BANILACO Clean It Zero Cleansing Balm Original

What is this product?

Buy Banila Co's Clean It Zero Cleansing Balm Original to take off waterproof makeup and sunscreen, not to clear pores. It is a waterless ester-and-wax balm you rub on dry skin, emulsify with water and rinse, then follow with a water-based wash, and its 18-ingredient label prints 향료 at position 11, ahead of three of its four botanical extracts, so this is a scented product.

What makes it different?

It is a generalist, not a pore product: the label names no pore-directed active at all, yet the shopping pages tag it 모공케어 and sell it on 모공 속 노폐물, which is more than an 18-ingredient rinse-off can support. It is easy to find in whatever size you want, 25ml, 50ml, 100ml and 180ml plus a travel kit, and a price-comparison search on its name returns 462 listings overall with 7 on the price-comparison tab, though that search sweeps in siblings and other brands too. So skip it for congestion and reach for it for waterproof makeup.

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.

Worth a closer look

• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• Ethylhexyl Stearate
• PEG-20 Glyceryl Triisostearate
• PEG-10 Isostearate
• Synthetic Wax
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Butylene Glycol
• Water
• Malpighia Glabra (Acerola) Fruit Extract
• Fragrance
• Lithospermum Erythrorhizon Root Extract
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Onsen-Sui
• Punica Granatum Fruit Extract
• Vaccinium Macrocarpon (Cranberry) Fruit Extract
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• Ascorbic Acid

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: Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Ethylhexyl Stearate, PEG-20 Glyceryl Triisostearate, PEG-10 Isostearate, Olive Oil

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 6 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.

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

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

• Dr.G Green Deep Pore Cleansing BalmAnother product in the same category
• beplain Mung Bean Pore Cleansing Milk BalmThe gentler one of the two
• BANILA CO Clean It Zero Pore Clarifying Cleansing BalmAnother product in the same category