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BANILA CO Clean It Zero Pore Clarifying Cleansing Balm

Ingredients and claims, checked

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Last checked September 4, 2026

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What is it like at a glance?

What the ingredients do

Softening leads, with 3 of 22 ingredients. It also contains Salicylic Acid.

Softening
3
Moisture seal
1
Exfoliation
1
Cleansing
1

By skin type

  • DryUse with care
  • OilyGood fit
  • CombinationUse with care
  • SensitiveUse with care

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Worth knowing

  • Contains fragrance
  • Contains essential oil
  • Has a fungal-acne trigger

Made for

What is this product?

It's a cleansing balm.

Key ingredients
Capryloyl Salicylic Acid, Salicylic Acid, Gluconolactone
When
Evening

Who is it for?

Less suited to

  • Sensitive skin

What to watch for?

Watch-outs

  • Contains fragrance
  • Contains essential oil (Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil)
  • If you get fungal acne: Ethylhexyl Stearate, Jojoba seed oil

How do you use it?

Pairs well with
  • A water-based second cleanser applied immediately after rinsing
  • A leave-on humectant or barrier step later in the routine
Don't combine with
  • A leave-on BHA, LHA or PHA product used in the same session
  • Daily use on already-dry or barrier-compromised skin without a plain, acid-free cleanser in rotation

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Tap a name to read 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

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

What the claims add up to

Only partly backed:
less visible pores
See each claim, checked (5)

Claims, checked

  • A travel size that is easy to pack lightlybacked by evidence
  • [Vegan] Easy pore carepartly backed
  • Fresh deep cleansing all the way inside the poresoverstated
  • It cleanly cleanses everything from makeup to old flakes, sebum, impurities and blackheads.overstated
  • From cleansing to makeup, Banila Co, the house of radiant complexionnothing specific to check

We quote each claim exactly as the brand published it, then check it against the ingredient list and the brand's own documents.

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