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SOME BY MI Retinol Intense Reactivating Mask 22g (5 Sheets)
What the ingredients say
Read from the label order, stated amounts and each ingredient’s clinical evidence
Niacinamide, with clinical evidence for dark spots·oiliness, is in at the MFDS notified amount for brightening (2–5%).
Retinol, which the product is named after, is present at only 0.000001%.
- fragrance
MFDS functional cosmetic filing
Filed with Korea's MFDS as a brightening·wrinkle care functional cosmetic (2022-09). Its efficacy ingredient and amount are those the MFDS notice names.
Best-supported ingredient per concern
- Dark spotsNiacinamideevidence BMFDS brightening amount
- OilinessNiacinamideevidence B-MFDS brightening amount
- Skin barrierNiacinamideevidence B-MFDS brightening amount
- BlemishesNiacinamideevidence B-MFDS brightening amount
- DrynessGlycerinevidence B+likely enough
- PoresNiacinamideevidence CMFDS brightening amount
Evidence-graded ingredients and how much is in
Filed with Korea's MFDS as a brightening functional cosmetic, so it holds the notified amount (2–5%).
Dark spots B · Oiliness B- · Skin barrier B- · Blemishes B- · Pores C · Lines C
No amount is stated. Judging by products that state an evidence-graded ingredient at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 68%.
Dryness B+ · Skin barrier B
No amount is stated. Judging by 121 products that state it at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 41%.
Dryness B · Lines D
No amount is stated. Judging by 7 products that state it at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 50%.
Lines B-
No amount is stated. Judging by products that state an evidence-graded ingredient at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 37%.
Dryness C
10 more evidence-graded ingredients
No amount is stated. Judging by 26 products that state it at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 16%.
Lines B · Dark spots B- · Blemishes C · Firmness C
No amount is stated. Judging by 85 products that state it at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 11%.
Skin barrier B+ · Dryness C
No amount is stated, and studies name no single amount. It sits after the 1% line (usually 1% or less).
Skin barrier B · Dryness B
No amount is stated. Judging by 16 products that state it at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 6%.
Lines B- · Dark spots B-
No amount is stated. Judging by products that state an evidence-graded ingredient at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 5%.
Dryness C
No amount is stated. Judging by 148 products that state it at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 3%.
Skin barrier C · Lines D
No amount is stated. Judging by 80 products that state it at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 0%.
Lines D
No amount is stated. Judging by 140 products that state it at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 0%.
Dryness B · Lines D
The label states 0.000001% — under a hundredth of what studies used (0.1–1%).
Lines A · Dark spots B+ · Firmness C · Blemishes D · Pores D
No amount is stated. Judging by 133 products that state it at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 0%.
Skin barrier C
Amounts on the label
- Retinolin the name0.000001%trace (under 0.1%)
Korean law requires a product to state the amount of any ingredient in its name.
How this was read
Labels list ingredients above 1% from most to least, then those at 1% or less in any order. A product filed with Korea's MFDS as functional is read as holding the notified amount of its efficacy ingredient when the label carries only one for that effect, and anything listed before an ingredient of known amount as holding at least that much. Amounts in the product name or official description are used only where the label order allows them. Where no amount is stated, the chance of reaching the study amount comes from other products that state the same ingredient at the same place on their labels. Evidence grades were set by reading each ingredient's studies.
- A
- several randomised trials or a meta-analysis
- B
- one or two randomised trials
- C
- uncontrolled or multi-ingredient studies
- D
- lab work or a record only
A reading of ingredient evidence and the label, not a guarantee that this product works.
Ingredients
Full ingredient list as published on the official product page, in descending order of content.
All 62 ingredients at a glance
Colours follow each ingredient’s use (CosIng functions); the bar counts names. Not amounts, not a safety score.
Aqua, Dipropylene Glycol, Hydrogenated Polydecene, Niacinamide, Dicaprylyl Ether, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Extract, Centella Asiatica Root Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract, Artemisia Capillaris Extract, Olea Europaea Fruit OIL, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Beta-Glucan, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Glycerin, Estimated 1% or less from hereXanthan GUM, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Trehalose, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Tromethamine, Adenosine, Disodium Edta, Betaine, Squalane, Tocopherol, Butylene Glycol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Dimethylsilanol Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Glucose, Glutathione, Panthenol, Potassium Hyaluronate, Hyaluronic Acid, Saccharomyces Ferment, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate, Sodium Hyaluronate Dimethylsilanol, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Glyceryl Polymethacrylate, Retinol10 ppb, Retinal, Madecassoside, Bakuchiol, Asiaticoside, Dextrin, Madecassic Acid, BHA, BHT, Ceramide NP, Sucrose Distearate, Asiatic Acid, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Propylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Polysorbate 20, Parfum, Hydroxyacetophenone, Ethylhexylglycerin
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