JUVELOOK PDLLA Protecting Cream

What is this product?

Juvelook's PDLLA Protecting Cream prints its own amounts, which is rare and which is also the reason to be sceptical of its name: polylactic acid at 10,000 ppb is 0.001 percent, and the two collagens are at 1 ppb and 0.01 ppb. Buy it as a well-built antioxidant cream instead, because astaxanthin, resveratrol, quercetin and epigallocatechin gallate are all in the list, and skip the collagen story.

What makes it different?

The antioxidant set is the genuine feature and it is not what the name sells: epigallocatechin gallate, resveratrol, astaxanthin and quercetin appear as four separate entries, which is a broader polyphenol panel than creams at this size usually carry. Thirteen peptide-family entries close out the list, including copper tripeptide-1 and carnosine. Printing three concentrations on the panel is uncommon honesty even though the numbers undercut the branding. No 향료 entry and no drying alcohol appear among its 48 ingredients.

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
• Glycerin
• Propanediol
• Panthenol
• Pentylene Glycol
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Niacinamide
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Trimethyl Pentaphenyl Trisiloxane
• Cetearyl Olivate
• Hydrolyzed Collagen
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Haematococcus Pluvialis Oil
• Candida Bombicola/Glucose/Methyl Rapeseedate Ferment
• Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil
• Atelocollagen
• Dimethicone
• Sorbitan Olivate
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Tromethamine
• Palmitic Acid
• Stearic Acid
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Adenosine
• Polylactic Acid
• Tocopherol
• Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
• Epigallocatechin Gallate
• Resveratrol
• Butylene Glycol
• Astaxanthin
• Quercetin
• Acetyl Hexapeptide-8
• Ascorbic Acid Polypeptide
• Acetyl Octapeptide-3
• Acetyl Tetrapeptide-2
• Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3
• Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5
• Acetyl Tetrapeptide-9
• Carnosine
• Copper Tripeptide-1
• Nonapeptide-1
• Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5
• Carbomer
• Xanthan Gum

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: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Glyceryl Stearate, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Palmitic Acid, Stearic Acid, Haematococcus Pluvialis Oil

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 2 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

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• Does collagen in skincare do anything?Collagen on a Korean label runs from nineteen percent down to a hundredth of a part per billion. The size of the molecule matters more than either number.