The 3 in the name is a strength, not a tally. COSRX prints Sodium Hyaluronate(3%) fifth on its own ingredient list, and that entry is the only hyaluronate the bottle contains: one material at a declared concentration rather than three separate ones. The rest of the range is numbered the same way, with the Alpha-Arbutin 2 and the Retinol 0.3 both carrying their figure as a percentage inside the list itself.

The other half of the front label, Amino Acids + Ceramide NP, is the part shoppers tend to skip past. Eight free amino acids sit between positions twenty and thirty-two, with betaine, sodium PCA, sodium lactate and PCA scattered among them. Ceramide NP lands at thirty-three next to cholesterol and phytosphingosine, which is the grouping that usually signals a real lipid set rather than a token inclusion.

Texture follows the order. Water leads, then butylene glycol, propanediol and glycerin, so what comes out of the dropper is a thin clear fluid that sinks in quickly and leaves very little on the surface. Twenty millilitres is a small bottle and a few drops is the intended dose, so it lasts longer than the size suggests.

Two things are worth knowing first. Dimethicone sits twelfth, so this is not a silicone-free formula, and plain alcohol appears thirty-ninth of forty-three, low down but present. No fragrance, no parfum and no plant oil appears anywhere on the list.