Hair conditioning

What is Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate?

This ingredient is listed in CosIng, the European Commission’s public database of cosmetic ingredients. The function classes that database records for it are: Hair conditioning, 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, 3 put this one on the front.

FATION

FATION NOSCA9 CLEANSING GEL

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.

1partly backed2overstated1no evidence

See the label check (4 lines)

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

partly backed1
  • #FineFoam
    Korean original

    #미세거품

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  • #UltrafineDustCleansing
    Korean original

    #초미세먼지클렌징

  • #SensitiveSkinCleanser
    Korean original

    #민감피부클렌저

no evidence1
  • #WeaklyAcidicCleansing
    Korean original

    #약산성클렌징

make p:rem

Safe Me. Relief Moisture Cleansing Foam

We checked 7 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.

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See the label check (7 lines)

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

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  • In the case of a functional cosmetic (brightening, wrinkle improvement, sunscreen products, etc.) under the 「Cosmetics Act」: not applicable
    Korean original

    「화장품법」에 따른 기능성 화장품(미백, 주름개선, 자외선 차단제품 등)의 경우 해당없음

likely, not proven2
  • It removes impurities freshly without skin tightness and maintains the skin's pH balance, grooming the skin to be healthy and moist.
    Korean original

    피부 당김 없이 산뜻하게 노폐물을 제거하고 피부 pH 밸런스를 유지시켜 건강하고 촉촉한 피부로 가꿔준다.

  • It is rated as improving the lathering power that was the weak point of existing weakly acidic cleansers, so that rich and fine micro bubbles are created and it satisfies soft yet refreshing cleansing power as well.
    Korean original

    기존 약산성 클렌저의 단점이었던 거품력을 개선해, 풍성하고 미세한 마이크로 버블이 만들어져 부드럽고 개운한 세정력까지 모두 만족시켜 준다는 평가를 받고 있다.

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  • It is a pH 5.5 reassuring formulation weakly acidic cleansing foam that maintains the skin's pH balance and grooms the skin to be healthy.
    Korean original

    피부 pH 밸런스를 유지시켜 피부를 건강하게 가꿔주는 pH 5.5 안심 처방 약산성 클렌징 폼이다.

overstated ad line1
  • Using only safe raw materials at EWG green grade 0 to 2 it is called a 'reassuring cleansing foam', and with a plant derived natural surfactant extracted from coconut, 100% natural fragrance and the aromatherapy effect of natural essential oil fragrance, it protects the skin comfortably without irritation.
    Korean original

    EWG 0~2 그린 등급의 안전한 원료만 사용해 '안심 클렌징 폼'으로 불리며, 코코넛에서 추출한 식물 유래 천연 계면활성제와 100% 천연 향, 천연 에션셜 오일 향의 아로마 테라피 효과로 피부를 자극 없이 편안하게 지켜준다.

no evidence1
  • The reassuring cleansing foam is a product that has completed a skin irritation test, a product applicable to all skin in every age group
    Korean original

    안심 클렌징 폼은 피부 자극 테스트를 마친 제품으로, 전 연령대 모든 피부에 적용이 가능한 제품

says nothing1
  • A pH 5.5 weakly acidic cleansing foam containing rich lathering power, refreshing cleansing power and reassuring ingredients you can trust
    Korean original

    풍부한 거품력과 개운한 세정력, 믿을 수 있는 안심 성분을 함유한 pH 5.5 약산성 클렌징 폼

Product photo of Micro Pore Cleansing Oil

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.

partly backed2
  • 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

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  • From 99% perfect cleansing to pore tightening
    Korean original

    99% 완벽 클렌징부터 모공 타이트닝까지

  • Moisture cleansing oil
    Korean original

    수분 클렌징 오일

no evidence4
  • 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.