innisfree Green Tea Seed Hyaluronic Acid Cream

What is this product?

Buy innisfree's Green Tea Seed Hyaluronic Acid Cream for the green tea seed oil, not for the hyaluronic acid, and the label proves why. The oil is printed eleventh of 63 ingredients at 10001 ppm, about one percent, while the five hyaluronate forms disclose 10.5, 0.5, 0.05, 0.02 and 0.001 ppm, adding up to roughly 0.0011 percent. Printing those numbers at all is unusually open. Note that five essential oils and the declared allergens 리모넨, 시트랄 and 리날룰 are in the list, so this is not a pick for reactive skin.

What makes it different?

Almost nothing in this category prints parts per million for its headline actives, and innisfree prints them for eight ingredients, which lets a reader do arithmetic the marketing would rather they skipped. The barrier side is better built than the hyaluronate side: ceramide NP, phytosphingosine, cholesterol and a lecithin pair sit in the tail, which is the lipid trio a barrier cream actually needs. Squalane and green tea seed oil carry the emollience, so it finishes lighter than the ingredient count suggests. 락틱애씨드 is printed thirty eighth with no amount given, low in the order and most likely there to set pH rather than to exfoliate, and it is the only exfoliating acid in the formula.

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
• Glycerin
• Methyl Trimethicone
• Stearyl Dimethicone
• Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate
• Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate
• Glyceryl Polymethacrylate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Polymethylsilsesquioxane
• Camellia Sinensis Seed Oil
• Squalane
• Dicaprylyl Ether
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Dimethicone
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Carbomer
• Triethyl Citrate
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Cholesterol
• Limonene
• Tromethamine
• Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate
• Glyceryl Caprylate
• Xanthan Gum
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate
• Butylene Glycol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Panthenol
• Citrus Limon (Lemon) Peel Oil
• Sorbitan Isostearate
• Allantoin
• Sodium Metaphosphate
• Ilex Paraguariensis Leaf Extract
• Madecassoside
• Lactic Acid
• Citral
• Dextrin
• Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Extract
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• Elettaria Cardamomum Seed Oil
• Mentha Viridis (Spearmint) Leaf Oil
• Linalool
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Cymbopogon Nardus (Citronella) Oil
• Ferula Galbaniflua (Galbanum) Resin Oil
• Camellia Sinensis Seed Extract
• Tocopherol
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Ceramide NP
• Propylene Glycol
• Phytosphingosine
• Glyceryl Oleate
• Lecithin
• Lauryl Glucoside
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Polyglyceryl-6 Laurate
• Myristyl Glucoside
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Sodium Trimetaphosphate
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate

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: Citrus Limon (Lemon) Peel Oil, Mentha Viridis (Spearmint) Leaf Oil, Cymbopogon Nardus (Citronella) Oil, Ferula Galbaniflua (Galbanum) Resin Oil, Elettaria Cardamomum Seed Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Sorbitan Isostearate, Glyceryl Oleate, Lecithin, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Polyglyceryl-6 Laurate, Glyceryl Caprylate, Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate, Camellia Sinensis Seed Oil

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked the one line this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.

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