Ariul Apple Cider Deep Cleansing Oil

What is this product?

A 200ml Korean first step cleansing oil with an unusually short ingredient list, thirteen entries and no water at all. The base is two light esters plus soybean, grape seed and apple seed oils, which is a straightforward lipid solvent for sebum, makeup and oil soluble soil. Two things a buyer should know before choosing it. The apple cider the product is named for is genuinely present but small, and the notice discloses the figure itself: four apple derived entries at 0.1 percent each. And the formula carries one emulsifier for an entirely anhydrous base, so it is built as the first half of a double cleanse rather than a standalone wash. Fragrance is declared. The statutory notice records no whitening, wrinkle or UV designation, which fixes the ceiling on what it claims to do.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it, one in each direction. In its favour, the notice discloses concentrations, which is rare: the four apple derived entries are each printed at 0.1 percent, so the headline story is sized honestly by the label rather than left to the imagination, and a thirteen entry list is short enough for a reader to hold in one view. Against it, the same brevity means a single emulsifier carries an entirely anhydrous base, so how completely it rinses is the open question, and no surface read for this record reports the answer.

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 1 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Isopropyl Myristate
• Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil
• Sorbeth-30 Tetraoleate
• Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil
• 사과씨오일
• Vinegar
• Malus Domestica Fruit Extract
• Pyrus Malus (Apple) Juice
• Isopropyl Palmitate
• Tocopherol
• Butylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Fragrance

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: 돌콩오일, 포도씨오일, 사과씨오일, 솔베스-30테트라올리에이트, 아이소프로필미리스테이트, 아이소프로필팔미테이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 3 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 of them look 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?

Products we read alongside this one.

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