DEWYTREE Urban Shade Cool Calming Sun Stick

What is this product?

A 20g Korean sun stick filed for three functions at once: UV protection at SPF50+ PA++++, whitening, and wrinkle improvement, each carried by a named notified active. Its filter set is organic only, four of them, with no zinc oxide or titanium dioxide at any position, so there is no mineral white cast route. It leads with water at position 1 rather than with wax, and that is where its cooling feel comes from: the panel contains no menthol, no menthyl cooling agent and no alcohol, so the cool is evaporative rather than active. The finish is built dry-touch on two silicone elastomer networks. Fourteen botanical extracts and one essential oil, rosemary leaf, sit below the filter block. No fragrance entry, no exfoliating acid, no drying alcohol. Best read as a portable reapplication filter rather than as a soothing or hydrating step.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it from its neighbours on the shelf. First, the filter set is organic only, four filters with no mineral filter at any position, which removes the mineral scattering route that produces a white cast. Second, water sits at position 1 ahead of every wax, making this a water-carrying stick rather than an anhydrous one, and that, not any cooling agent, is what produces the cool the name sells.

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.

• Water
• Dibutyl Adipate
• Synthetic Wax
• Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
• Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer
• Butyloctyl Salicylate
• Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate
• Butylene Glycol
• Ethylhexyl Triazone
• Ozokerite
• Niacinamide
• Vinyl Dimethicone
• Polysilicone-15
• Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine
• Polyglyceryl-4 Diisostearate/Polyhydroxystearate/Sebacate
• Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract
• Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract
• Coccinia Indica Fruit Extract
• Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract
• Aloe Barbadensis Flower Extract
• Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract
• Corallina Officinalis Extract
• Ocimum Sanctum Leaf Extract
• Agave Tequilana Leaf Extract
• Laminaria Japonica Extract
• Ulmus Davidiana Root Extract
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract
• Viola Mandshurica Flower Extract
• Dioscorea Japonica Root Extract
• Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Oil
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Oil
• Betula Platyphylla Japonica Juice
• Sodium Chloride
• Glyceryl Caprylate
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Lauryl Polyglyceryl-3 Polydimethylsiloxyethyl Dimethicone
• Polyglyceryl-5 Polyricinoleate
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Adenosine
• Tocopherol
• Panthenol
• Glycerin
• 1,2-Hexanediol

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: 로즈마리잎오일, 코코-카프릴레이트/카프레이트, 폴리글리세릴-4다이아이소스테아레이트/폴리하이드록시스테아레이트/세바케이트, 호호바씨오일, 쌀겨오일, 폴리글리세릴-5폴리리시놀리에이트, 합성왁스, 오조케라이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 4 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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