irecipe Ceramide Yuzu Bio Cleansing Oil

What is this product?

Buy this one to strip sebum and blackheads, not for the blackhead number on the front: irecipe prints a 68 percent single-use blackhead reduction while its own test table gives 47.06 percent for blackheads, and the 68.91 percent it resembles belongs to a separate sebum measurement. It is a self-emulsifying oil you work into a dry face and rinse off with lukewarm water, and the brand asks for a second foam cleanse only on heavy makeup or sunscreen days.

What makes it different?

What is unusual is how much testing it prints and how little of it can be checked: eleven named human-use line items covering sebum, blackheads, whiteheads, roughness, porphyrin, moisture, inflammatory lesions, irritation and the removal of sunscreen, waterproof makeup and fine dust, all credited to an institution given only as the initials KBRC, with no panel size and no date. irecipe also publishes no ingredient list in Korean or English, no pH and no capacity, so the EZLite oil and CERAPLEX ceramide stories cannot be checked against anything. And the headline number on the front contradicts the very table it is drawn from.

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 7 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them looks likely, though none are proven outright.

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

What else is worth seeing?

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