Ingredients

Every Ingredient Has a Purpose

What's in the range, what each ingredient does, and why it earned its place. Reviewed and approved by our medical and dermatology advisors.

Why We Formulate This Way

What Active Living Does

Every GYMSKIN product is built from a list of ingredients chosen for what active living actually does to skin and hair. No padding, no mystery blends, nothing that isn't on the label.

Most skincare is formulated for a body at rest. Ours is formulated for five kinds of stress that come with an active life, and every ingredient in the range answers at least one of them:

Sweat

It draws moisture out, disrupts your skin's balance and feeds the bacteria behind odour and breakouts. That's why the range runs on humectants that put moisture back, actives that keep pores clear, and ingredients that target odour at its source.

Hard water

Dubai's water leaves calcium and magnesium on skin and hair with every single shower. That's why chelating agents appear in four of our products — an ingredient category most brands never think about, because most brands weren't formulated here.

Frequent washing

Training means showering more, and every wash takes something from the skin barrier. That's why sulfate free cleansing systems and barrier rebuilding actives run through the whole range: what washing takes, something has to put back.

Shared equipment & friction

Bars, ropes, mats and grip work. That's why there's a tested antibacterial hand wash and controlled physical exfoliation built for skin that works.

Heat & sun

Outdoor training adds oxidative stress on top of everything else. That's why antioxidants appear across the range, from Vitamin E to a superfood complex.

One rule sits under all of it: if an ingredient doesn't answer one of these, it isn't in the bottle.

The Ingredients, A to Z

Antioxidant support relates to skin and hair exposed to sun, heat and environment. It is not a substitute for sunscreen. Full ingredient lists are on every product page and on pack.

Aloe Vera

Soothes & calms

The range's quiet workhorse, in seven of eight products. On skin, it soothes irritation and takes the redness out of post training skin. On the scalp, it calms what sweat and daily washing stir up.

Allantoin

Calms & smooths

A calming, conditioning active. It settles irritation and smooths skin texture over time, in the hand wash and body lotion, the two products for skin that takes the most daily punishment.

Açaí Berry

Antioxidant

A superfood antioxidant. Part of the body lotion's defence against the oxidative stress an outdoor life builds.

Antibacterial Active (Benzalkonium Chloride)

Antibacterial

The reason the hand wash can say antibacterial and prove it: tested on the finished formula against what shared equipment leaves behind.

Argan Oil

Shine & repair

Feeds shine back into worn hair and tames the frizz hard water causes.

Arnica Montana

Anti-inflammatory

A botanical for the post workout moment: calms the skin inflammation training causes and soothes redness before you're even dressed.

Bergamot Oil

Odour control

Targets odour causing bacteria at the source. It's why our products smell clean instead of covering up.

Betaine Salicylate

Gentle exfoliant

A gentle pore exfoliant that works without a rinse, built for the wipes.

Bilberry Seed Oil

Antioxidant

A superfruit antioxidant for hair that trains in the sun.

Centella Asiatica

Calms redness

A botanical that calms redness the moment training ends.

Chamomile

Soothes sensitivity

Settles and soothes sensitive skin.

Coconut Derived Cleansing Systems

Sulfate free cleanser

Every wash product in the range is sulfate free. These cleansers clear sweat, oil and buildup thoroughly, then stop, without stripping what your skin and hair need to keep. Built for people who wash every single day.

Coconut Oil

Deep conditioning

Deeply conditions hair dried out by chlorine, salt and sun.

Glycerin

Moisture retention

In everything, on purpose. Every product in this range deals with washing, and washing takes moisture. Glycerin draws it back in and holds it there.

Green Tea

Antioxidant

The best studied of our superfood extracts, countering everyday oxidative stress.

Hyaluronic Acid

Moisture specialist

The range's moisture specialist, wherever moisture is lost. For skin, it replenishes what sessions sweat out and binds hydration in after showers. Overnight, it rebuilds while you sleep.

Himalayan Pink Salt

Mineral replenish

A mineral concentrate that replenishes what sweat draws from your skin.

Hydrolyzed Keratin

Repairs hair shaft

The same protein hair is made of. It reinforces damaged areas of the shaft and reduces breakage from chlorine, heat and daily washing — in both haircare products, because damage doesn't stop at the shampoo.

Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein

Restores structure

Keratin's partner: restores structure and adds back the body daily washing flattens.

Jojoba Seed Oil

Fast-absorbing moisture

Moisture your skin recognises, absorbed in 30 seconds with no residue.

Niacinamide

Barrier repair

One of the best evidenced actives in skincare, and one of our hardest working. On skin, it rebuilds the barrier constant washing wears down. On the scalp, it calms what sweat and washing irritate.

Panthenol (Pro Vitamin B5)

Strength & manageability

Strength and manageability for hair washed every day.

Rosemary Leaf Water

Scalp health

Keeps the scalp healthy under daily washing.

Salicylic Acid

Clears breakouts

Our answer to the biggest skin problem in the gym: breakouts. It targets the pore clogging buildup behind them at three moments: in the scrub for the daily clear out, face and body; in the wipes (alongside Willow Bark) when sweat has to sit; and in Night Restore, working overnight in leave on form.

Shea Butter

Replenishes oils

Puts back the oils daily showers strip, without the grease.

Smoothing System

Anti-frizz

Detangles without tugging and shields the hair cuticle, cutting the friction that becomes frizz.

Sweet Almond Oil

Nourishing fatty acids

Nourishes with essential fatty acids, day and night.

Tetrasodium EDTA

Hard water chelator

The hard water specialist, and the ingredient category most brands never think about. For hair: the shampoo uses it to pull out the minerals Dubai water leaves behind, and the conditioner finishes the job for a cleaner rinse. For skin: it does the same work in the body wash and hand wash, so hard water never gets to finish its own.

Vitamin A (Retinyl Palmitate)

Skin renewal

The gentle form of skincare's most proven renewal active — chosen deliberately, because gentle is what makes nightly use possible. In Night Restore it's encapsulated in our Nanosphere system, released gradually while you sleep. In the scrub it supports renewal over time.

Vitamin E

Antioxidant

Antioxidant protection, countering free radical damage across the range.

Volcanic Microstones

Physical exfoliant

A naturally rounded physical exfoliant: controlled enough for training frequency in the scrub, tough enough for the callus buildup grip work creates in the hand wash.

Willow Bark

Exfoliant

A botanical exfoliant that targets breakout causing buildup when a shower has to wait.

More than just clean.

Every claim traces to a labeled ingredient, reviewed by our medical and dermatology advisors.

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