CELORABY 4GF Derma Repair Hydro Serum

What is this product?

CELORABY's 4GF Derma Repair Hydro Serum is a 30ml Korean serum whose 29-item label backs two of its three name words and leaves the third unevidenced. Four sh- prefixed growth-factor-class entries sit consecutively at positions 9 through 12, which is what 4GF refers to, and 8 forms of hyaluronic acid spread across positions 13 to 21, which is what 하이드로 refers to. Niacinamide at 4 is the highest-placed active and adenosine sits at 22. No concentration is printed for any ingredient, so the brand's own 고농축 claim has no number behind it, and the repair language has no barrier lipid behind it either: no ceramide, no cholesterol and no fatty acid appears anywhere on the list. The Olive Young record confirms a completed functional-cosmetic filing without naming which function it covers. Positions 6 and 7 are an emulsifier and a fatty alcohol, so this is an emulsion rather than the watery drop the name implies. Fragrance-free, alcohol-free, no acids.

What makes it different?

Eight separate hyaluronate-family entries and four separate growth-factor-class entries on one 29-item label, which is unusual breadth in both directions at once, set against zero disclosed concentrations for either group. The four sh- entries are proteins in a molecular weight range an order of magnitude above what intact skin passively admits, and the label discloses no encapsulation or delivery system to address that. The emulsion base, signalled by a self-emulsifying stearate and a fatty alcohol at 6 and 7, separates it from the oil-free hydrogel serums this category is otherwise full of.

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
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• Niacinamide
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Glyceryl Stearate SE
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• sh-Oligopeptide-1
• sh-Polypeptide-1
• sh-Oligopeptide-2
• sh-Polypeptide-19
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
• Potassium Hyaluronate
• Pentylene Glycol
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Adenosine
• Butylene Glycol
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Sodium Phosphate
• Carbomer
• Tromethamine
• Disodium EDTA

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: Glyceryl Stearate SE, Cetearyl Alcohol

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 5 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.

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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