Bring Green Zinc TECA Trouble Spot Gel

What is this product?

Bring Green's Zinc TECA Trouble Spot Gel is a 15ml spot treatment for active blemishes on skin that tolerates acids, and its centella load is the reason to pick it: asiaticoside at 2,000 ppm with madecassic and asiatic acid at 1,500 ppm each, 5,000 ppm of triterpenes in total, printed on the label. The zinc in its name is the weak half at 10 ppm, 500 times less than the centella side. Bring Green publishes no pH, which for a formula built on both glycolic and salicylic acid is the number that decides whether the acids work at all.

What makes it different?

Naming a product after two ingredients and then printing an amount for both is rare, and this label does it: four entries carry disclosed levels, which is four more than most spot treatments offer. The centella side is genuinely dosed at 5,000 ppm of isolated triterpenes rather than an unquantified extract parked near the end of the list. The zinc side is decorative by comparison, 10 ppm, and that gap is the single most useful thing to know before buying it for the zinc. Pregnancy is the clear avoidance axis, because salicylic acid sits 14th at an undisclosed amount, while on the other side there is no fragrance entry and no drying alcohol anywhere in the 36 ingredients.

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
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Silica
• Ethoxydiglycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Niacinamide
• Tromethamine
• Carbomer
• Panthenol
• Glycolic Acid
• Octyldodecanol
• 아시아티코사이드#
• Salicylic Acid
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Glycolipids
• 마데카식애씨드#
• 아시아틱애씨드#
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• C12-13 Alketh-9
• Butylene Glycol
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Ficus Carica (Fig) Fruit Extract
• Lactococcus Ferment Lysate
• Ceramide NP
• 징크피씨에이#
• Fructooligosaccharides
• Cyperus Rotundus Root Extract
• Sodium Chloride
• Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil
• Phytosphingosine
• Dioscorea Japonica Root Extract
• Corchorus Olitorius Leaf Extract
• Nelumbo Nucifera Root Extract
• Hibiscus Esculentus Fruit Extract
• 신선초추출물

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: 옥틸도데칸올, 하이드로제네이티드레시틴, 마카다미아씨오일, 글라이코리피드, 살리실릭애씨드

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 2 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.

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