Buffering
What is Glycolic 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: Buffering.
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, 3 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.
3overstated1no evidence1refuted1says nothing
See the label check (6 lines)
Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.
- 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
- The steady seller Green Tangerine Vita C Toning Cleansing Balm
Korean original
스테디셀러 청귤 비타C토닝 클렌징 밤
- MFDS-notified functional ingredient: helps with brightening
Korean original
식약처 고시 기능성 성분 : 미백도움
- Equipped with both product performance and portability
Korean original
제품력과 휴대성을 모두 갖춘
MEDICUBE
Zero Pore One-Day Peptide Serum
We checked 2 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.
1partly backed1no evidence
See the label check (2 lines)
Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.
- A pore serum that adds pore elasticity and brightening of the pore area to pore shrinking
Korean original
모공 축소에 모공 탄력, 모공 부위 미백까지 더한 모공 세럼
- [BEST] From the additional product description of the 2-week pore tightening care set: 'improve pore elasticity with the two Zero Pore products'
Korean original
[BEST] 2주 모공 타이트닝 관리 세트 상품추가설명 중 '제로 모공 2종으로 모공 탄력 개선'
NEEDLY
Mild Enzyme Cleansing Powder
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.
3partly backed1overstated2says nothing
See the label check (6 lines)
Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.
- #60SecondWashPack#FlakeImprovement
Korean original
#60초세안팩#각질개선
- Mild
Korean original
마일드
- Wet your palms with water, dispense an appropriate amount of powder, rub it, work up a lather, roll it gently over the skin, then finish by washing with lukewarm water.
Korean original
손바닥에 물을 묻힌 후 파우더를 적당량 덜어 비빈 후 거품을 내어 피부에 부드럽게 롤링 후 미온수로 세안하여 마무리 합니다.
- For all skin types
Korean original
모든 피부용
- This is Needly NEEDLY, a beauty & lifestyle brand that helps our true inner beauty be revealed.
Korean original
우리 내면의 진정한 아름다움이 드러날 수 있도록 도와주는 뷰티 & 라이프스타일 브랜드, 니들리 NEEDLY입니다.
- Hitting skin concerns right on the mark
Korean original
피부 고민에 정곡을 찌르다
What is it usually paired with?
Ingredients that other products put on the front of the label together with this one.