DERMAFIRM PEPTOLOGY BOOSTING AMPOULE RETINOID

What is this product?

A 30 ml pump ampoule from a Korean peptide focused skincare brand, sold as a pore and texture product with a retinoid. The 38 printed entries put the retinoid ester hydroxypinacolone retinoate at 14, niacinamide at 7, panthenol at 12, adenosine at 24 and two palmitoyl peptides at 31 and 32 in a light emulsion with six hyaluronate forms, and no retinol entry. The brand prints 0.2 percent for the retinoid, 1.5 percent for niacinamide and 0.5 percent for panthenol in its images, while the statutory table prints no level. There is no fragrance entry, no essential oil, no plant extract and no silicone. The two acid named entries are hyaluronic acid forms, so there is no exfoliating acid. The brand allows day and night use with sunscreen required in daytime. The page's three day pore promise is not carried by its footnotes, and the storefront's statutory table is ambiguous on wrinkle functional status.

What makes it different?

Three things separate it. The retinoid is the ester form alone, printed at 14 of 38 entries, where the landed rivals measured here print the same ester in their mid thirties and pair it with retinol. The support set is a named niacinamide, panthenol and peptide trio with brand stated levels. The evidence pattern is the third: one clean patch test on this product with a zero score, surrounded by pore percentages whose footnotes do not say three days, a retinol irritation comparison from a one person test in 2014, and a collagen figure from a cell test on the peptide raw material.

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

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Hydrogenated Poly(C6-14 Olefin)
• Dimethyl Isosorbide
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Glycerin
• Niacinamide
• Caprylic/Capric/Succinic Triglyceride
• Propanediol
• Tocopherol
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Panthenol
• Carbomer
• Hydroxypinacolone Retinoate
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Cetearyl Olivate
• Tromethamine
• Allantoin
• Sorbitan Olivate
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Cetearyl Glucoside
• Sodium Polyacrylate
• Adenosine
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Disodium EDTA
• Hydrolyzed Collagen
• Benzyl Glycol
• Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Collagen
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate

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: 카프릴릭/카프릭/석시닉트라이글리세라이드, 폴리글리세릴-3메틸글루코오스다이스테아레이트, 세테아릴올리베이트, 솔비탄올리베이트, 세테아릴알코올, 하이드록시피나콜론레티노에이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 38 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 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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