FROMNATURE AGE INTENSE TREATMENT ESSENCE

What is this product?

A 150 ml watery first essence from the Korean brand FROMNATURE, built on a galactomyces ferment filtrate that the brand states is 95.7 percent of the formula and that displaces water to third place on a thirteen entry list. Niacinamide sits at 2 and adenosine at 4, the two actives Korea's wrinkle and whitening categories are built on, and the bottle carries both words in English. Sodium hyaluronate and butylene glycol are the only other water binders, and there is no oil, wax, silicone, fragrance, essential oil or drying alcohol anywhere on the list. The brand publishes a four week test on 21 women aged 34 to 59 at a named dermatology institute with radiance, tone and pore figures, plus a primary irritation report naming this product with a zero index. Suited to oily or combination skin wanting a light hydrating first step; dry skin needs something occlusive over it.

What makes it different?

The composition is the differentiator and it is checkable: water is not the first ingredient and not the second, and a single fermentation filtrate is stated to carry almost the whole formula. The second is disclosure habit around testing. The brand prints the institute, the date window, the age band and the subject count for its human study, and names this exact product as the sample in its irritation report, which is more detail than a test badge alone carries. The same page then prints two different values for one of its own measurements.

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 2 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Galactomyces Ferment Filtrate
• Niacinamide
• Water
• Adenosine
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Butylene Glycol
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• 미국나팔꽃씨추출물
• Paeonia Albiflora Flower Extract
• 효모/구릿대뿌리발효추출물
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Phenoxyethanol
• Chlorphenesin

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 33 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