ATOPALM FACIAL FOAM WASH

What is this product?

ATOPALM Facial Foam Wash is a 150 ml pump dispensed, mildly acidic foaming cleanser positioned for infant and sensitive adult facial skin. Its 32 item disclosure explains the positioning: five surfactants that are two alkyl glucosides, an amphoacetate, an acyl glutamate and a sultaine, with no sulfate and no soap base anywhere, plus a citric acid and sodium citrate buffer pair that makes an acidic wash physically possible. Humectants are heavy for a rinse off, and three pseudo ceramide class entries sit at 23 to 25. The brand cites four studies from one named clinical institution dated 2026.05 to 2026.06, including a 33 subject patch test returning a 0.00 irritation index and a 20 subject hydration trial whose published raw means check out against its headline percentage. A ten item free from list verifies ten for ten against the disclosure. The claims that do not hold are the absolutes built on top of those results, two patented ingredient names absent from the list, and an infant positioning with adult only panels.

What makes it different?

A face wash whose entire claim set rests on four dated studies from one named clinical institution, one of which publishes its raw measurement means, on a sulfate free and soap free surfactant system buffered to stay acidic. The counterweight is that every panel is adults while the product is positioned for infants, and two patented ingredient names cited with registration numbers cannot be found in the ingredient list.

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 4 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Glycerin
• Sorbitol
• Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside
• Coco-Glucoside
• Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate
• Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Sodium Chloride
• Lauryl Hydroxysultaine
• Citric Acid
• Hydroxyethyl Urea
• 향기제비꽃잎추출물
• 오렌지꽃수
• 청차잎추출물
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Allantoin
• Panthenol
• Sodium PCA
• Sodium Phytate
• Hexylene Glycol
• Sodium Citrate
• 비스-카프릴로일옥시팔미타미도이소프로판올
• N-Decanoyl Serinol
• Palmitoyl Palmitamide MEA
• Tocopherol
• Leucine
• Lysine
• Phenylalanine
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Threonine
• Valine

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

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 68 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 34 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