About

K-Beauty Factsheet is an independent personal project based in Korea, run by the same person as The K-Beauty Fact Sheet on Medium. It translates Korean primary sources — MFDS (Ministry of Food and Drug Safety) notices, Olive Young in-store prices, renewal announcements — into structured English fact sheets.

Scope

Inclusion is based on Korean market data, not brand nationality: any product sold through a Korean retailer (Olive Young Korea, Daiso Korea) with a Korea price, Korea-market specification, and Korea legal disclosure qualifies. That includes foreign brands sold in Korea — Nuxe, Neutrogena, Hada Labo, and Bifesta are all on this site. Every fact on this site describes the Korean-market version of a product, whether the brand is Korean or not.

Independence

No brand pays to be included, excluded, or ranked. If any page ever involves compensation, it will be disclosed on that page.

Methodology

Each product page is built from: the product's MFDS functional-cosmetics notice where applicable, the official Korean retail listing, and in-store price checks. For products sold through Daiso Korea, the source is the official Daiso Mall listing (daisomall.co.kr) and its legally required ingredient disclosure, compared against the brand's own listing for the original product. Every page shows the date its facts were last verified. Corrections: [email protected].

How we read ingredient list order

Korea's Cosmetics Act Enforcement Rule, Appendix Table 4 (화장품법 시행규칙 별표 4), requires ingredients to be listed in descending order of concentration, with one exception in the regulation's own words: "다만, 1퍼센트 이하로 사용된 성분, 착향제 또는 착색제는 순서에 상관없이 기재·표시할 수 있다" — ingredients used at 1% or below, plus fragrance and colorants, may be listed in any order (source: 국가법령정보센터, National Law Information Center, checked 2026-09-08). That exception does not require every ingredient placed after a known ≤1% ingredient to itself be ≤1%, and it does not forbid a ≤1% ingredient from appearing earlier in the list. So two different things are true at once: Phenoxyethanol's own 1% cap is guaranteed by a separate MFDS usage-limit notice (law), while "an ingredient placed after Phenoxyethanol is typically ≤1%" is our own inference from common labeling practice, not something the regulation itself guarantees. Pages on this site state that distinction explicitly rather than presenting the inference as a rule.