23YEARSOLD BADECASIL D

What is this product?

23YEARSOLD 바데카실D (BADECASIL D) is a 50 g tube exfoliating cream, the gentler half of the two part BADECASIL line, sold mainly through pharmacies and secondarily through the brand's own mall. The tube prints Betaine Salicylate 0.5%, Centella Asiatica Extract 2% and BADECA(TM) 0.5%, and a brand comparison block adds AHA 1%. The 45 item Korean statement puts glycolic acid at 11 and betaine salicylate at 16 with potassium hydroxide between them at 15, and no pH is published on any surface checked, so the free acid strength cannot be established. Positioned for skin that wants surface texture work without the sibling P's four times higher acid load. The brand cites a 22 person, single application surface smoothness study showing a 9.3 percent improvement, with no control arm and an unlinked DRAFT watermarked report. Evening use, three times a week for the first month by the brand's own instruction.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it. First, it is the low strength member of a deliberately split pair, and the split is published as numbers on the two tubes rather than implied, which lets a reader pick a strength instead of guessing. Second, the gentling is structural: alongside the reduced acids it adds a disclosed 2 percent centella and a ceramide NP, phytosphingosine and hydrogenated lecithin cluster that the stronger sibling does not carry.

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Each name links to what we know about that ingredient.

This brand publishes its ingredient list in Korean only. Names below are the matching INCI names from the Korean Cosmetic Association ingredient dictionary, except 3 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Pentylene Glycol
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Beeswax
• PEG-100 Stearate
• Glycolic Acid
• Polysorbate 60
• 솔비탄세스퀴
• 올리에이트
• Dimethicone
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Betaine Salicylate
• Aspergillus Ferment
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Xanthan Gum
• Urea
• Allantoin
• Panthenol
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Disodium EDTA
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract
• Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract
• Ocimum Sanctum Leaf Extract
• Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil
• Sucrose Distearate
• Ceramide NP
• Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Extract
• Phytosphingosine
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Ethyl Hexanediol
• Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract
• Coccinia Indica Fruit Extract
• Houttuynia Cordata Extract
• Corallina Officinalis Extract
• Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract
• Aloe Barbadensis Flower Extract
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Galactoarabinan
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• 참당귀추출물

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

We could not place these in the list above: Polysorbate 60, Glyceryl Stearate, PEG-100 Stearate, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Sucrose Distearate, Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cera Alba, Betaine Salicylate

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 26 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 of them hold up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

Each line is quoted as the brand published it, and each one was read on its own against the ingredient list and the documents the brand publishes.

How we read these lines

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

• 23YEARSOLD BADECASIL PThe stronger one of the two