COSRX Retinol 0.5% Oil: a Guru Score of 74% from 4 experts

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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~Yay

"This is a good one too. COSRX Retinol 0.5%. It's a super vitamin E plus niacinamide. So it's moisturizing as it's a retinol. It's a great product. But that's retinol, so it's going to be a little bit more for not for sensitive skin."

Kelly Driscoll

90k subs

~Mixed

"This is COSRX Retinol 0.5% Oil and I don't think this is a bad product. [...] I think that this is a product that definitely has a place and I think that a lot of folks will enjoy this type of product. Just for me personally, I don't have a ton of room in my routine for retinol types of products. I'm a tretinoin user, and so I would rather just stick with tretinoin than be bouncing back and forth between OTC retinoid products and then going back to the prescription tretinoin."

Nipun Kapur

412k subs

~Yay

"If you are size try something and Korea skincare is the cosrx retinol 0.5% which is an red it has 0.5% concentration"

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James Welsh

1.58M subs

~Yay

"I've talked about this one before, the COSRX 0.5 retinol. This is a great starter retinol that counteracts that kind of dryness that you may experience with first time retinol users, using Squalane. And I also find that retinol in an oil or a moisturizer in general just feels a lot gentler on the skin. And I do find in general retinols from Korea seem to be gentler, they're not as potent, but they do seem to be a lot gentler."

What the evidence says.

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Frequently asked.

What is COSRX Retinol 0.5% Oil?

A lightweight retinol oil with 0.5% retinol, blended with squalane and other moisturizing ingredients to reduce dryness and irritation.

Is COSRX Retinol 0.5% Oil worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 74%.

What is COSRX Retinol 0.5% Oil's Guru Score?

COSRX Retinol 0.5% Oil holds a Guru Score of 74%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 4 expert reviewers we have collected.