The lab by BLANC DOUX Oligo Hyaluronic Acid 7 Multi Formula Pad

What is this product?

A jar of 60 cotton pads, 120 g, soaked in a water based hydrating and soothing essence and sold from the brand's own storefront. Its ingredient list came from page text rather than from a picture, and the brand prints a level inside the list itself: sodium hyaluronate is declared at 2,500 ppm at position 5 of 28. The rest of the list is water, three glycols, ten plant extracts running through the middle, panthenol, allantoin, betaine, arginine and preservation support. There is no fragrance entry, no ethanol, no essential oil, no oil or butter of any kind, no silicone, no colourant, no paraben and no entry printed with the acid suffix. The page carries four cited tests from named institutes, including a patch test on 34 subjects selected as sensitive reporting a 0.00 grade. Two claims go unchecked: the improvement percentages are printed without the values they were computed from, and the copy says seven plant materials where the list prints ten.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it. First, a disclosure practice that is rare on a statutory list: the hyaluronate level is printed inside the ingredient entry itself, at 2,500 ppm, so the headline ingredient claim can be checked against the label rather than taken on trust. Second, an exclusion profile that is complete rather than partial, verified across all 28 entries: no fragrance, no ethanol, no essential oil, no plant oil or butter, no silicone, no colourant, no paraben and no acid suffix entry, paired with a patch test on 34 sensitive subjects. Against that, two things a reader should weigh: the improvement percentages are published without the baseline and post values behind them, and the cotton claim on the substrate has no fibre statement or certification on any surface read here.

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 1 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• 부처스브룸뿌리추출물
• Panthenol
• Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract
• Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract
• Polygonum Cuspidatum Root Extract
• Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract
• Carbomer
• Betaine
• Camellia Japonica Leaf Extract
• Allantoin
• Arginine
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Propanediol
• Caffeine
• Althaea Rosea Flower Extract
• Tocopherol
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Xanthan Gum
• Disodium EDTA
• Ethylhexylglycerin

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: 폴리글리세릴-10라우레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 15 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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