TOCOBO Vita Glazed Lip Mask

What is this product?

A 20ml overnight lip mask from TOCOBO, sold as an anhydrous balm in a jar with a spatula and instructed to be applied thickly at bedtime and washed off in the morning. The first ten of its 29 printed entries are all oil phase, led by hydrogenated polyisobutene, dimer dilinoleate esters and microcrystalline wax, with 정제수 only at position 24, so it works by occlusion rather than absorption. Three levels are disclosed on the package itself: olive oil at 30,000ppm, a raspberry seed oil and vitamin E complex at 100ppm and a pomegranate flower extract at 100ppm. It carries EVE VEGAN certification and a primary irritation test reporting an index of 0.00 at 코어덤피부과학연구소 over 2023-05-30 to 2023-06-02, with panel size not stated. The statutory table records no functional-cosmetic notification, so it offers no sun protection. 향료 is declared with no allergen breakdown.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it from the lip treatments it sits beside on the surfaces read. It prints three ingredient levels on the container lid itself rather than only in marketing copy, including olive oil at 3 percent, which lets a reader size the claims instead of taking them. And its safety evidence is documented down to specifics rather than left as a badge: a third-party vegan certification mark plus a primary irritation test with a named institute, exact dates and a numerical index, missing only the panel size. The weakness on the same axis is the exfoliation story, where the single acid sits at position 27 of 29 with no level disclosed in a formula that has almost no water for it to work in.

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, except 3 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Hydrogenated Polyisobutene
• Phytosteryl/Isostearyl/Cetyl/Stearyl/Behenyl Dimer Dilinoleate
• Diisostearyl Malate
• Polyglyceryl-2 Triisostearate
• Microcrystalline Wax
• Hydrogenated Poly(C6-14 Olefin)
• 비스-베헤닐/아이소스테아릴/피토스테릴다이머다이리놀레일다이머다이리놀리에이트
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• Polyethylene
• Ethylene/Propylene/Styrene Copolymer
• Eclipta Prostrata Extract
• Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract
• 석류나무꽃추출물
• Hippophae Rhamnoides Fruit Oil
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• 라즈베리씨오일/토코페릴석시네이트아미노프로판다이올에스터
• Silica Dimethyl Silylate
• Sorbitan Sesquioleate
• Tocopheryl Acetate
• Butylene/Ethylene/Styrene Copolymer
• Dimethicone
• Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil
• Pentaerythrityl Tetra-di-t-butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate
• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Lactobionic Acid
• Fragrance
• Dehydroacetic Acid

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: 올리브오일, 호호바씨오일, 비타민나무열매오일, 드럼스틱씨오일, 라즈베리씨오일/토코페릴석시네이트아미노프로판다이올에스터, 다이아이소스테아릴말레이트, 폴리글리세릴-2트라이아이소스테아레이트, 솔비탄세스퀴올리에이트, 피토스테릴/이소스테아릴/세틸/스테아릴/베헤닐다이머디리놀리에이트, 비스-베헤닐/아이소스테아릴/피토스테릴다이머다이리놀레일다이머다이리놀리에이트, 마이크로크리스탈린왁스

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 36 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 10 of them hold up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

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.

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