Gloou Hapcore Layered Cream

What is this product?

Gloou's Hapcore Layered Cream is a 50ml water-in-oil face cream with an unusually peptide-heavy tail. Thirteen peptide entries run from position 29 to 41 of a 41-item list, which is a real and checkable count and also means every one of them is a minor entry at an undisclosed level. The ingredient that actually defines the product is sodium chloride at position 9: salt that high signals a water-in-oil emulsion, and together with the oleate and sorbitan emulsifiers at 7 through 11 and a hectorite clay at 13 it explains the richness, the slow absorption and the poor fit for oily skin. Niacinamide sits at 6 and adenosine at 17, both ingredients Korea regulates as functional actives at specified levels, but no statutory disclosure block was recovered for this item so their status is unestablished here. The panel is brand-published, taken from the ingredients tab of the brand's own product page. No exfoliating acid or enzyme appears anywhere in the list.

What makes it different?

Three things set it apart from the firmness creams beside it. First, the peptide count is genuine rather than decorative: thirteen separate peptide entries, not one peptide plus a name, though all thirteen sit in the tail and none carries a stated level. Second, it is a water-in-oil emulsion, which is a minority construction in Korean face creams and is legible from the list itself through sodium chloride at position 9 and an oleate-and-sorbitan emulsifier block; it is why the cream behaves richer than its humectant list would predict. Third, and least flattering, it carries a mint essential oil at position 14 with no fragrance entry declared anywhere, which means a reader screening for fragrance by looking for the usual label will miss it.

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 3 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

• Water
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Glycerin
• Propanediol
• Niacinamide
• Polyglyceryl-4 Oleate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Sodium Chloride
• Sorbitan Sesquioleate
• 폴리글리세릴-6올리에이트
• Polyhydroxystearic Acid
• Disteardimonium Hectorite
• Mentha Arvensis Leaf Oil
• Barosma Betulina Leaf Extract
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Adenosine
• Rosa Damascena Flower Water
• Disodium EDTA
• 오이풀뿌리추출물
• Beta-Glucan
• Butylene Glycol
• Tremella Fuciformis (Mushroom) Extract
• Glycine
• Proline
• 자주천인국추출물
• Borago Officinalis Extract
• Hydroxyproline
• Acetyl Hexapeptide-8
• Arginine/Lysine Polypeptide
• Copper Tripeptide-1
• Tripeptide-1
• Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1
• Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4
• Oligopeptide-1
• Nonapeptide-1
• Hexapeptide-11
• Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3
• Dipeptide-2
• Palmitoyl Hexapeptide-12

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: 콘민트오일, 세틸에틸헥사노에이트, 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이글리세라이드, 폴리글리세릴-4올리에이트, 솔비탄세스퀴올리에이트, 폴리글리세릴-6올리에이트, 폴리하이드록시스테아릭애씨드

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 6 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them looks likely, though none are proven outright.

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

What else is worth seeing?

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Which articles cover it?

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• Peptide labels do not carry one peptide, they carry a pile of them163 Korean labels carry a peptide and between them they print 734 peptide entries. One label alone accounts for 48 of those, and it prints a level for none.