HYGGEE CLEAN VEGAN SUN STICK

What is this product?

A 20 g solid sun stick sold from the brand's own storefront, with the protection grades SPF50+ and PA++++ printed on the barrel and an institute tested SPF of 57.2 and PA of 18 published on the page. Its ingredient list is published only as a picture, so the 31 entries here were transcribed from that image and marked as a transcription. The formula is anhydrous: a wax, silicone and ester body with three powder phase materials, three organic UV filters at positions 9, 10 and 12, three plant fixed oils, and a soothing trio of calamine, allantoin and madecassoside that the brand names by footnote. There is no fragrance entry, no ethanol, no essential oil, no colourant, no paraben and no exfoliating acid; there is also no mineral filter, no water and no humectant of any kind. The statutory block registers it as a triple function product for UV protection, brightening and wrinkle care, with alpha bisabolol and adenosine present to match two of those. Certification marks on the packaging include a vegan mark and an FSC licence code, though no certificate is published.

What makes it different?

Three things separate it, and one of them is a disclosure habit rather than a formula fact. First, the brand footnotes its own ingredient claims with the exact printed entry names, three separate times, and all eight named entries are on the label at the positions claimed. That makes the headline ingredient stories checkable from the packaging instead of taken on trust, which is rare on a page of this kind. Second, it is registered for three functions rather than one, with brightening and wrinkle actives present alongside the UV filters, and the two entries that would underwrite those extra axes are on the label at 25 and 27. Third, the exclusion profile is complete rather than partial and was verified across all 31 entries: no fragrance, no ethanol, no essential oil, no colourant, no paraben, no acid suffix entry and no mineral filter either. Against that, three things a reader should weigh: the zero irritation index is a badge with no institute or date behind it while the SPF figure on the same page has both, the reef safe claim excludes a class the brand never defines, and this is an anhydrous stick whose own copy twice describes supplying moisture that the list has no route to deliver.

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

• Caprylyl Methicone
• Isopropyl Palmitate
• Methyl Methacrylate Crosspolymer
• Synthetic Wax
• Dibutyl Adipate
• Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
• Silica
• Butyloctyl Salicylate
• Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate
• Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine
• Caprylyl Trimethicone
• Ethylhexyl Triazone
• Microcrystalline Wax
• Polysilicone-15
• Synthetic Fluorphlogopite
• Ethylhexyl Palmitate
• Vinyl Dimethicone
• Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer
• Camellia Japonica Seed Oil
• Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Calamine
• Bis-Behenyl/Isostearyl/Phytosteryl Dimer Dilinoleyl Dimer Dilinoleate
• Polyglyceryl-4 Diisostearate/Polyhydroxystearate/Sebacate
• (-)-alpha-bisabolol
• Butyl Avocadate
• Adenosine
• Tocopherol
• Allantoin
• Madecassoside
• Panthenol

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: 아이소프로필팔미테이트, 코코-카프릴레이트/카프레이트, 에틸헥실팔미테이트, 동백나무씨오일, 스위트아몬드오일, 호호바씨오일, 폴리글리세릴-4다이아이소스테아레이트/폴리하이드록시스테아레이트/세바케이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 21 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 4 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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