Where does this cream go in my routine?

As the last skincare step, morning and evening, over serum. Anything thinner than a cream goes on before it, and anything richer goes on after. If you are adding it to a routine you already like, give it a week on its own first, so what you see is the Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract and not three changes at once.

Does this cream contain fragrance?

Yes. The ingredient list names Fragrance. It sits on the panel printed on this page, so you can read the position for yourself before you buy. If fragrance components are something you avoid, this cream is not the one.

What else is on the list besides Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract?

Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Camellia Japonica Leaf Extract and Opuntia Coccinellifera Fruit Extract. The order they are printed in on this cream's panel is the order on the box, so you can see where Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract sits relative to them. Further down the same panel: Citrus Unshiu Peel Extract, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate and Isopropyl Palmitate.

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Apple Seed Cleansing Cream 150ml

Name: innisfree Apple Seed Cleansing Cream 150ml
Brand: innisfree
SKU: 8424402348
Price: 15.0 USD
Availability: InStock

innisfree Apple Seed Cleansing Cream is a 150ml cream with Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract, used as the last skincare step, morning and evening, over serum.

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$15.00

150 ml

$10.00 per 100 ml

Korean-market formula
Ships from California or direct from Korea
Korean barcode and batch code intact

Suited to: NormalDryCombination

Helps with: Everyday moisturizingA sealing final step

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How it works

The Apple Seed Cleansing Cream is a 150ml cream, used as the last skincare step, morning and evening, over serum. The plant extract it is built around is Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract, named ninth on its own ingredient list. The same list carries Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Camellia Japonica Leaf Extract and Opuntia Coccinellifera Fruit Extract, so the plant extract is not the only thing on it worth naming. How much of the Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract stays on the skin, and for how long, is decided by the cream format rather than by the list alone. innisfree sells this Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract cream in Korea, and this is that version.

Key benefits

Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract, the plant extract this cream is built around
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Camellia Japonica Leaf Extract, Opuntia Coccinellifera Fruit Extract and Citrus Unshiu Peel Extract on the same list, plant extracts
Cetyl Ethylhexanoate and Isopropyl Palmitate further down the same list
Pyrus Malus (Apple) Seed Oil and Glycereth-26 further down the same list
Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract named ninth on the manufacturer list printed on this page

Key actives

9Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extractplant extract

Apple fruit extract, carrying malic acid, sugars and polyphenols. It is used as a conditioning extract with a mild acid character. On this cream's own ingredient list it is named ninth.

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11Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extractplant extract

Camellia Sinensis is the tea plant. Green tea leaf extract carries catechins, among the most studied plant antioxidants, and is used for the look of redness and oily shine. It is named eleventh on this cream's list, alongside Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract.

All products with Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract

12Camellia Japonica Leaf Extractplant extract

The leaf extract of the Korean camellia, the same plant as the seed oil pressed on Jeju. It is used as a conditioning antioxidant extract. The panel names it twelfth on this cream's list, beside Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract.

All products with Camellia Japonica Leaf Extract

13Opuntia Coccinellifera Fruit Extractplant extract

Prickly pear fruit extract. The fruit carries betalain pigments and water-holding sugars, and it colours a formula pink. The panel names it thirteenth on this cream's list, beside Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract.

All products with Opuntia Coccinellifera Fruit Extract

14Citrus Unshiu Peel Extractplant extract

The peel extract of the satsuma mandarin, the gyul grown on Jeju. It carries flavonoids and aromatic oils and is used as a conditioning antioxidant extract. It is named fourteenth on this cream's list, alongside Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract.

All products with Citrus Unshiu Peel Extract

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25 of 26 explained

Water solvent: Water is the base almost every serum, toner and cream is built on. It dissolves the water-loving ingredients and sets how light the finished texture feels. On an INCI list it is usually first, which only means it is the largest single ingredient by weight.
Cetyl Ethylhexanoate emollient: Cetyl Ethylhexanoate is a synthetic ester used as a dry-feeling emollient. It spreads easily, leaves a silky rather than oily finish, and helps disperse pigments and UV filters evenly.
Dipropylene Glycol humectant: Dipropylene Glycol is a glycol used as a solvent and a light humectant. Its main job is keeping the rest of the formula dissolved and the texture fluid rather than adding hydration of its own.
Isopropyl Palmitate emollient: One of the oldest cosmetic emollient esters. It softens skin and thins a formula, and it is more occlusive than the very light modern esters.
Glycereth-26 humectant: Glycereth-26 is a modified glycerin that hydrates with far less stickiness than glycerin itself. It is a common way to load water into a formula that has to stay light.
Cetearyl Alcohol fatty alcohol: Cetearyl Alcohol is a waxy solid, not the drying kind of alcohol. It is a blend of cetyl and stearyl alcohols used to thicken a cream and keep oil and water from separating, and it softens skin as it does so.
Glyceryl Stearate emulsifier: Glyceryl Stearate is glycerin joined to stearic acid, and one of the most used emulsifiers in skincare. It holds oil and water together and thickens the result, and it softens skin at the same time.
Pyrus Malus (Apple) Seed Oil(99.5Ppm) emollient: Apple seed oil, pressed from the pips. It is a light oil high in linoleic acid.
Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract plant extract: Apple fruit extract, carrying malic acid, sugars and polyphenols. It is used as a conditioning extract with a mild acid character.
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract plant extract: Camellia Sinensis is the tea plant. Green tea leaf extract carries catechins, among the most studied plant antioxidants, and is used for the look of redness and oily shine.
Camellia Japonica Leaf Extract plant extract: The leaf extract of the Korean camellia, the same plant as the seed oil pressed on Jeju. It is used as a conditioning antioxidant extract.
Opuntia Coccinellifera Fruit Extract plant extract: Prickly pear fruit extract. The fruit carries betalain pigments and water-holding sugars, and it colours a formula pink.

