Hair conditioning
What is Hydroxyethyl Urea?
This ingredient is listed in CosIng, the European Commission’s public database of cosmetic ingredients. The function classes that database records for it are: Hair conditioning, Humectant, Skin conditioning.
A function class records the role an ingredient is put in a formula for. It is what the database files the ingredient under, not a finding of ours about what it does on skin.
Which products use it?
Of the 130 products whose labels we have read, 2 put this one on the front.
ZEROID
Foaming Cleanser
We checked 3 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.
1backed1partly backed1no evidence
See the label check (3 lines)
Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.
- From the June 2017 production lot onwards, bitter orange extract among the ingredients of 'Zeroid Foaming Cleanser' can no longer be used owing to circumstances at the raw material supplier.
Korean original
2017년 6월 생산분부터 '제로이드 포밍클렌저'의 성분 중 비터오렌지추출물 이 원료 공급사의 사정으로 더이상 사용하지 못하게 되었습니다.
- A low irritation moisturising cleanser in a foam texture for dry and sensitive skin
Korean original
건조하고 민감한 피부를 위한 거품 제형 저자극 보습 세정제
- 'Zeroid Pimprove Foaming Cleanser', a foam cleanser for oily sensitive skin, released
Korean original
지성민감성 피부용 거품 세안제 '제로이드 핌프로브 포밍클렌저' 출시
LAGOM
Micro Pore Cleansing Oil
We checked 8 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.
2partly backed2overstated4no evidence
See the label check (8 lines)
Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.
- A cleansing oil with a light texture
Korean original
가벼운 제형의 클렌징 오일
- Core ingredients: hydroxyethyl urea, soapberry extract, soapwort leaf extract
Korean original
핵심성분 하이드록시에틸우레아, 무환자추출물, 비누풀잎추출물
- From 99% perfect cleansing to pore tightening
Korean original
99% 완벽 클렌징부터 모공 타이트닝까지
- Moisture cleansing oil
Korean original
수분 클렌징 오일
- With fine micro oil particles
Korean original
미세한 마이크로 오일 입자로
- 99% perfect cleansing
Korean original
99% 완벽 클렌징
- 99% cleansing of pore impurities
Korean original
99% 모공노폐물 세정
- Deep cleansingㅣultrafine dust cleansing
Korean original
딥 클렌징ㅣ초 미세먼지 세정
Do the ad lines about it hold up?
We checked the one advertised line that names this ingredient.
| How it read | Ad lines |
|---|---|
| partly backed | 1 of 1 |
The count is of advertised lines, not products. One product can advertise the same ingredient in several lines, and each line was read on its own against the ingredient list and public documents.