ABOUT ME SOOP Calming Aqua Cream

What is this product?

A Korean soothing gel cream from ABOUT ME, sold in an 80 ml jar as the third step of a four step line built around hinoki cypress water. Its statutory list runs to 48 entries and opens with 편백수 rather than purified water, which sits at position 9. The calming set is centella leaf, matricaria, tea tree leaf, dipotassium glycyrrhizate and allantoin, and the humectant side is dense across glycerin, butylene glycol, hexanediol, pentylene glycol, sodium hyaluronate and five sugars. There is no butter, no wax and no fixed plant oil: the lipid phase is two light silicones placed high, a hydrogenated hydrocarbon and a dimethiconol over a gel body of four acrylate polymers and a carbomer, which is why it reads light rather than rich. Three volatile plant oils, sage, mugwort and basil, sit at positions 11, 13 and 14 and carry the green herbal scent, with no fragrance entry anywhere in the list. The brand reproduces a non comedogenic result report summary naming this product, and publishes hydration, redness, water loss, adhesion and four week sebum figures from panels of 20, 21 and 22 subjects; the 100 hour hydration headline rests on a curve that falls to 48 percent of its starting gain. A pH range of 5.5 to 6.0 is stated in marketing copy. No English ingredient list appears on any page read, and no lived use reports were collected.

What makes it different?

Leads its statutory list with hinoki cypress water instead of purified water and builds the whole lipid phase from light silicones, so it behaves like a gel while being sold as a cream. It also backs the acne prone half of its positioning with a reproduced result report summary that names this product by name, which is a stronger form of evidence than the stamps beside it. The trade offs are three volatile plant oils high in the list on a product aimed at sensitive skin, a trade named calming complex that matches no printed entry, and a headline hydration figure whose own chart shows the effect more than halving across the window it advertises.

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.

Key ingredient

• Chamaecyparis Obtusa Water
• Glycerin
• Butylene Glycol
• Vinyl Dimethicone
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Caprylyl Methicone
• Niacinamide
• Pentylene Glycol
• Water
• Chlorella Vulgaris Extract
• Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Oil
• Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract
• Artemisia Vulgaris Oil
• Ocimum Basilicum (Basil) Oil
• Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Extract
• Borago Officinalis Extract
• Centaurea Cyanus Flower Extract
• Centella Asiatica Leaf Extract
• Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower/Leaf Extract
• Hyacinthus Orientalis (Hyacinth) Extract
• Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Flower Water
• Salvia Sclarea (Clary) Extract
• Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein
• Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Extract
• Hydrogenated Polydecene
• Glucose
• Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Fructooligosaccharides
• Fructose
• Cetearyl Olivate
• Dimethiconol
• Tromethamine
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Sorbitan Olivate
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Citric Acid
• Sodium Phytate
• Adenosine
• Sorbitan Isostearate
• Dextrin
• Allantoin
• Maltodextrin
• Carbomer

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: 살비아오일, 불가리스쑥오일, 바질오일, 세테아릴올리베이트, 솔비탄올리베이트, 솔비탄아이소스테아레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 38 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 of them hold 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

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