beplain Sunmuse Moisture Sunscreen

What is this product?

A 50 ml Korean sunscreen from beplain, built as a water led hydrating lotion type cream rather than an emulsion heavy sunscreen. Its statutory notice lists 30 ingredients and registers the product as a triple function cosmetic for brightening, wrinkle care and UV protection at SPF50+ and PA++++, with niacinamide and adenosine as the notified actives. Protection comes from four organic filters and no mineral filter: a long wave UVA absorber, a broad spectrum benzotriazole, and two triazone UVB absorbers. The brand cites an SPF and in vitro UVA evaluation and a patch based primary irritation study on 31 subjects, and states plainly that no water resistance testing was done, so no water resistance grade is printed. No fragrance entry and no drying alcohol appear in the printed list, and none of the six substances the brand names as a reef risk appears either. No INCI list and no pH figure appear on the pages read, and no lived use reports were collected.

What makes it different?

Runs the whole SPF50+ and PA++++ load on four organic filters with no mineral filter and no pigment, which is what lets it read as a hydrating lotion rather than a sunscreen layer, and pairs that with the two notified actives for brightening and wrinkle care in one morning step. The trade off is a thin occlusive side and a filter class that the sunscreen contact reaction literature is written about, plus a candid brand admission that nothing about water resistance was tested.

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.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Dibutyl Adipate
• Propanediol
• Polymethylsilsesquioxane
• Diisopropyl Sebacate
• Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate
• Ethylhexyl Triazone
• Niacinamide
• Methylene Bis-Benzotriazolyl Tetramethylbutylphenol
• Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
• Diethylhexyl Butamido Triazone
• Glycerin
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Butylene Glycol
• Caprylyl Methicone
• Pentylene Glycol
• Behenyl Alcohol
• Poly C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Decyl Glucoside
• Tromethamine
• Carbomer
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate
• Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Adenosine
• Xanthan Gum
• t-Butyl Alcohol
• Tocopherol

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: 코코-카프릴레이트/카프레이트, 폴리글리세릴-3메틸글루코오스다이스테아레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 30 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 5 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

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

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