Abib Airy sunstick Smoothing bar SPF50+ PA++++

What is this product?

A wax-and-silicone sun stick with four organic UV filters, including silica high in the list for a dry, powdery finish, plus camellia seed oil, sunflower-derived emollients, allantoin and ectoin later in the list. Best suited to oily or combination skin that wants a no-shine reapplication format, with double cleansing recommended by the brand for the water-resistant formula.

What makes it different?

The filter system combines four organic UV filters placed in the top of the list, and the brand prints measured values of SPF 50+ 59.6±6.2 and PA++++ 16.5±2.7. A water-resistance test with a stated period is noted, though the testing institution name is not printed on the page. Comfort ingredients stay light: allantoin and ectoin near the end of the 32-item list, with no fragrance or essential oils found.

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Each name links to what we know about that ingredient.

This brand publishes its ingredient list in Korean only. Names below are the matching INCI names from the Korean Cosmetic Association ingredient dictionary, except 6 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Dimethicone
• Synthetic Wax
• 호모살레이트
• Silica
• 아이소에이코산
• Octocrylene
• Phenylpropyldimethylsiloxysilicate
• 에칠헥실살리실레이트
• Isopropyl Palmitate
• Diisostearyl Malate
• Butyloctyl Salicylate
• Isononyl Isononanoate
• 부틸메톡시디벤조일메탄
• Phenethyl Benzoate
• Diethylhexyl Carbonate
• Synthetic Fluorphlogopite
• Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
• Polyethylene
• Bis-Behenyl/Isostearyl/Phytosteryl Dimer Dilinoleyl Dimer Dilinoleate
• Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer
• 에틸렌/프로필렌코폴리머
• Camellia Japonica Seed Oil
• Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax
• 해바라기씨오일불검화물
• Silica Dimethyl Silylate
• Dimethicone Crosspolymer
• Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax
• Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer
• Lecithin
• Pentaerythrityl Tetra-di-t-butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate
• Allantoin
• Ectoin

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

We could not place these in the list above: 아이소프로필팔미테이트, 폴리에틸렌

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 8 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.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

Each line is quoted as the brand published it, and each one was read on its own against the ingredient list and the documents the brand publishes.

How we read these lines