HYCL HYCL LHA TONE&GLOW SOFTENING SERUM

What is this product?

A Korean LHA serum from HYCL, sold as a 30 mL dropper bottle and filed as a wrinkle improvement functional cosmetic. The 40 entry list is a water and glycol base with capryloyl salicylic acid printed at 5,000 ppm, adenosine, thioctic acid and a set of botanical extracts, with no fragrance entry. The brand's numbers come from a single use test on 21 women read right after application, where texture and tone changed by about 7 and 4 percent, plus a self reported survey. The brand warns of itching or stinging at first. No pH figure and no English ingredient list were available, and no lived use reports were collected.

What makes it different?

An LHA serum that prints the acid level in its ingredient notice, at 5,000 ppm, and pairs it with a wrinkle improvement filing and thioctic acid. Against two other landed LHA serums that list the acid lower down without a level, it shares a humectant and adenosine core. The trade-offs are in the evidence: single use and self reported numbers, version and release wording with nothing behind it, and a brand image carrying a synthetic image manifest.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Propanediol
• Methylpropanediol
• Butylene Glycol
• Methyl Gluceth-20
• Glycerin
• Glycereth-26
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Potentilla Anserina Extract
• Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract
• Cynara Scolymus (Artichoke) Leaf Extract
• Malachite Extract
• Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Extract
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Cyperus Rotundus Root Extract
• Morus Alba Root Extract
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Water
• Capryloyl Salicylic Acid
• Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6
• Octyldodeceth-16
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Polyquaternium-51
• Beta-Glucan
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Adenosine
• Tetrahydroxypropyl Ethylenediamine
• Tromethamine
• Alcohol
• Lactococcus Ferment Lysate
• Dextrin
• Fructooligosaccharides
• Glycine
• Arginine
• Sodium Chloride
• Guaiazulene
• Thioctic Acid
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Sucrose Distearate
• Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin

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, 수크로오스다이스테아레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 44 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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