innisfree Aloe Revitalizing Soothing Gel

What is this product?

A 300 ml water gel from the brand's aloe line whose statutory ingredient field prints just 11 entries. The build is water, 부틸렌글라이콜, a carbomer type gelling polymer with its neutraliser, a conventional preservative pair, a second thickener and a chelator, plus three entries that carry the product's argument: 알로에베라잎추출물 at position 6 with 990ppm printed beside it, 멘톡시프로판다이올 at 10 which is a cooling agent, and 마데카소사이드 at 11. There is no oil, no wax, no silicone, no emulsifier, no fragrance entry, no essential oil and no denatured alcohol at any position. The 990ppm is the one disclosed level in the list and it is printed on the statutory block itself, which is checkable. The brand's own copy, however, attributes that same figure to a Jeju inner leaf extract name that has no entry in the list, and it asserts a vegan certification with no certifying body or number named.

What makes it different?

An 11 entry list is short enough to read whole, and the reading turns on two things. One is a printed level: 990ppm against 알로에베라잎추출물, which makes the headline number checkable rather than asserted, and it works out to 0.099 percent, printed on the statutory block itself. The other is a name that does not appear: the Jeju inner leaf extract the brand leads with in almost every line has no entry of its own, and one answer on the page even moves the 990ppm figure onto that name. Structurally this is a cooling water gel rather than a moisturiser, since 멘톡시프로판다이올 is a functional cooling material and nothing oily, waxy or filmforming beyond the two gelling polymers is printed anywhere in the list.

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

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Phenoxyethanol
• Tromethamine
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract
• Sodium Polyacrylate
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Disodium EDTA
• Menthoxypropanediol
• Madecassoside

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 13 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 of them look likely, though none are proven outright.

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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