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Citrus Unshiu Peel Extract plant extract: The peel extract of the satsuma mandarin, the gyul grown on Jeju. It carries flavonoids and aromatic oils and is used as a conditioning antioxidant extract.
Disodium EDTA chelator: EDTA is a chelator: it locks up trace metal ions from water and packaging that would otherwise turn a formula cloudy, off-colour or rancid. It does nothing to skin and appears at a fraction of a percent.
Butylene Glycol humectant: Butylene Glycol is a small glycol that does two jobs at once: it holds water in the top layer of skin and it dissolves plant extracts and actives that plain water cannot. It also thins a formula, which is why watery Korean essences lean on it.
Sorbitan Stearate emulsifier: Sorbitan Stearate is a mild emulsifier and thickener used to hold oil and water together in creams.
Stearic Acid fatty acid: Stearic Acid is a saturated fatty acid from plant fats, and one of the three lipid classes skin's own barrier is built from. In a formula it thickens, stabilises the emulsion and can be turned into a soap-style cleanser by adding a base.
Ethylhexylglycerin preservative booster: Ethylhexylglycerin softens skin and boosts a preservative system, which is why it is nearly always sitting beside phenoxyethanol or 1,2-hexanediol. It also cuts down the odour bacteria produce, so it turns up in deodorising products.
Carbomer thickener: Carbomer is a synthetic polymer that only gels once a base neutralises it, which is why arginine or tromethamine sits nearby on the list. It gives the clear, non-stringy gel texture a xanthan formula cannot reach.
Tromethamine pH adjuster: Tromethamine neutralises acidic thickeners such as carbomer so they gel, and holds a formula near skin-friendly pH. It is used at a fraction of a percent.
Palmitic Acid fatty acid: Palmitic Acid is a saturated fatty acid present in skin's own lipids. It thickens a formula, stabilises the emulsion and softens skin.
Polysorbate 60 emulsifier: Polysorbate 60 is a water-loving emulsifier used with a fatty co-emulsifier to build stable lotions and creams.
PEG-100 Stearate emulsifier: PEG-100 Stearate is a water-loving emulsifier almost always paired with glyceryl stearate. Together they form the standard cream base of the last fifty years.
Phenoxyethanol preservative: Phenoxyethanol is the most widely used cosmetic preservative outside the paraben family. It keeps a water-containing formula from growing bacteria and mould, and is capped at one percent in most markets, so it always sits low on a list.
Fragrance fragrance: Fragrance, or Parfum, is a single declaration standing for a whole scent blend, which can be dozens of materials. Regulators allow it as a trade secret, so a list showing only this word does not say what the scent is made of. It is the most common trigger named by people with reactive skin.

Inside the formula

Ingredients declared

Last

Fragrance on the list

9Pyrus Malus11Camellia Sinensis13Opuntia Coccinellifera

9Pyrus Malus
11Camellia Sinensis
13Opuntia Coccinellifera

Where each key active sits on the declared ingredient list, by entry number. Position is proportion: the further forward, the larger its share.

How to use

Apply as the last step of the routine, morning and/or night, smoothing over the whole face after serum or essence has absorbed.

Worth knowing

On oilier skin, a thinner layer at night rather than morning is a common starting point.

Complete the routine

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Total for 3 items$47.50

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The Original Korean Formula cream from innisfree, 150ml formulated with Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract and Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, shipped from California or direct from Korea.

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The manufacturer’s batch code, exactly as the maker printed it.

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What professionals say

What skin-care professionals say about skin care, quoted from the medical sources linked beside each.

Pretty much every step of a Korean skin care routine is going to have some component of hydration.
Alok Vij, MDDermatologist, Cleveland Clinic
Camellia japonica L. (Theaceae) seed oil is an essential component for skin protection, attributed to its antioxidant properties and anti-aging effects.
Gang ChenSchool of Pharmacy, Qingdao University, Life (Basel)