S.NATURE Aqua Rice Cleansing Oil

What is this product?

S.NATURE's Aqua Rice Cleansing Oil is a fragrance-free 200ml first cleanse that quietly carries an exfoliating acid, and that is the call to make about it: capryloyl salicylic acid sits among its fifteen ingredients at an amount S.NATURE does not disclose, so pause here if your skin reacts to salicylates or you are managing fungal acne. The rest is straightforward, two light esters and a self-emulsifying oleate ester in second position, ahead of sunflower and rice bran oil, a soy milk and a rice fermentation filtrate, with no named essential oil anywhere.

What makes it different?

Two things stand out, and both are about evidence rather than formula. First, the only marketing copy S.NATURE puts out for it is a single atmospheric line that never surfaces on the page you actually read, and it makes no testable claim, so there is barely a brand promise to weigh. Second, the ingredient list you can read comes from a Korean third-party database, while S.NATURE's own official pages carry no full ingredient list in readable text anywhere.

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.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Cetyl Ethyl Hexanoate
• Sorbeth-30 Tetraoleate
• Caprylic/ Capric Triglyceride
• Sunflower Seed Oil
• Rice Bran Oil
• Lactobacillus/ Soy Milk Fermentation Filtrate
• Capryloyl Salicylic Acid
• Yeast/ Rice Fermentation Filtrate
• Soap Grass Leaf Extract
• Tocopherol
• Butylene Glycol
• Pentylene Glycol
• Purified Water
• Caprylyl Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol

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 the one line this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up. There is 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

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

• S.NATURE Aqua Rice Cleansing MilkAnother product in the same category
• S.NATURE Aqua Rice Mildly Acidic Cleansing FoamAnother product in the same category
• S.NATURE Aqua Rice Lip and Eye RemoverAnother product in the same category

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

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