UIQ
UIQ Biome Remedy Perfect Powdery Sun Stick
Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read
Read on 2026-09-09
What is this product?
Buy this if you want sun protection that leaves a genuinely matte, blurred surface and you have oil to control. It is an 18g dial up stick with Methyl Methacrylate Crosspolymer at position 1 and Silica at 8, three organic filters behind them, and a short 27 entry list with no fragrance, no alcohol and no acid. Skip it if your skin is dry: water sits at position 22 and there is no glycerin or hyaluronic acid in the list at all. Treat the biome branding as a name rather than a feature, since the ferment filtrate behind it is declared at 10 ppm. The grade in the product name is not printed on any archived surface for this product, which was checked directly.
What makes it different?
A short list built for a dry finish: 27 entries with powder at the top and water near the bottom, plus a microbiome ferment filtrate carried at a disclosed 10 ppm, which is a rare thing for a brand to print at all.
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 ingredient
- Methyl Methacrylate Crosspolymer
- Caprylyl Methicone
- Dibutyl Adipate
- Isopropyl Palmitate
- Synthetic Wax
- Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
- Butyloctyl Salicylate
- Silica
- Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate
- Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine
- 카프릴릴트라이메티콘
- Ethylhexyl Triazone
- Microcrystalline Wax
- Polysilicone-15
- Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer
- Ethylhexyl Palmitate
- Vinyl Dimethicone
- Camellia Japonica Seed Oil
- Cutibacterium Granulosum Ferment Extract Filtrate
- 비스-베헤닐/아이소스테아릴/피토스테릴다이머다이리놀레일다이머이리놀리에이트
- 폴리글리세릴-다이아이소스테아레이트/폴리하이드록시스테아레이트/세바케이트
- Water
- Tocopherol
- 1,2-Hexanediol
- Ethylhexylglycerin
- Panthenol
- Succinic 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: Camellia Japonica Seed Oil, Isopropyl Palmitate, Synthetic Wax, Microcrystalline Wax
Did the ad claims hold up?
We checked 2 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 of them look likely, though none are proven outright.
Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.
likely, not proven2
- #PoreCover #PowderySunStick
Korean original
#모공커버 #보송선스틱
- Passed functional cosmetics review (or reporting) under the Cosmetics Act.
Korean original
화장품법에 따른 기능성 화장품 심사(또는 보고)를 필함
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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