cocamidopropyl Betaine
Origin: plant-based
Function: surfactant, thickening, foaming, conditioning
It is a surfactant suitable for the formulation of all cleansing products, including those specific for sensitive and delicate skin. It has good foaming and gelling power.
INCI Name: Distearoylethyl dimonium chloride
Origin: natural
Function: conditioning and detangling, improves combability
INCI Name: Citrullus lanatus fruit extract
Origin: plant-based
Function: moisturizing, protective against environmental stress
Watermelon extract contains beta-carotene which, thanks to its omega 6 and 9 content, helps protect the skin and coat from UV rays.
INCI Name: Ethylhexylglycerin
Origin: plant-based, derived from cereals
Function: antimicrobial, emollient, and moisturizing. Particularly active against gram-positive bacteria, especially those responsible for bad odors.
INCI Name: Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Oil
Origin: plant-based
Function: antibacterial, antiseptic, soothing, healing, repellent
This plant, thanks to the presence of essential oil, performs a very effective antibacterial and antiseptic action.
INCI Name: Equisetum Arvense Extract
Origin: plant-based
Function: regenerating, strengthening, healing, moisturizing
Regenerates and strengthens fragile and damaged skin and hair. Stimulates the scalp and promotes hair growth. Excellent for irritated scalp.
INCI Name: Trigonella foenum-graecum
Origin: plant-based
Function: antioxidant, soothing, toning
Used in products to restructure hair and stimulate growth. Thanks to the high presence of phytoestrogens, it makes hair shinier, fuller, and more voluminous. A great ally against dandruff.
INCI Name: Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Extract
Origin: plant-based
Function: antifungal, repellent, astringent, healing
Geranium essential oil is known for its numerous properties: it performs a healing, toning, anti-inflammatory, and insect-repellent action.
INCI Name: Glycerin
Origin: plant-based
Function: moisturizing, revitalizing, protective
Famous for its emollient and moisturizing properties. Great for dry and damaged hair that needs nourishment and wellness.
Gives shine, volume, and silkiness to the coat. Soothes skin irritation caused by atmospheric agents like sun, wind, and cold.
INCI Name: Xanthan Gum
Origin: natural
Function: thickening
It is a natural gelling agent used to increase the viscosity of a product and is obtained from the fermentation of corn starch with the bacterium Xanthomonas Campestris. It is used in dosages between 0.5 and 1%.
INCI Name: Inulin
Origin: plant-based
Function: detangling, natural conditioning
Forms a film on the hair surface preserving its moisture thanks to its hygroscopic action.
INCI Name: Lavandula Angustifolia Flower
Origin: plant-based
Function: antiseptic, soothing, sanitizing
It has numerous therapeutic properties, a pleasant aroma, and a delicate nature rarely found in other essential oils.
The extreme delicacy combined with antibacterial properties and powerful regenerating effects have made lavender essential oil the perfect choice as an ingredient present in almost all Pippotheweim products.
Lavender hydrosol has a sweeter and deeper note reminiscent of honey and nectar. It has refreshing and healing properties and provides quick relief from itching and irritation. Excellent for cleansing and healing wounds. Emotionally calming.
INCI Name: Citrus limon
Origin: plant-based
Function: antibacterial, antiseptic, toning, calming, fragrance
Lemon essential oil is a strong antibacterial capable of also exerting calming effects.
It is also an effective deodorant and sanitizer for the home.
INCI Name: Linalool
Origin: plant-based
Function: fragrance
Linalool is a natural component of some essential oils. In particular, it is found in essential oils of lavender, bergamot, jasmine, mandarin and orange leaves, lemon, etc.
INCI Name: Juglans Regia Shell
Function: polishing, strengthening
Stimulates hair growth, gives vigor and shine to damaged hair, smooths rough hair. Cleanses and soothes the scalp, keeping it healthy.
INCI Name: Malva Sylvestris Extract
Origin: natural
Funzione: lenitiva, emolliente, disinfiammante. Indicata per pelli secchi, sensibili o irritate.
INCI Name: Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil
Origin: plant-based
Function: emollient, moisturizing
Used in cosmetics for its emollient and moisturizing properties, and in case of skin inflammations.
INCI Name: Punica Granatum Fruit
Origin: plant-based
Function: antioxidant, nourishing, regenerating, astringent
Revitalizes, nourishes, and deeply hydrates. The high concentration of antioxidant substances makes pomegranate extracts a valuable aid in combating oxidative stress on the skin, promoting the formation of new cells and the regeneration of skin tissue.
INCI Name: Mentha piperita
Origin: plant-based
Function: refreshing, soothing, repellent, fragrance
It is a plant with numerous properties and is widely used in phytotherapy. It stands out from other mint varieties for having a high degree of aromaticity, with a more delicate, sweet, and pleasant fragrance.
Its presence in cosmetics provides immediate relief of freshness, and it also acts on the skin’s microcirculation. Its usefulness extends to oral hygiene, as it is particularly suitable for refreshing and sanitizing the oral cavity. Reduces bad breath.
It is the primary ingredient in Pippotheweim repellent as it can repel fleas, flies, mosquitoes, and the ubiquitous invisible midges (ceratopogonids). Additionally, peppermint essential oil is effective for insect bites as it soothes pain and itching. It has a cooling effect.
INCI Name: Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit Water
Origin: plant-based
Function: antioxidant, toning, protective, soothing
The berries contain vitamins A, C, and B groups: extremely effective substances for skin care.
It has a soothing effect on delicate skin prone to redness, improving its appearance.
It has refreshing, astringent, and toning properties.
