DERMAFIRM Vita Active Micro Crystal Patch Plus

What is this product?

더마펌 비타 액티브 마이크로 니들패치 플러스, sold on most surfaces as 비타 액티브 마이크로 크리스탈 패치 플러스, is a Korean dissolving microcone spot patch. A box holds three pouches, each with two 360mg patches shaped for the eye and nasolabial area and one 360mg patch for the glabella, manufactured by (주)라파스 for (주)더마펌 in Korea. Its printed Korean 전성분 is 24 tokens and its order is the unusual part: 하이드롤라이즈드하이알루로닉애씨드 is first and 정제수 only seventh, because the humectant is the structural matrix of the cones rather than a hydrating additive. The brand states that hyaluronic acid at 817,091 ppm and glutathione at 4,300 ppm, the only two levels it discloses. 아스코빌글루코사이드 is second, 나이아신아마이드 fifth, 글루타티온 eighth, 아스코빅애씨드 fifteenth and 레티놀 seventeenth, with three peptides and 소듐디엔에이 closing the list. The Korean statutory block records the product as a notified functional cosmetic for both 미백 and 주름개선, and the notified ingredient for each function is present on the label. There is no declared fragrance, no essential oil, no ethanol and no exfoliating acid on the list. Directions are specific and consistent across surfaces: apply to clean skin after a light toner, press rather than push, leave at least two hours, repeat every two or three days. No pH and no per ingredient level beyond the two disclosed appears anywhere. Consumer topic labels all name one of the two notified functions. Best for targeted work on dark spots and fine lines; caution for sensitive or retinoid naive skin and during pregnancy on account of the retinol.

What makes it different?

Three things set it apart, and the first is visible in the ingredient order rather than in any claim. Water is printed seventh, not first, because the product is not a liquid: the top of the list is a hydrolyzed hyaluronic acid the brand puts at about four fifths of the composition, with sucrose third and dextrin sixth, which is the sugar scaffold a dissolving cone is made of. Almost nothing else in the spot patch category prints an order like that, and it is the single clearest structural signature of the format. Second, the active loading is unusually wide for a patch worn two hours at a time: two vitamin C forms at 2 and 15, niacinamide at 5, glutathione at 8, retinol at 17 and three peptides plus sodium DNA at the tail, with the Korean statutory block backing the whitening and wrinkle pair as a notified functional cosmetic rather than as a marketing phrase. Buyers who see only the second will expect far more than the first supports.

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.

Key ingredient

• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Ascorbyl Glucoside
• Sucrose
• Gardenia Florida Fruit Extract
• Niacinamide
• Dextrin
• Water
• Glutathione
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil
• Allantoin
• Phosphatidylcholine
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Ascorbic Acid
• Panthenol
• Retinol
• Perilla Ocymoides Leaf Extract
• Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Extract
• Acetyl Octapeptide-3
• Acetyl Hexapeptide-8
• Sodium DNA
• Arginine/Lysine Polypeptide
• BHT

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: 돌콩오일, 폴리글리세릴-10라우레이트, 레티놀

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 7 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

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