COSNORI Micro Active Lip and Eye Remover

What is this product?

A 100ml Korean bi-phase lip and eye makeup remover from COSNORI, shaken before use and applied on a cotton pad with a ten second press before wiping. Its statutory list runs 30 entries and is built on water, cyclopentasiloxane and isohexadecane, the solvent combination used for waterproof and film forming pigment, with no surfactant present. Sea water sits at position 23 and sunflower seed oil at 26, the two materials the brand names. Thirteen botanical extracts occupy the middle of the list, and ethanol appears second from last. No fragrance is declared. No functional cosmetic review was filed and no irritation or ocular testing appears on any surface read.

What makes it different?

Two things stand out. It carries no fragrance entry at all, which is uncommon in a category applied to the eye area. And its statutory list is unusually short at 30 entries with no surfactant, so removal rests entirely on solvent action and a following cleanse is part of the method rather than optional.

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 4 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Cyclopentasiloxane
• Isohexadecane
• Butylene Glycol
• Sodium Chloride
• 당아욱추출물
• Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Leaf Extract
• Achillea Millefolium Extract
• Chamaecyparis Obtusa Leaf Extract
• Melissa Officinalis Leaf Extract
• 황산앵초추출물
• 스피드웰추출물
• 레이디스맨틀추출물
• Origanum Vulgare Leaf Extract
• Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract
• Tocopheryl Acetate
• Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract
• Cinnamomum Cassia Bark Extract
• Lactobacillus/Soybean Ferment Extract
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Sodium Hydroxide
• Pentylene Glycol
• Sea Water
• Disodium EDTA
• Illicium Verum (Anise) Fruit Extract
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• Glycerin
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Alcohol
• 1,2-Hexanediol

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: 해바라기씨오일

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 9 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 6 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