Arencia Red Smoothie Lotion 5

What is this product?

A 200ml milk-type lotion from the Korean brand Arencia, filed as a dual-function whitening and wrinkle cosmetic and sold as a light pre-makeup moisturiser. The printed list runs 38 entries: water, glycerin and niacinamide lead, with the brand stating 5 percent niacinamide, adenosine for the wrinkle filing, hydrolysed collagen, betaine, beta-glucan, eight plant extracts and nine peptides. The oil phase is light and there is no fragrance entry, essential oil or drying alcohol. The brand cites a 22 person efficacy test and a 31 person irritation test with a 0.00 score, but publishes no effect sizes for the efficacy claims. Suited to oily and dehydrated-oily skin that wants a thin finish; likely too light alone for very dry skin.

What makes it different?

A stated 5 percent niacinamide in a light pump lotion, carrying a statutory whitening and wrinkle dual-function filing, with a long peptide and berry-extract tail and a fragrance-free printed list. Positioned by the brand as a makeup-prep layer rather than a rich moisturiser.

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 5 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Glycerin
• Niacinamide
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• Propanediol
• C14-22 Alcohols
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Carbomer
• C12-20알킬글루코사 이드
• Tromethamine
• Adenosine
• Eclipta Prostrata Extract
• Butylene Glycol
• Betaine
• Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract
• Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract
• Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil
• 폴리글리 세릴-10라우레이트
• Hydrolyzed Collagen
• 하이드롤라이즈드익스 텐신
• Beta-Glucan
• Cornus Officinalis Fruit Extract
• Prunus Serotina (Wild Cherry) Fruit Extract
• Punica Granatum Fruit Extract
• Rubus Idaeus (Raspberry) Fruit Extract
• Vaccinium Macrocarpon (Cranberry) Fruit Extract
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Tripeptide-1
• Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1
• 아세틸테트라 펩타이드-2
• Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5
• Copper Tripeptide-1
• 헥사펩 타이드-11
• Hexapeptide-9
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5

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: 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이 글리세라이드, 세틸에틸헥사노에이트, 글리세릴스테아레이트, 폴리글리 세릴-10라우레이트, 드럼스틱씨오일

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 36 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 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