Dr.G Red Blemish Clear Soothing Toner

What is this product?

A 500ml Dr.G toner worth buying for calm rather than for exfoliation: the thirty item list carries the full cica set (madecassoside, asiaticoside, madecassic and asiatic acid) plus purslane, panthenol and ceramide NP, with zero fragrance, zero drying alcohol and zero exfoliating acid. Skip it if the exfoliating wording on its listings is what attracted you, because willow bark, apple and sugarcane extracts are the only basis for that and none of them is an acid. One listing advertises a notified whitening functionality, and this product's own Olive Young record declares its functional-cosmetic filing status as 해당사항 없음, so that advertisement is contradicted by the product's own record. Niacinamide sits fifth. Manufactured by 한국콜마 for 고운세상코스메틱 in Korea, sold in a wipe-or-pat format at a size meant for daily generous use.

What makes it different?

Two things set it apart on the toner board: a 500ml format built for cotton pad use at daily volume, and a documented mismatch between what its retail listings advertise (exfoliation, notified whitening) and what its own ingredient string and its own Olive Young filing field support.

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 ingredient

• Water
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Propanediol
• Pentylene Glycol
• Niacinamide
• Butylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Ficus Carica (Fig) Fruit Extract
• Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract
• Saccharum Officinarum (Sugarcane) Extract
• Malus Domestica Fruit Extract
• Aloe Ferox Leaf Extract
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Panthenol
• Raffinose
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Tromethamine
• Disodium EDTA
• Betaine
• Beta-Glucan
• Madecassoside
• Ceramide NP
• Madecassic Acid
• Asiaticoside
• Asiatic Acid
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Caprylyl Glycol

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: 하이드로제네이티드레시틴

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 5 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

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