Green Tea Hyaluronic Lotion is the emulsion step in Innisfree's green tea range, and the word lotion here carries its Korean meaning: a thin milky fluid for the face, not a body cream. It follows your toner and comes before a richer moisturiser, and when the air is humid many people stop here rather than adding a cream.

Read the panel from the top and the priorities are plain. Water leads, glycerin follows immediately in second place, and niacinamide sits seventh, above the fatty-alcohol and alkyl-glucoside pair that gives the fluid its milky body. That order is why the texture stays thin enough to vanish in a few seconds while still leaving skin cushioned rather than bare.

Both halves of the name are printed further down. The tea is given as Camellia sinensis leaf extract, harvested from the Jeju fields the brand farms itself. Hyaluronic acid is written out five separate times, named one by one instead of buried inside a proprietary blend. Every one of the five sits in the back half of the panel, which is ordinary for this family, and adding them up tells you about the formulation brief rather than about how much water the lotion holds.

Nothing on the list is there for scent: no parfum, no essential oil, no added colourant either. That makes it an uncomplicated layer to put under sunscreen or makeup.