Wellage Real Hyaluronic Soothing Cream

What is this product?

Wellage's Real Hyaluronic Soothing Cream is an 80ml gel cream aimed at oily and combination skin that is dry underneath, and its headline REAL HA complex is the weakest part of it: six hyaluronic acid forms are on the label, but all six are there in traces measured in ppm down to ppb rather than at any working concentration. It is registered in Korea as a wrinkle-improvement functional cosmetic on niacinamide and adenosine, and the in-use test Wellage cites for more moisture and less oil names no subject count, no institution and no date, so there is nothing to check.

What makes it different?

A named multi-form hyaluronic acid complex, REAL HA, is the headline despite being dosed at trace level. The other oddity is the target: this one goes after oily and combination skin that is dehydrated underneath, where most creams in the line go after dry skin instead.

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.

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Niacinamide
• Hydrogenated Didecene
• Panthenol
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• Trehalose
• Methyl Trimethicone
• Vinyl Dimethicone
• Olive Oil Polyglyceryl-6 Esters
• Arginine
• Carbomer
• Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Allantoin
• Adenosine
• Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate
• Disodium EDTA
• Sodium Polyacrylate
• PVM/MA Copolymer
• Sorbitan Isostearate
• Malachite Extract
• Sodium DNA
• Propanediol
• Tocopherol
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Dimethyl Isosorbide
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Citric Acid
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Sucrose Laurate
• Oleyl Alcohol
• Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate
• Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
• Glycine
• Serine
• Histidine
• Glycine Soja (Soybean) Seed Extract
• Lysolecithin
• Phloretin
• Tetrahydropiperine
• Benzyl Glycol
• Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate

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: 세틸에틸헥사노에이트, 올레일알코올

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 9 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds up. The rest are only partly right or have 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?

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Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• When a label counts its hyaluronic acids, count them yourselfFront labels count them: three, eight, eleven. The list that settles it is printed on the same box, and three of the five counts here are exactly right.
• The four things a percentage on a skincare page has to nameOne cleansing balm here names its testing institution, its dates and its panel size. The other four figures name none of those things.
• Five kinds of number we would not buy blindEvery product here is one we like. Each also carries a printed figure that falls apart when you look for the method behind it, and the patterns repeat.