Ingredient · Brightening
Arbutin: what it does & who it's for
Gently fades dark spots over time.
What it is
Gently fades dark spots over time. In short, it's one of the brightening ingredients Vaiya's engine understands and can match to your skin and goals.
How to use it
Introduce Arbutin slowly — every other day at first — and give your skin a couple of weeks to adjust before increasing frequency. Patch test on a small area first, and if you layer several actives, add one at a time so you can tell what's working.
Products in our catalog with Arbutin
Products whose ingredient lists we've checked and that contain Arbutin (no paid placement):
- Beauty of Joseon Glow Deep Serum Rice + Alpha Arbutin
- Hada Labo Shirojyun Premium Whitening Lotion
- Rohto Hada Labo Shirojyun Premium Whitening Jelly
- Beauty of Joseon Glow Deep Serum
- Torriden Cellmazing Centellareal Lotion
- innisfree 9 Solutions Cream
- innisfree 9 Solutions Emulsion
- innisfree 9 Solutions Serum
- innisfree 9 Solutions Toner
- Dr. Different CEQ Anti-oxidant Serum Ph.D
- Mary & May & MAY Citrus Unshiu Fruit + Tremella Fuciformis Serum
- TIRTIR Niacinamide 20% Serum
- Hada Labo Arbutin Whitening Shirojyun Cream
- The Ordinary Alpha Arbutin 2 % + Ha
- The Inkey List Alpha Arbutin Brightening Serum
Related ingredients
Salicylic acid (BHA)Glycolic acid (AHA)NiacinamideHyaluronic acidCentella (Cica)Snail mucinRetinolRetinaldehyde
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