INCI Name: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
Origin: plant-based, derived from coconut
Function: emollient, film-forming, carrier of other active ingredients
It contains a fraction of caprylic acid and a fraction of capric acid. It is a reconstruction of coconut oil, containing only important fractions, which distinguishes it from regular coconut oil.
Fractionated Coconut Oil remains liquid even at low temperatures. Unlike traditional coconut oil, it does not solidify or turn into butter.
It has a lighter and drier touch compared to other vegetable oils, is absorbed quickly, and is used to produce dry oils.
INCI Name: Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil
Origin: plant-based
Function: anti-inflammatory
Sunflower extract is an excellent remedy for many skin disorders. The fatty acids present have anti-inflammatory functions that can reduce the risk of potential inflammatory skin lesions.
It is rich in vitamin E and vitamin B6, both very important for cell renewal and skin protection as they act as powerful antioxidants. It has a restructuring and repairing effect on the coat, eliminating dryness.
INCI Name: Linum Usitatissimum Seed Extract
Origin: plant-based
Function: moisturizing, antioxidant, restructuring, anti-inflammatory
Linseed oil applied to the skin has moisturizing qualities and provides elasticity to tissues. It contains linoleic acid, a substance that helps regulate skin hydration and has an elasticizing effect.
It is particularly suitable for areas prone to dry skin.
INCI Name: Simmondsia Chinensis Oil
Origin: plant-based
Function: protective for the epidermis, emollient, moisturizing.
Rich in vitamin E, B2, and B3. Resolves issues related to dry skin and itching. Combats dandruff problems, strengthens the coat.
INCI Name: Zinc oxide
Origin: natural
Function: soothing, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic
It is a white powder known for its ability to soothe skin inflammations and irritations.
It helps wounds heal faster by promoting epidermal healing and also works preventively to avoid redness or skin problems.
It is also used in sunscreens due to its ability to form a protective screen against solar rays and other atmospheric agents.
It also has antiseptic properties, meaning it can prevent bacterial proliferation and other microorganisms, anti-inflammatory and astringent.
INCI Name: Fragrance
Origin: 100% natural
Function: fragrance
Fragrances are mixtures of substances that can have different origins, natural or synthetic. The fragrances in Pippotheweim cosmetics are only mixtures of essential oils and/or substances of natural origin, completely excluding the synthetic component. The allergens present (e.g., linalool) and the non-fragrant part are also of natural origin (naturally contained in essential oils), unlike synthetic fragrances where petroleum, synthetic, or natural molecules are dissolved in glycols (petrochemical origin substances). In conclusion, the term “fragrance” in our INCI indicates substances naturally contained in essential oils.
INCI Name: Hydrogenated Ethylhexyl Olivate, Hydrogenated Olive Oil Unsaponifiables
Origin: plant-based, the natural alternative to silicones
Function: emollient, restores elasticity and softness
Makes the coat silky, restores elasticity and softness. It absorbs quickly and leaves a lasting velvety sensation.
INCI Name: Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
Origin: plant-based
Function: moisturizing, restructuring
Hydrolyzed wheat proteins are natural derivatives of wheat grains and constitute a unique moisturizing complex, capable of penetrating deeply into skin structures, offering the right water balance to the skin and providing a silky and elastic touch.
They also provide strength and shine to the coat. They act as fillers/protectors, forming a sort of barrier and restructuring damaged hair. They can also be used to reduce the aggressiveness of cleansing products.
Hydrolyzed wheat proteins are also used for dry skin.
INCI Name: Panthenol
Origin: plant-based
Function: humectant
Helps retain water in the skin and hair, thus improving hydration and softness.
Thanks to its soothing and regenerating properties, it can also be used to relieve skin irritations and redness.
INCI Name: Rosmarinus Officinalis Flower Extract
Origin: plant-based
Function: astringent, antibacterial
Excellent stimulant for the scalp and hair bulb, also regulates sebaceous secretion.
On the skin, it is used as a purifying and antimicrobial agent.
INCI Name: Salvia Officinalis
Origin: plant-based
Function: antibacterial, sebum-balancing, relaxing
Sage is known for its antibacterial power: it also acts on microorganisms that produce bad odors.
It is ideal for treating scalp infections.
INCI Name: Santalum Album Wood Oil
Origin: plant-based
Function: used as an aid in scar treatment. Known for its anti-inflammatory action: reduces itching, irritations, and inflammations.
Sandalwood is a very precious wood, and its essential oil is very expensive. It is the second most expensive wood in the world.
INCI Name: Sodium dehydroacetate
Origin: natural
Function: natural preservative for cosmetic use
INCI Name: Glycerin Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate
Origin: natural
Function: protein surfactant indicated for coat care, generates a gentle, soft, and stable foam
INCI Name: Melaleuca Oil
Origin: plant-based
Function: antiseptic, antibacterial, antifungal
Offers a long list of benefits: helps treat skin inflammations, contributes to resolving infections.
INCI Name: Vanilla Planifolia Seed Powder
Origin: plant-based
Function: its anti-inflammatory properties help speed up wound recovery and also soothe pain.
INCI Name: Tocopherol
Origin: plant-based
Function: antioxidant, protective
It is an essential nutrient for the skin. Reduces inflammation, fights UV damage.
INCI Name: Vitis Vinifera Leaf Extract
Origin: plant-based
Function: antioxidant
Red vine is a concentrate of very precious substances used in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries for its many beneficial properties for the skin and its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.
What makes the difference is the quality and purity of each individual ingredient and the formulator’s touch!