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THE SAEM Snail Essential EX Wrinkle Solution Eye Cream
What the ingredients say
Read from the label order, stated amounts and each ingredient’s clinical evidence
Panthenol, with clinical evidence for skin barrier, is in at 2% or more (listed before an ingredient whose amount is known).
Niacinamide, with clinical evidence for dark spots, is in at the MFDS notified amount for brightening (2–5%).
- fragrance
- alcohol near the top
MFDS functional cosmetic filing
Filed with Korea's MFDS as a brightening·wrinkle care functional cosmetic (2015-01). Its efficacy ingredient and amount are those the MFDS notice names.
Best-supported ingredient per concern
- Skin barrierPanthenolevidence B+at least 2% · study amount
- Dark spotsNiacinamideevidence BMFDS brightening amount
- OilinessNiacinamideevidence B-MFDS brightening amount
- BlemishesNiacinamideevidence B-MFDS brightening amount
- LinesAdenosineevidence B-MFDS wrinkle care amount
- DrynessGlycerinevidence B+likely enough
Evidence-graded ingredients and how much is in
Listed before an ingredient whose amount is known, so it holds at least 2% — at or above what studies used (1–5%).
Skin barrier B+ · Dryness C
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
Filed with Korea's MFDS as a wrinkle care functional cosmetic, so it holds the notified amount (0.04%).
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 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
4 more evidence-graded ingredients
No amount is stated, and studies name no single amount. It sits before the 1% line.
Dryness C · Skin barrier D
No amount is stated, and studies name no single amount. It sits before the 1% line.
Lines D
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 80 products that state it at this place on the label, the chance it reaches the amount studies used is about 0%.
Lines D
Amounts on the label
- Snail Secretion Filtrate0.55%small (under 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 60 ingredients at a glance
Colours follow each ingredient’s use (CosIng functions); the bar counts names. Not amounts, not a safety score.
Aqua, Propanediol, Glycerin, Hydrogenated POLY(C6-14 OLEFIN), Methyl Trimethicone, Behenyl Alcohol, Panthenol, Triolein, 1,2-Hexanediol, Niacinamide, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Undecane, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Cetearyl Olivate, Dipentaerythrityl Hexahydroxystearate/Hexastearate/Hexarosinate, Snail Secretion Filtrate5,499ppm, Soluble Collagen, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Ficus Carica (Fig) Fruit Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract, Theobroma Cacao Seed Extract, Phellodendron Amurense Bark Extract, Royal Jelly Extract, Glycine Soja Seed Extract, MEL Powder, Propolis Cera, Tuber Magnatum Extract, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Helianthus Annuus Seed OIL, Sorbitan Olivate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Dioleate, Tridecane, Palmitic Acid, Stearic Acid, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Butylene Glycol, Polyglyceryl-10 Myristate, Cetearyl Glucoside, Alcohol, Cholesterol, Estimated 1% or less from hereXanthan GUM, Adenosine, Ceramide NP, Myristic Acid, Dextrin, Glucose, Tocopherol, Arginine, Carbomer, Sorbitan Laurate, Tetrahydropiperine, Phloretin, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Acetyl Dipeptide-1 Cetyl Ester, Parfum, Ethylhexylglycerin, Caprylyl Glycol
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