Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Lotion

What is this product?

A reasonable default daily lotion if you want light hydration with a little real lipid behind it, and one to skip if you track Malassezia-driven breakouts, because macadamia oil sits at position 3 of 27, above the one-percent line. The formula is water and glycerin, that oil, three hyaluronic-acid forms consecutively at 9 to 11, panthenol, squalane, sea water at 8, and no fragrance, no acid and no drying alcohol anywhere in the transcribed list. The weak point is provenance: the name refers to a specific island and nothing in the range checked for this draft states where the sea water comes from. No brand marketing sentence, no pH figure and no functional-cosmetic filing statement were found in that range either. Sold at 400ml and 200ml.

What makes it different?

Three hyaluronic-acid molecular forms run consecutively through the middle of a 27-item list that carries no fragrance, no acid and no drying alcohol, with a small genuine oil phase led by macadamia at position 3. The marine sourcing the name invokes is present as an ingredient and undocumented as an origin.

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 ingredient

• Water
• Glycerin
• Macadamia Integrifolia Seed Oil
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Pentylene Glycol
• Chondrus Crispus Extract
• Saccharum Officinarum (Sugarcane) Extract
• Sea Water
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Panthenol
• Squalane
• Butylene Glycol
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Hydrogenated Polydecene
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Jojoba Esters
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Tromethamine
• Sodium Phytate
• Tocopherol
• Sodium Carboxymethyl Beta-Glucan
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Carbomer

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: Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Jojoba Esters

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 3 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

What else is worth seeing?

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