YBK Relief Hydration Light Sunscreen

What is this product?

A 50 ml organic filter sunscreen from the Korean brand YBK, graded SPF50+ and PA++++, built for skin that wants sun protection without a white layer. Forty eight printed ingredients with four organic UV filters at positions 4, 6, 7 and 10 and no mineral filter anywhere, which is what removes the cast. Behind the filters sits a long barrier and soothing tail: five ceramides plus cholesterol, six centella derived actives, tea tree extract, and a patented pairing of lotus leaf and cedar leaf extracts that the brand states at 1 percent, the only level it discloses. That ceramide and centella block is the brand's line signature, shared with its emulsion, rather than something particular to this sunscreen. No fragrance entry, no essential oil, no colourant and no drying alcohol. The brand publishes two irritation assessments with their institutions, windows and subject counts, and an in vitro blue light reading of about 25 percent, which sits awkwardly under its own headline promising complete blocking. Suits oily, dehydrated or reactive skin wanting a light daily sunscreen; no water resistance grade is stated anywhere.

What makes it different?

A barrier lipid set carried into a sunscreen base: five ceramides at 17 to 21 with cholesterol, where the comparable sunscreen record compared here carries none. The ceramide and centella block is the brand's own line signature rather than this product's invention, since its emulsion sibling held here lists the same five ceramides and the same four centella isolates; what is particular to this record is that the block sits under four organic UV filters. The one disclosed level anywhere is the 1 percent the brand states for its patented lotus leaf and cedar leaf pairing.

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

• Water
• Dibutyl Adipate
• Propanediol
• Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate
• Polymethylsilsesquioxane
• Ethylhexyl Triazone
• Methylene Bis-Benzotriazolyl Tetramethylbutylphenol
• Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
• Caprylyl Methicone
• Diethylhexyl Butamido Triazone
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Glycerin
• Butylene Glycol
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Cryptomeria Japonica Leaf Extract
• Nelumbo Nucifera Leaf Extract
• Ceramide NP
• Ceramide AS
• Ceramide AP
• Ceramide NS
• Ceramide EOP
• Madecassoside
• Madecassic Acid
• Asiaticoside
• Asiatic Acid
• Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Extract
• Centella Asiatica Root Extract
• Centella Asiatica Leaf Extract
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Pentylene Glycol
• Behenyl Alcohol
• Poly C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Decyl Glucoside
• Tromethamine
• Carbomer
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate
• Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Xanthan Gum
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate
• t-Butyl Alcohol
• Cholesterol
• Tocopherol
• Saccharomyces Ferment

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: 코코-카프릴레이트/카프레이트, 하이드로제네이티드레시틴, 폴리글리세릴-3메틸글루코오스다이스테아레이트, 소듐스테아로일글루타메이트, 글리세릴스테아레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 16 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 of them hold 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

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