Derma Factory Tranexamic Acid 6% Cream

What is this product?

A 30ml brightening cream whose name carries its own disclosure: 6 percent tranexamic acid, the ingredient sitting second on a 28 entry list behind sea buckthorn fruit water, with niacinamide eighth at an undisclosed level. The brand's own page is unusually bare, printing the ingredient list, the word Cream and a buy link with no efficacy sentence anywhere, so every efficacy word attached to this product here came from a retailer instead. One retail statutory panel leaves the functional-cosmetic examination field blank and defers to a detail page, so the whitening wording is selling copy rather than declared status. The Korean statutory list found on a retail surface diverges from the brand's own list by four entries and a swapped pair at the top, so this record keeps the brand list as the anchor and publishes the divergence rather than merging the two.

What makes it different?

Two things separate this record. The first is the brand's silence: the product page publishes a full ingredient list and a texture word and nothing else, no efficacy sentence, no test, not even a container type, which means the buying argument is carried entirely by the name and by retailers. The second is a documented divergence between two statutory ingredient disclosures for the same 30ml SKU, four entries apart with the top pair swapped, including one plant extract that appears on the retail list and a different plant extract that appears on the brand's; this record keeps the brand list as the anchor and prints the difference instead of reconciling it.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn) Fruit Water
• Tranexamic Acid
• Octyldodecanol
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Butylene Glycol
• Niacinamide
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• Caprylyl Methicone
• Cetearyl Olivate
• Sorbitan Olivate
• Polymethylsilsesquioxane
• Polyglyceryl-10 Behenate/Eicosadioate
• Ammonium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate/VP Copolymer
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil
• Eclipta Prostrata Extract
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Water (Aqua)
• Xanthan Gum
• Sorbitan Isostearate
• Fragrance (Parfum)
• Disodium EDTA
• Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract
• Bixa Orellana Seed Oil
• Moringa Pterygosperma Seed Oil
• Tocopherol

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

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

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