Bonajour Eggplant BHA Water Cream

What is this product?

A cream for oily-dehydrated, blemish-prone skin built around willow bark and eggplant extracts rather than a labeled BHA, and the fragrance question is not fully settled: Bonajour discloses 1,300 ppm black willow bark extract and 1,063 ppm eggplant fruit extract, but no ingredient in the 34-entry list is actually salicylic acid or a BHA derivative, so the 'natural BHA' framing rests on willow bark's salicin content rather than on a named, dosed exfoliant. The paraben and phenoxyethanol claims check out against the Korean ingredient statement, and the synthetic-fragrance claim checks out against that same statement but not against the English one this record also publishes, which names rosewood wood oil at an entry the Korean list has no counterpart for. A printed 92 percent natural-origin figure is plausible given the plant-heavy composition, though no breakdown method is disclosed. No pH is published.

What makes it different?

The naming gap is the thing to know before buying on the BHA claim: this cream prints 'natural BHA' and lists lupeol and dexpanthenol as its main actives, but no salicylic acid or salicylate derivative appears anywhere in the ingredient statement. The two willow bark extracts are the most plausible source of that framing, since willow bark naturally contains salicin, but the brand never draws that line itself, so a buyer reading 'BHA' as a dosed exfoliating acid is reading more than the label states. Set against that gap, the formula-negative disclosure (no paraben, no phenoxyethanol, no synthetic fragrance, checked against all 34 entries) and the disclosed ppm levels for both willow bark and eggplant extract are unusually specific for a cream at this price point.

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.

Key ingredient

• Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract
• Butylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• Water
• Arachidyl Alcohol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Triolein
• Glyceryl Stearate
• [more] Vegetable Oil
• Behenyl Alcohol
• Propanediol
• Glyceryl Dioleate
• Arachidyl Glucoside
• Carbomer
• Arginine
• Tocopherol
• Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract
• Salix Nigra (Willow) Bark Extract
• (-)-Alpha-Bisabolol
• Lupeol
• Caprylhydroxamic Acid
• Panthenol
• Ficus Carica (Fig) Fruit Extract
• Morus Alba Fruit Extract
• Punica Granatum Fruit Extract
• Ginkgo Biloba Nut Extract
• Aniba Rosaeodora (Rosewood) Wood Oil
• Allantoin
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Cryptomeria Japonica Leaf Extract
• Nelumbo Nucifera Leaf Extract
• Saccharomyces Ferment

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: 세틸에틸헥사노에이트, 트라이올레인, 글리세릴스테아레이트에스이, 카프릴릭 / 카프릭트라이글리세라이드, 글리세릴다이올리에이트, 하이드로제네이티드유채씨오일

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 9 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds 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