irecipe Cica PDRN Blemish Clear Toner Pad

What is this product?

A 70 pad leave on toner pad from a Korean brand, sold on its own web store, built around centella and a DNA ingredient the brand markets as cica PDRN. The printed list gives the centella extract at 205 ppm and the DNA entry at 0.5 ppb near the end. The statutory notice files it as a whitening and wrinkle improving functional cosmetic, and the list carries niacinamide third, arbutin ninth and adenosine. The liquid is humectant led with eight hyaluronate forms, a cellulose thickener and one plant oil. A fragrance entry is printed and gluconolactone, a polyhydroxy acid, sits at 15, so it is not acid free. The brand's own tests on this pad, 21 adults, report a skin temperature drop after one use and percentage improvements in marks without a published method; its absorption test concerns a sibling serum.

What makes it different?

Three things separate it. First, a registered double function on a pad: the statutory notice files it as whitening and wrinkle improving, with niacinamide, arbutin and adenosine on the list. Second, printed levels for its headline actives, centella extract at 205 ppm and the DNA ingredient at 0.5 ppb, which let a reader see how small the PDRN share is. Third, a tested cooling result on this named pad, a 6.1 degree surface temperature drop after one use. Against that, a fragrance entry and a polyhydroxy acid are printed, and the absorption claim rests on a sibling product's test.

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.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Niacinamide
• Isopentyldiol
• Methyl Gluceth-20
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Diethoxyethyl Succinate
• Erythritol
• Arbutin
• C12-14 Alketh-12
• Sodium Citrate
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Allantoin
• Gluconolactone
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Adenosine
• Fragrance
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Glycerin
• Sodium Phytate
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Citric Acid
• Methyl Diisopropyl Propionamide
• Biosaccharide Gum-1
• Beta-Glucan
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Collagen
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Squalane
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Madecassic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
• Sodium DNA
• Asiatic Acid
• Potassium Hyaluronate
• Asiaticoside

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

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Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 20 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.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

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