Dong Wha Pharm Vita B Cream

What is this product?

Dong Wha Pharm's Vita B Cream is a good pick for anyone who wants a meaningful brightening dose without anything to react to: niacinamide is printed third of 38 ingredients at a disclosed 5 percent, and the other 37 contain no fragrance, no essential oil, no alcohol of any kind and no exfoliating acid. 5 percent is the level most niacinamide research is run at, so this is a real dose rather than a label mention. The catch is that it can flush, because niacinamide at that strength causes transient redness in some people and a nicotinate ester sits near the end of the list. Dong Wha Pharm publishes no test, no pH and no review record for it in the material examined.

What makes it different?

The disclosed 5 percent is the whole argument. Most creams naming niacinamide print no number, and 5 percent is exactly where the pigmentation and barrier literature sits, so the headline is checkable rather than decorative. Around it the formula is deliberately quiet: 38 entries with no oil, no butter, no fatty alcohol, no fragrance and no acid, which is a short subtraction list for a cream and leaves very little for reactive skin to catch on. It also runs the vitamin B theme past the one ingredient, with pantothenic acid and myristyl nicotinate both present. Two cautions balance that. Niacinamide at 5 percent produces transient flushing in a minority of users, myristyl nicotinate is a vasodilating nicotinate ester that points the same way, and this is a cosmetic from a pharmaceutical company whose similarly named topical drug is a different product entirely.

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
• Glycerin
• Niacinamide
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Propanediol
• Squalane
• Polyglycerin-3
• Pentylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Coptis Japonica Extract
• Vincetoxicum Atratum Extract
• Althaea Rosea Flower Extract
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Polyglyceryl-10 Distearate
• Dipropylene Glycol Dibenzoate
• Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
• Butylene Glycol
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Arginine
• Sodium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Polyquaternium-51
• Sodium Phytate
• Allantoin
• Glucosylrutin
• Ceramide NP
• Beta-Glucan
• Pantothenic Acid
• Zinc PCA
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Tocopherol
• Sucrose Cocoate
• Myristyl Nicotinate
• Totarol

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/카프릭트라이글리세라이드, 폴리글리세릴-10다이스테아레이트, 다이프로필렌글라이콜다이벤조에이트, 하이드로제네이티드레시틴, 수크로오스코코에이트, 미리스틸니코티네이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 2 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. All of them hold up.

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