SCINIC's The Simple Relief Water Cream is an 80ml jar with twenty-three ingredients in it, and the brevity is deliberate rather than incidental — the line is called Simple and the formula behaves like it. Korean readers describe it in almost the same words each time: pH 5.5, calming, and thin. One reviewer who read the list before buying picked out centella extract for calming and prickly pear stem for water, in a texture she calls frankly watery. Another was blunter about what that means in the hand: it is like a mist turned into a cream, or an aloe gel with nothing clinging — unremarkable in a way she meant as criticism.

Korean name: 싸이닉 더 심플 릴리프 수분크림
Size: 80ml