Torriden Cellmazing Low Molecular Collagen Volume Lip Essence

What is this product?

Torriden Cellmazing Low Molecular Collagen Volume Lip Essence is an 11ml lip treatment that is, by its own ingredient list, an occlusive lip balm sold as a collagen volumiser. Water sits 30th of its 32 ingredients, so the product is essentially anhydrous: polyisobutene, diisostearyl malate and dibutyl adipate lead it, with jojoba fourth, olive oil fifth and petrolatum sixth, structured by two waxes. The marketed actives are all really there, five collagen entries at 17 to 21, two peptides at 22 and 23 and pink vitamin B12 at 24, but the only concentration printed on the whole label is 20ppb of hydrolysed collagen, which is 0.000002 percent. Topical collagen works as a surface humectant and does not restore structural volume, so treat the volume promise as marketing and the moisture performance as the real product. A functional-cosmetic filing exists for this SKU, though the record does not say for which function. A domestic review aggregate leans toward moisture and a non-tacky feel. No fragrance material is declared; the collagen block is animal-derived.

What makes it different?

The separating feature is the gap between the base and the billing. This is an anhydrous hydrocarbon and wax balm, water 30th of 32, and it prints exactly one concentration on the whole label: 20ppb of hydrolysed collagen, which is 0.000002 percent, against a marketing story built on collagen volume. Five collagen forms in consecutive positions 17 to 21 is unusual as a listing and is very likely what the brand coinage 5D counts, though the brand publishes no definition. No fragrance material is declared, which is worth more on a product that is partly ingested than it is elsewhere. The last differentiator is positional and comes from the brand's own launch statement: it is the volume and elasticity entry in a lip line whose established seller is pitched on moisture retention.

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

• Polyisobutene
• Diisostearyl Malate
• Dibutyl Adipate
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• Petrolatum
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Microcrystalline Wax
• Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
• Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil
• Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax
• Adenosine
• Glycerin
• Sorbitan Sesquioleate
• Pentylene Glycol
• Tocopheryl Acetate
• Collagen
• Collagen Amino Acids
• Collagen Extract
• Soluble Collagen
• Hydrolyzed Collagen
• Hexapeptide-2
• Acetyl Hexapeptide-8
• Cyanocobalamin
• Lithospermum Erythrorhizon Root Extract
• Niacinamide
• Hizikia Fusiforme Extract
• Butylene Glycol
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Water
• Biotin
• 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.

We could not place these in the list above: Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Macadamia Integrifolia Seed Oil, Diisostearyl Malate, Sorbitan Sesquioleate

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 4 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

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