d'Alba Waterfull Tone-Up Sun Cream

What is this product?

A 50 ml Korean tone up sunscreen from d'Alba, built as a water led pink correcting cream. Its statutory notice lists 62 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 is hybrid: titanium dioxide at position 4 alongside three organic filters, one long wave UVA absorber and two triazone UVB absorbers. The pink shift comes from that titanium dioxide with yellow and red iron oxides at the tail of the list. The brand prints two method referenced UV tests from a named testing house on 10 subjects, with results of SPF 57.3 and PFA 19.70, and separately an eleven badge block of efficacy claims whose own footnotes describe satisfaction and preference questionnaires. No 향료 entry appears, but three volatile citrus and litsea oils do, with limonene and citral declared at the end. No INCI list, no pH figure and no water resistance grade appear on the pages read, and no lived use reports were collected.

What makes it different?

Folds the colour step into the sunscreen: titanium dioxide doubles as a filter and as the base of a pink correcting pigment set, so one morning layer carries graded UV protection, the two notified actives for brightening and wrinkle care, and the tone shift. The trade off is a thin occlusive side, three volatile citrus and litsea oils with limonene and citral declared, and an efficacy badge wall whose footnotes are questionnaires rather than the instrument readings the charts resemble.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Dibutyl Adipate
• Propanediol
• Titanium Dioxide
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate
• Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate
• Caprylyl Methicone
• Ethylhexyl Triazone
• Niacinamide
• Glycerin
• Diethylhexyl Butamido Triazone
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Pentylene Glycol
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• 분홍바늘꽃꽃/잎/줄기추출물
• 페루기네움철쭉추출물
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Prunus Persica (Peach) Flower Extract
• 복숭아추출물
• Prunus Serrulata Flower Extract
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract
• Houttuynia Cordata Extract
• Tuber Magnatum Extract
• Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Oil
• Citrus Nobilis (Mandarin Orange) Peel Oil
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Litsea Cubeba Fruit Oil
• Rosa Damascena Flower Water
• Betula Platyphylla Japonica Juice
• Panthenol
• Polyhydroxystearic Acid
• Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer
• 브이피/에이코신코폴리머
• Dimethiconol
• Trisiloxane
• Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
• Stearic Acid
• Sodium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate
• Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate
• Alumina
• Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose Stearoxy Ether
• Dicaprylyl Carbonate
• Xanthan Gum
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Adenosine
• Sodium Polyacrylate
• Triethoxycaprylylsilane
• t-Butyl Alcohol
• PVM/MA Copolymer
• Polyether-1
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Allantoin
• Butylene Glycol
• Tocopherol
• Disodium Phosphate
• Citric Acid
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Iron Oxide Yellow
• Iron Oxide Red
• Limonene
• Citral

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: 오렌지오일, 필리핀오렌지껍질오일, 리씨열매오일, 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이글리세라이드, 코코-카프릴레이트/카프레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 22 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 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

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