Benton Mineral Sun Stick

What is this product?

A 15 g mineral sun stick from the Korean brand Benton, labelled SPF50+ and PA++++ and filed as a UV protection functional cosmetic, sold on the brand's own storefront. Its 39 entry list is an ester, wax and powder stick with titanium dioxide at sixth as the only UV filter entry; water sits 37th. Centella extract with three centella derived entries, purslane extract, three hyaluronic entries, allantoin, panthenol and tocopherol appear in small positions. No fragrance entry, essential oil or ethanol entry is printed. The brand posts in vivo SPF and UVA report copies with the laboratory name masked, plus irritation, pediatric and repeated patch test summaries. It footnotes that the stick is not waterproof. No English ingredient list appears on the surfaces collected, and no lived use reports were collected.

What makes it different?

Next to another brand's landed mineral stick, which pairs zinc oxide with titanium dioxide and a photostabilizer, this one relies on titanium dioxide alone and backs its SPF and PA labels with posted in vivo copies for the same product code, plus an infant acceptability test. A brand scan by the Korean brand name found two landed records for this brand besides this one, both toners, so there is no same line sun care record to compare against. The trade-offs: no water resistance, a brand admission that it can mark dark clothing, and white cast claims resting on in house photos.

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.

• Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Wax Helianthus Annuus Seed Cera
• 프로필렌글라이콜다이카프릴레이트
• HDI/Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer
• C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate
• Titanium Dioxide
• Dicaprylyl Carbonate
• Synthetic Fluorphlogopite
• Vinyl Dimethicone
• Microcrystalline Wax
• Aluminum Stearate
• Polyhydroxystearic Acid
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Polyglyceryl-4 Diisostearate/Polyhydroxystearate/Sebacate
• Silica
• Alumina
• Pentylene Glycol
• Allantoin
• Panthenol
• Glycerin
• Madecassic Acid
• Asiaticoside
• Asiatic Acid
• Xylitylglucoside
• Anhydroxylitol
• Xylitol
• Glucose
• Glyceryl Caprylate
• Triethoxycaprylylsilane
• Stearic Acid
• Tocopherol
• Water
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Ethylhexylglycerin

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 49 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 14 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

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