irecipe Ceramide Yuja Healing Cleansing Balm

What is this product?

Fragrance is declared outright with three named fragrance allergens behind it, so reactive or fragrance-avoiding skin should pass.

What makes it different?

Of the three cleansing balms it sits beside, this is the only one to put a number on every headline active it names, and the only one whose top review themes are about scent rather than about what it removes. irecipe also ships it overseas from its own site; whether the other two brands do the same is outside what this document checked. What it does not publish is a pH figure or an ingredient list of its own, so the ceramide story rests on a trace and nothing more.

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 3 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• 화장품법에 따라 기재
• 표시하여야 하는 모든 성분 세틸에틸헥사노에이트
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Polyglyceryl-10 Diisostearate
• Polyglyceryl-6 Dicaprate
• Synthetic Wax
• Butylene Glycol
• Water
• Sorbitan Sesquioleate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Tocopherol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Citrus Junos Fruit Extract
• Polyglyceryl-10 Isostearate
• Hydroxypropyl Bispalmitamide MEA
• Disteardimonium Hectorite
• Stearic Acid
• Phytosterols
• Pentylene Glycol
• Ceramide NP
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Fragrance
• Hexyl Cinnamal
• Limonene
• 리날룰* (*향료에 포함된 표기성분)

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: Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Sorbitan Sesquioleate, Stearic Acid

Did the ad claims hold up?

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.

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?

Products we read alongside this one.

• irecipe Ceramide Yuzu Bio Cleansing OilAnother product in the same category
• beplain Mung Bean Pore Cleansing Milk BalmAnother product in the same category
• BANILA CO Clean It Zero Pore Clarifying Cleansing BalmAnother product in the same category

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• Free-from claims are the easiest thing on a label to checkA free-from badge is one of the few marketing lines the ingredient list underneath it can settle outright. Here are five it settles.
• Ceramide products: six labels, and how much ceramide is actually in themSix Korean barrier products with ceramide on the front. Three disclose how much, and the numbers change which one you should buy quite a lot.