Antioxidant

What is Ascorbic Acid?

This ingredient is listed in CosIng, the European Commission’s public database of cosmetic ingredients. The function classes that database records for it are: Antioxidant, Buffering, Fragrance, Skin conditioning.

A function class records the role an ingredient is put in a formula for. It is what the database files the ingredient under, not a finding of ours about what it does on skin.

Which products use it?

Of the 130 products whose labels we have read, 2 put this one on the front.

Goodal

Cheonggyul Vitamin C Toning Cleansing Balm

We checked 6 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.

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See the label check (6 lines)

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

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  • It contains green tangerine extract (tangerine extract) and vitamin C, so after washing, clear skin care as if you had done a vitamin pack is possible
    Korean original

    청귤 추출물(탄제린 추출물)과 비타민C 성분이 들어있어 세안 후에 마치 비타민 팩을 한 것 같은 맑은 피부 케어가 가능하다

  • The refreshing green tangerine sherbet texture melts softly into the skin and cleanly washes away everything from makeup to blackheads and flakes
    Korean original

    상큼한 청귤 샤벳 제형이 피부에 부드럽게 녹아들어 메이크업부터 블랙헤드, 각질까지 말끔하게 씻어내준다

  • With one-step cleansing power that needs no bothersome double cleansing, clean cleansing is possible by packing just one travel kit without other washing tools
    Korean original

    번거로운 이중세안이 필요 없는 원스텝 세정력으로, 다른 세안 도구 없이 트래블 키트 하나만 챙기면 깔끔한 클렌징이 가능하다

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  • The steady seller Green Tangerine Vita C Toning Cleansing Balm
    Korean original

    스테디셀러 청귤 비타C토닝 클렌징 밤

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  • MFDS-notified functional ingredient: helps with brightening
    Korean original

    식약처 고시 기능성 성분 : 미백도움

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  • Equipped with both product performance and portability
    Korean original

    제품력과 휴대성을 모두 갖춘

Round Lab

Birch Moisture Cleansing Pad

We checked 4 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.

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See the label check (4 lines)

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

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  • The dense lattice-type pad holds a large amount of essence, gently removing makeup and impurities and caring for skin that stays moist without tightness even after washing.
    Korean original

    촘촘한 격자형 패드가 다량의 에센스를 보유하여 메이크업과 노폐물을 부드럽게 제거하고 세안 후에도 당김 없이 촉촉한 피부로 케어 해준다.

  • Immediately after 1 use, skin moisture increased by 139.07%, helping improve skin moisturisation, and in a 3-type cleansing power evaluation impurities inside pores fell 96.19%, fine dust simulant cleansing power fell 99.33% and sunscreen fell 82.83%, proving outstanding cleansing power and moist hydrating power.
    Korean original

    1 회 사용 직후, 피부 수분이 139.07%가 증가되어 피부 보습 개선에 도움을 주며, 3 종 세정력 평가에서 모공 속 노폐물 96.19% 감소, 미세먼지 모사체 세정력 99.33% 감소, 자외선 차단제 82.83% 감소되어 뛰어난 세정력과 촉촉한 보습력을 입증받았다.

  • Birch Moisture Cleansing Pad is an eco-friendly product that uses no animal raw materials and uses 100% naturally derived vegan certified fabric, and it is a weakly acidic pad that not only removes impurities inside the skin but also comfortably soothes skin made sensitive by mask wearing, without irritation.
    Korean original

    자작나무 수분 클렌징 패드는 동물성 원료를 사용하지 않고 100% 자연 유래 비건 인증 원단을 사용한 친환경 제품이며, 피부 속 노폐물 제거는 물론 마스크 착용으로 예민해진 피부를 자극 없이 편안하게 진정시켜주는 약산성 패드이다.

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  • Product power in which the large 8cm pad size covers a wide area of skin, so just a single pad shortens the bothersome cleansing process quickly and easily
    Korean original

    8cm의 큰 패드 사이즈가 피부에 닿는 면적이 넓어 단 한 장의 패드만으로 번거로운 클렌징 과정을 빠르고 간편하게 단축시켜 주는 제품력

What is it usually paired with?

Ingredients that other products put on the front of the label together with this one.