FOREST SEOUL
FOREST SEOUL Vegan Multi Defense Sun Stick
Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read
Read on 2026-09-21
What is this product?
A vegan-format sun stick built on three modern organic UV filters with a forest-themed plant extract blend, best suited to users who want easy reapplication and are comfortable with added fragrance. Fragrance-sensitive or fungal-acne-prone users have reason to pause.
What makes it different?
The UV filter trio (items 10, 13, 16) relies on newer-generation organic filters, and the stick base is silicone and ester driven with no drying alcohol. A Korean forest botanical blend (items 18, 19, 20, 21) sits in the later half of the list, well behind the filters and base materials. Fragrance is the final ingredient (29), and tocopherol plus bisabolol add mild soothing and antioxidant support.
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 ingredientWorth a closer look
- Methyl Methacrylate Crosspolymer
- Polyethylene
- Caprylyl Methicone
- Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
- Ethylhexyl Palmitate
- Isopropyl Palmitate
- Dicaprylyl Carbonate
- Synthetic Fluorphlogopite
- Dibutyl Adipate
- Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate
- Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer
- Tocopheryl Acetate
- Ethylhexyl Triazone
- Ozokerite
- Vinyl Dimethicone
- Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine
- (-)-alpha-bisabolol
- Chamaecyparis Obtusa Water
- 잣나무씨추출물
- Camellia Japonica Flower Extract
- Pinus Densiflora Leaf Extract
- Polyglyceryl-4 Diisostearate/Polyhydroxystearate/Sebacate
- Water
- Glyceryl Caprylate
- Triethoxycaprylylsilane
- 1,2-Hexanediol
- Butylene Glycol
- Tocopherol
- Fragrance
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: 에틸헥실팔미테이트, 아이소프로필팔미테이트, 코코-카프릴레이트/카프레이트, 다이카프릴릴카보네이트, 다이부틸아디페이트, 폴리에틸렌, 오조케라이트