BIOME ACTIVATE Multi Balm Stick

What is this product?

바이옴액티베이트 멀티밤 스틱 is an 8.9g stick balm, sold on the brand's own storefront as product number 151, and it is a declared dual functional cosmetic for wrinkle care and brightening with 알파-비사보롤 at position 11 supplying the brightening mechanism. The 53 item list is a lipid stack: ten oils at positions 17 through 26 of which seven are non volatile, shea butter, three waxes and eight peptides in the tail, with humectants only at 37 to 39, so it seals water rather than supplying it. The brand publishes the full numeric series behind both of its percentage claims from a 21 person in-house study, and it prints its own caution that oily and combination skin should use it thinly. Two of the three oils it names for its High Shiny Oil Complex are absent from its own statutory list. Scented via five essential oils with two declared fragrance allergens.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it. It is a declared dual functional cosmetic in a stick balm format, naming both registered functions rather than leaving the row at a bare yes, which is unusual for a small brand on its own cafe24 storefront. And the brand publishes the underlying numeric series for both of its percentage claims, the gloss readings in SGU and the hydration readings in A.U with participant count and significance level, which is what makes those claims gradeable at all rather than headline-only. The offsetting finding is a naming discrepancy: the oil complex it markets names two members that are not on its own ingredient list.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• Octyldodecanol
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Synthetic Wax
• 폴리글리세릴-2아이소스테아레이트/다이머다이리놀리에이트코폴리머
• Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
• Tocopheryl Acetate
• Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax
• Microcrystalline Wax
• Hydrogenated Polyisobutene
• (-)-alpha-bisabolol
• 글리세릴베헤네이트/에이코사디오에이트
• Sorbitan Sesquioleate
• Tocopherol
• Triethyl Citrate
• Dehydroacetic Acid
• Juniperus Virginiana Oil
• Camellia Sinensis Seed Oil
• Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Camellia Japonica Seed Oil
• Macadamia Integrifolia Seed Oil
• Citrus Limon (Lemon) Peel Oil
• Hippophae Rhamnoides Fruit Oil
• 고수오일
• Water
• 모나스커스추출물
• Sucrose
• Ascorbic Acid
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• Ocimum Basilicum (Basil) Oil
• Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Oil
• 유자씨추출물
• Anemarrhena Asphodeloides Root Extract
• Alkanna Tinctoria Root Extract
• Butylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Soy Amino Acids
• Yeast Extract
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Bifida Ferment Lysate
• Acetyl Hexapeptide-8
• Copper Tripeptide-1
• Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7
• Nonapeptide-1
• Tripeptide-1
• Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1
• Hexapeptide-9
• Linalool
• Limonene

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: 연필향나무오일, 레몬껍질오일, 고수오일, 바질오일, 센티드제라늄꽃오일, 해바라기씨오일, 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이글리세라이드, 시어버터, 솔비탄세스퀴올리에이트, 올리브오일, 동백나무씨오일, 퀸즈랜드넛오일, 녹차씨오일, 아르간커넬오일, 비타민나무열매오일, 옥틸도데칸올

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 11 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.

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.

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