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Dr.Althea

Dr.Althea Premium Quick Step Sebum Cleanser

Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read

Read on 2026-09-21

What is this product?

A plant extract heavy rinse-off cleanser in the scrub and peeling category, built on a water and glycerin base with soothing and pore oriented botanicals. Choose it if you want a gentle botanical sebum cleanser, but note it contains both eucalyptus and peppermint oils.

What makes it different?

The base is simple, with water, glycerin and 1,2-Hexanediol leading, followed by a long run of plant extracts from burdock root through seaweed and baobab items. Panthenol sits at position 25 and Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate at 28, giving the soothing side of the formula mid-to-late placement. The two polyglyceryl esters at positions 14 and 18 act as mild cleansing emulsifiers rather than oils.

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 8 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

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: 유칼립투스잎오일, 페퍼민트오일