Mediheal Madecassoside Wrapping Serum Mask

What is this product?

A 25 ml per sheet, 10 sheet Korean mask built around madecassoside and marketed for post-blemish marks. Two things set it apart from its neighbours. Its essence is unusually oil loaded for the format, with four seed and kernel oils and three polyglyceryl esters between positions 12 and 22 of 49, which makes it a comfort wear rather than a light one. And its regulatory filing is for tone, named as 미백 on the brand's own page, with niacinamide fourth on the list, while the product name sells mark repair. Reasons to skip it: four aromatic essential oils including mugwort make it a poor pick for fragrance reactive skin, no concentration is printed anywhere on the mask's own page, and no cited test appears on any surface held here.

What makes it different?

An oil block sitting in the upper middle of a sheet mask essence rather than at its tail, which changes the wear from light to occlusive, and a 미백 filing on a product whose name sells mark repair.

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
• Butylene Glycol
• Niacinamide
• Propanediol
• Dipropylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Glycereth-26
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Carbomer
• Arginine
• Canola Oil
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• Disodium EDTA
• Polyglyceryl-4 Laurate
• Xanthan Gum
• Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil
• Madecassoside
• Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate
• Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil
• Juniperus Virginiana Oil
• Pyrus Communis (Pear) Fruit Extract
• Pantolactone
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Rosa Damascena Flower Water
• Pogostemon Cablin Oil
• Glyceryl Glucoside
• Centella Asiatica Leaf Extract
• Chondrus Crispus Extract
• Iris Florentina Root Extract
• Cucumis Melo (Melon) Fruit Extract
• Artemisia Vulgaris Oil
• Hedera Helix (Ivy) Leaf/Stem Extract
• Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Oil
• Tremella Fuciformis Polysaccharide
• Bambusa Vulgaris Leaf Extract
• Linum Usitatissimum (Linseed) Seed Extract
• Cyperus Rotundus Root Extract
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Panthenol
• Pantothenic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Hydrangea Macrophylla Leaf Extract
• Asiatic Acid
• Asiaticoside
• Madecassic Acid

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: Juniperus Virginiana Oil, Pogostemon Cablin Oil, Artemisia Vulgaris Oil, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Oil, Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate, Polyglyceryl-4 Laurate, Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Canola Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 5 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.

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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