ONE THING Jojoba Oil

What is this product?

원씽 호호바오일 is a 50ml single ingredient facial oil: the statutory disclosure declares 호호바씨오일 (100%) and nothing else. Jojoba is a liquid wax ester rather than a triglyceride, so the bottle works as a light sealing layer over damp skin and adds no water of its own; the brand's own directions say to apply it on damp skin or to stir a few drops into a cream. The storefront prints a full statutory block naming a contract manufacturer and the brand as responsible distributor, which is unusual enough to be worth noting, but the process claims the product is named for, organic, unrefined and cold pressed, carry no certificate, number or processing statement, and no pH or test data is published.

What makes it different?

One ingredient at 100 percent with a fully printed statutory block, against a product name built on three process claims that the page does not document 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.

Key ingredient

• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

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.

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?

Products we read alongside this one.

• sidmool COLD PRESS JOJOBA OILAnother product in the same category
• Pure Somme Pure Organic Jojoba OilAnother product in the same category