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The FANCL MUTENKA Assurance
MUTENKA ensures pure, stress-free skincare that only gives skin what it truly needs and nothing else. Written in Japanese kanji as 「無添加」, MUTENKA means “without additives.” It indicates that it is free of preservative and additives for complete safety, greater effectiveness and long-lasting skincare results.

The FANCL MUTENKA AssuranceComplete safety
Our MUTENKA philosophy and practices ensure that our preservative-free skincare products are safe and gentle, even on sensitive skin. Wholly committed to the science of stress-free skin, nothing that has the slightest risk of harming skin, whether immediately or over times, is allowed into any FANCL product.

All of our skincare products and the ingredients we use are required to pass stringent safety tests, as well as meet strict quality standards. You can trust our products to be safe, gentle and effective on skin.

High Safety Standards; More stringent than the Japanese government

In addition to not using the 102 cosmetic ingredients restricted by the Japanese government, we have established an even more stringent FANCL Safety Standard (FSS).


FANCL Safety Standard (FSS)

Skincare Ingredients that are preservative-free

  • Free of ingredients which have high possibility of causing skin irritations eg. preservative, steriliser, UV absorbent, aritifical coloring, petroleum surfactant, fragrances and mineral oil.

Safety Test on Ingredients

  • Toxicity Test on cell/skin model
  • Skin irritation, Non-comedogenic, Allergy test, etc

Product Safety Test on Usage on Sensitive Skin

  • Toxicity Test on cell/skin model
  • Patch Test on sensitive skin
  • Cumultive irritation test on sensitive skin
  • skin irritancy test on sensitive skin
  • Allergy test
  • Non-comedogenic test
  • Clinical Test by dermatologist

FSS is the “standard for safety, trust and gentleness” that FANCL has defined to assure safe usage on all skin types include sensitive skin. It guarantees the effectiveness and superior gentle qualities of every ingredient.


Advanced Preservation Technologies; Stress-free, preservative-free skincare To ensure your stress-free skincare experience, we constantly innovate to improve our product formulations and packaging techniques to help our products stay fresh while staying completely free of preservatives.

FANCL’s patented ring seal and cap design prevents air contamination and ensures absolute freshness and purity.We seal all our preservative-free products to ensure no contamination of its contents. FANCL’s patented ring seal and cap design used in all our basic skincare products ensure absolute freshness and purity. This smart little innovation even won a 2008 design award.

Advanced Research Approach; Delivering full benefits in each solution
Based on our MUTENKA philosophy, intensive research is conducted to determine how to ensure skin receives the best possible benefits from our products.

To date, FANCL has over 400 products such registered for patent, and we continue to pursue innovation in all aspects of operations, from ingredient formulation to packaging.