Cleansing
What is Lauric 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: Cleansing, Surfactant, emulsifying, Surfactant, cleansing.
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.
COSRX
Salicylic Acid Daily Gentle Cleanser
We checked 4 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.
1backed1likely1partly backed1overstated
See the label check (4 lines)
Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.
- Functional cosmetic status: not applicable
Korean original
기능성 화장품 여부 해당없음
- For use on oily and combination skin
Korean original
지복합성 피부 사용
- Salicylic Acid Daily Gentle Cleanser
Korean original
살리실산 데일리 젠틀 클렌저
- Salicylic Acid Daily Gentle Cleanser
Korean original
살리실산 데일리 젠틀 클렌저
LAGOM
Micro Pore Cleansing Oil
We checked 8 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.
2partly backed2overstated4no evidence
See the label check (8 lines)
Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.
- A cleansing oil with a light texture
Korean original
가벼운 제형의 클렌징 오일
- Core ingredients: hydroxyethyl urea, soapberry extract, soapwort leaf extract
Korean original
핵심성분 하이드록시에틸우레아, 무환자추출물, 비누풀잎추출물
- From 99% perfect cleansing to pore tightening
Korean original
99% 완벽 클렌징부터 모공 타이트닝까지
- Moisture cleansing oil
Korean original
수분 클렌징 오일
- With fine micro oil particles
Korean original
미세한 마이크로 오일 입자로
- 99% perfect cleansing
Korean original
99% 완벽 클렌징
- 99% cleansing of pore impurities
Korean original
99% 모공노폐물 세정
- Deep cleansingㅣultrafine dust cleansing
Korean original
딥 클렌징ㅣ초 미세먼지 세정
What is it usually paired with?
Ingredients that other products put on the front of the label together with this one.