Laniju Retential Cream

What is this product?

Laniju's Retential Cream is a genuinely loaded 80ml formula: four growth factor peptides including EGF, five ceramides, two barrier fatty acids and a peptide list that runs to the end of its 68 ingredients. The catch is that 에탄올 is printed twelfth, high in the order for a cream sold on barrier care, so skip it if alcohol stings your skin. Laniju's own bullets claim six clinical validations and four patents without publishing a single test detail or patent number, though the EGF it advertises really is on the label.

What makes it different?

The peptide tail is the reason to look at this one: sh-Oligopeptide-1, sh-Oligopeptide-2, sh-Polypeptide-1 and sh-Polypeptide-22 alongside copper tripeptide-1, acetyl hexapeptide-8, palmitoyl pentapeptide-4 and two palmitoyl peptides, which is a denser roster than creams at this size usually carry. Five ceramides back it up, with stearic acid twentieth and palmitic acid thirty-fourth as the fatty acid arm, and a full centella set of madecassoside, asiaticoside, asiatic acid and madecassic acid sits alongside glutathione. All of it is undisclosed by amount and most of it sits in the last third of the list. Ethanol is the one thing to weigh against it, and the formula carries no fragrance or declared fragrance allergen among its 68 ingredients, so it is unscented.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Glycerin
• Propanediol
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Methylpropanediol
• Glycereth-26
• Hydrogenated Polydecene
• Isododecane
• Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate
• Niacinamide
• Alcohol
• Synthetic Beeswax
• Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
• Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil
• Dexpanthenol
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Cetearyl Olivate
• Sorbitan Olivate
• Stearic Acid
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Butylene Glycol
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Polyisobutene
• Adenosine
• Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside
• Sorbitan Isostearate
• Ceramide NP
• Sorbitan Oleate
• Adansonia Digitata Seed Oil
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Palmitic Acid
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Tocopherol
• Ceramide NS
• Ceramide AS
• Ceramide EOP
• Ceramide AP
• Propolis Extract
• Asiaticoside
• Symphytum Officinale Leaf Extract
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Asiatic Acid
• Madecassic Acid
• Madecassoside
• Sodium Chondroitin Sulfate
• Ocimum Basilicum (Basil) Seed Extract
• Salvia Hispanica Seed Extract
• Glutathione
• Tamarindus Indica Seed Extract
• Chenopodium Quinoa Seed Extract
• Plantago Asiatica Seed Extract
• Linum Usitatissimum (Linseed) Seed Extract
• Fucus Vesiculosus Extract
• Prunella Vulgaris Extract
• sh-Oligopeptide-1
• Copper Tripeptide-1
• Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4
• Acetyl Hexapeptide-8
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1
• Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7
• sh-Polypeptide-22
• sh-Polypeptide-1
• sh-Oligopeptide-2

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, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Sorbitan Isostearate, Sorbitan Oleate, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Stearic Acid, Palmitic Acid, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Adansonia Digitata Seed Oil

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 3 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