Luvum Calming Repair Cica Gel Mask

What is this product?

A soothing gel sheet mask from Korean brand Luvum, sold in boxes of five 33 g sheets and worn about 40 minutes by the label, with 30 minute, 2 hour and overnight options on the brand page. The 53-entry list is a water gel thickened with carob gum and Irish moss, with centella extract at 15, centella triterpenoids, dipotassium glycyrrhizate, allantoin, panthenol, a ceramide trio and corn mint, eucalyptus and lemongrass extracts. Fragrance is the last entry. No exfoliating acid; the two acid-named entries are centella triterpenoid acids. Not a filed functional cosmetic. The brand's fourfold young-centella claim is a raw-material statement, and two of its three test percentages do not follow from the printed values.

What makes it different?

A cooling centella gel sheet built on carob gum and Irish moss with a ceramide, phytosterol and cholesterol trio, sold for irritated skin, with the label's 40 minute wear and the brand's own overnight option; fragranced, with aromatic plant extracts.

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
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob) Gum
• Chondrus Crispus Powder
• Chondrus Crispus Extract
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Betaine
• Panthenol
• Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
• Butylene Glycol
• Paeonia Suffruticosa Root Extract
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Potassium Chloride
• Sodium Polyacrylate
• Cellulose Gum
• Polysorbate 60
• Hydrogenated Polydecene
• Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract
• Glyceryl Caprylate
• Sucrose
• Xylitylglucoside
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Anhydroxylitol
• Gardenia Florida Fruit Extract
• Xylitol
• Trideceth-6
• Dextrin
• Glucose
• Pantolactone
• Mentha Arvensis Extract
• Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Extract
• Cymbopogon Citratus Extract
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract
• Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Erythritol
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Ceramide NP
• Brassica Campestris (Rapeseed) Sterols
• Cholesterol
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Madecassoside
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Allantoin
• Asiaticoside
• Madecassic Acid
• Asiatic Acid
• Disodium EDTA
• PEG-100 Stearate
• 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: 세틸에틸헥사노에이트, 글리세릴스테아레이트, 폴리솔베이트60, 마카다미아씨오일, 폴리글리세릴-3메틸글루코오스다이스테아레이트, 피이지-100스테아레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 20 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 of them look 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