Dr.G Green Mild Up Sun Stick

What is this product?

Buy this if you want a mineral only sun stick and you are not avoiding fragrance. Zinc oxide at position 2 is the only UV filter in 43 entries, and the list carries what a mineral formula needs to avoid looking chalky: a silane coating agent and a polyhydroxystearic acid dispersant. The soothing block is unusually long, running Centella, pine bark, green tea, camellia leaf and a lactobacillus ferment, with ectoin near the end. The catch is the last ingredient in the list, 향료, on a product a retailer summarises as low irritation, with no allergen breakdown and no irritation test anywhere in this record. Note also that the brand's own site never responded across two collection rounds, so the protection grade here comes from a price comparison page rather than from Dr.G.

What makes it different?

A single filter mineral stick with the coating and dispersant chemistry that mineral formulas need, paired with a botanical soothing block longer than the format usually carries.

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 9 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Octyldodecanol
• Zinc Oxide
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• 벤조트라이아졸릴도데실p-크레솔
• Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
• C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate
• Isopropyl Palmitate
• Acrylates Copolymer
• Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate
• 실리카실릴레이트
• 다이부틸라우로일글루타마이드
• 다이부틸에틸헥사노일글루타마이드
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Butyloctyl Salicylate
• Dextrin Palmitate
• Vinyl Dimethicone
• Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Mentha Viridis (Spearmint) Extract
• Pinus Pinaster Bark Extract
• Caesalpinia Spinosa Fruit Extract
• Kappaphycus Alvarezii Extract
• 밀몽화꽃추출물
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract
• 동백나무잎추출물
• 로켓잎추출물
• Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Sprout Extract
• Brassica Oleracea Italica (Broccoli) Sprout Extract
• 자주개자리추출물
• Glyceryl Caprylate
• Triethoxycaprylylsilane
• Polyhydroxystearic Acid
• Polyglyceryl-6 Polyricinoleate
• Tocopherol
• Water
• 7-데하이드로콜레스테롤
• Ectoin
• Propanediol
• Butylene Glycol
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Fragrance

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: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Isopropyl Palmitate, Octyldodecanol

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 3 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them looks likely, though none are proven outright.

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?

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