AHC Pro Shot Hyaluro-Deep Volume 5 Intra Serum

What is this product?

AHC's Pro Shot Hyaluro-Deep Volume 5 Intra Serum, 40ml, is a heavy-humectant serum for dehydrated skin that wants slip and plumpness rather than treatment, and the 5 in its name is honest: exactly five different hyaluronate forms appear among its 43 ingredients, alongside polyglutamic acid, beta-glucan and panthenol. Skip it if declared fragrance is a problem, since a fragrance entry sits twentieth. Nothing found here supports the shot or intra language: on the surfaces read for this record, the corpus listing record and two archived pages, no molecular weight for any hyaluronate, no delivery system, no amount and no pH was recovered.

What makes it different?

Two things make it worth naming. The hyaluronate stack is real and countable: five distinct forms, one of them a cationic hyaluronate that binds the skin surface and survives longer than free salts, another a crosspolymer that swells rather than dissolving, with polyglutamic acid and beta-glucan layered behind them. That is a more considered water-binding design than the single sodium hyaluronate most serums at this level carry. The second is a puffiness trio most hydration serums do not bother with, caffeine at thirty-one, escin at thirty-two and menthyl lactate at thirty-three, which is a vasoconstrictor, an anti-oedema saponin and a cooling agent, and the cooling one is the reason it will feel like it is doing something on contact. The naming works much harder than the evidence does: on the surfaces read for this record, no molecular weight, no amount and no penetration data turned up for anything in the formula, and a fragrance entry sits twentieth.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Methyl Gluceth-10
• Sorbitol
• Glycerin
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Propanediol
• Pentylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Panthenol
• Betaine
• Carbomer
• Chondrus Crispus Extract
• C12-14 Alketh-12
• Saccharum Officinarum (Sugarcane) Extract
• Tromethamine
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Fragrance
• Xanthan Gum
• Adenosine
• Cellulose
• Sodium Phytate
• Spirodela Polyrhiza Extract
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Polyglutamic Acid
• Beta-Glucan
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Caffeine
• Escin
• Menthyl Lactate
• Tocopherol
• Sucrose Palmitate
• Glyceryl Linoleate
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Cholesterol
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Chitosan
• Ceramide NP

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: C12-14알케스-12, 수크로오스팔미테이트, 글리세릴리놀리에이트, 해바라기씨오일, 하이드로제네이티드레시틴, 폴리글리세릴-10라우레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 3 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.

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