{"id":17638,"date":"2018-10-11T19:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T02:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17638"},"modified":"2018-10-11T19:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T02:03:39","slug":"aqua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/10\/11\/aqua\/","title":{"rendered":"aqua"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Just looked at the list of ingredients for a skin lotion; the first ingredient listed was \u201caqua.\u201d I figured it probably referred to water, but I\u2019m not used to water being called anything other than water in ingredients lists, so I poked around a little further.<\/p>\r\n<p>Turns out it\u2019s not at all unusual, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Why-do-cosmetics-companies-call-water-aqua\">Quora answer<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>The ingredient labels for all cosmetics\/skincare\/haircare are required by law to list all of the ingredients in the formula using their INCI (International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients) names.<\/p>\r\n<p>The INCI name for \"water\" is \"aqua\".<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specific-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17641,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions\/17641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}