NDP Vitamin B9 Tone-up Whitening Cream

What is this product?

NDP's Vitamin B9 Tone-up Whitening Cream is registered in Korea as a functional cosmetic and names its headline ingredient accurately: folic acid (vitamin B9) is disclosed at 100ppm, matching the product's own name. Niacinamide, a centella-derived soothing active and dipotassium glycyrrhizate round out the formula, all at undisclosed concentrations, and reading the 55 printed entries through, no silicone, siloxane or dimethicone token appears, though 트라이에톡시카프릴릴실레인 at 36 is a silane pigment coating and worth knowing about if that is the family you avoid. Take the brand's press-quoted claims with a grain of salt: an '2025 brand of the year' award, a 'high concentration' soothing-active claim and a sub-1-percent return rate all come from a single news article quoting the brand, not from the brand's own official page, and none of them is independently checkable from what was archived.

What makes it different?

The folic acid figure (100ppm) is the only concentration disclosed anywhere in the formula, so the 'vitamin B9' name in the product is the one number-backed claim here; everything else, including the soothing-active pairing, has no disclosed amount. No fragrance ingredient and no exfoliating acid appear anywhere in the 55-item 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, except 1 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Propanediol
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Butylene Glycol
• Titanium Dioxide
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Niacinamide
• Polycitronellol Acetate
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Hydrogenated Polyisobutene
• Polyglyceryl-6 Stearate
• Hydrogenated Polydecene
• Hydrogenated Poly(C6-14 Olefin)
• Paeonia Albiflora Flower Extract
• 메타카소사이드
• Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Butter
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• Bambusa Vulgaris Leaf Extract
• Allantoin
• Folic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Bacillus/Soybean Ferment Extract
• Glutamic Acid
• Glycine
• Candida Bombicola/Glucose/Methyl Rapeseedate Ferment
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Sorbitan Oleate
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Arginine
• Carbomer
• Polyglyceryl-6 Behenate
• Polyacrylate-13
• Tocopheryl Acetate
• Aluminum Hydroxide
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Triethoxycaprylylsilane
• Sorbitan Isostearate
• Disodium EDTA
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Ethylhexyl Palmitate
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Histidine
• Proline
• Phenylalanine
• Threonine
• Tyrosine
• Alanine
• Isoleucine
• Aspartic Acid
• Cysteine
• Serine
• Valine
• Methionine
• Leucine
• Lysine

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: Mango Seed Butter, Olive Oil, Glyceryl Stearate

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 4 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them looks 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

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• The thing that tones up a tone up sunscreen is a pigmentSeven Korean labels put tone up in the name. All seven carry titanium dioxide, none of the 44 labels holding it print how much, and that is the whole effect.