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TheLeeds LicoTeca Real Fresh Cream Cleansing Foam

Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read

Read on 2026-09-24

What is this product?

A Korean cream cleansing foam from TheLeeds, sold as a 120 ml tube on the brand's own store. Its cleansing base is a potassium soap, five fatty acids with potassium hydroxide, joined by an amino acid surfactant, a betaine and a nonionic surfactant, and the brand's own graphic places it at pH 10, on the alkaline side. The LicoTeca soothing complex is a licorice root extract plus three centella derived compounds, all in the lower half of the list with no levels. The brand prints sunscreen and fine dust removal tests and a satisfaction questionnaire whose footnotes do not name the product tested, and pictures a vegan certificate naming this product. There is no fragrance entry, no essential oil and no exfoliating acid. No lived use reports were collected.

What makes it different?

A soap based cream foam with a soothing extract story, where the copy frames it as a gentle amino acid cleanser. The brand is open about the alkalinity, printing pH 10 itself, which lets a reader choose it for a thorough cleanse or avoid it for reactive skin. The soothing actives are traceable by name on the label but carry no levels and are rinsed off.

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 2 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: 미리스틱애씨드, 팔미틱애씨드, 라우릭애씨드, 스테아릭애씨드, 카프릭애씨드, 피이지-40스테아레이트, 피이지-100스테아레이트, 글리세릴스테아레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 17 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 of them look likely, though none are proven outright.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

likely, not proven2

  • Soft and rich fresh cream micro-foam
    Korean original

    부드럽고 풍성한 생크림 미세거품

  • Chewy, sticky ivory-colored cream formulation
    Korean original

    쫀득쫀득한 상아색의 크림 제형

partly backed10

  • Low-irritation mildly alkaline #TightCleansing
    Korean original

    저자극 약알칼리성으로 #밀착세정

  • With patented ingredient Ricoteca™ #MoistSoothing
    Korean original

    특허원료 리코테카™로 #촉촉진정

  • With rich and fluffy fresh cream foam, skin texture becomes smooth
    Korean original

    쫀쫀풍성 생크림 거품으로 매끈해지는 피부 결

  • 100% product satisfaction
    Korean original

    제품 만족도 100%

  • Sunscreen cleansing effect 93.96% cleansing
    Korean original

    선크림 세정효과 93.96%세정

  • Fine dust cleansing effect 99.58% cleansing
    Korean original

    미세먼지 세정효과 99.58%세정

  • The coconut-derived natural amino acid surfactant creates soft and abundant foam, is low-irritating to the skin, and leaves moisture, helping clean and moist cleansing.
    Korean original

    코코넛 자연유래 아미노산 계면활성제는 부드럽고 풍부한 거품을 생성하고 피부에 자극이 적고 수분을 남겨줘서 말끔하고 촉촉한 클렌징을 도와줍니다.

  • A patented ingredient unique to The Liz, formulated with optimal ratios of core ingredients extracted from Changgwa licorice root and centella.
    Korean original

    창과감초뿌리와 병풀에서 추출한 핵심 성분을 최적의 비율로 배합한 더리즈만의 특허 원료.

  • NO animal-derived ingredients, vegan certified
    Korean original

    NO 동물성원료 비건인증

  • The Liz Cleansing Foam is a 100% vegan product certified by the Vegan Standard Certification Institute.
    Korean original

    더리즈 클렌징폼은 비건표준인증원으로부터 인증을 받은 100% 비건 제품입니다

overstated ad line3

  • Cleanly into the pores
    Korean original

    모공 속까지 말끔하게

  • Compared to mildly acidic, with powerful cleansing power+moisture retention, it cares for the skin's healthy pH balance.
    Korean original

    약산성 대비 강력한 세정력+수분감 유지로 피부의 건강한 pH밸런스를 케어해줍니다.

  • Mild and gentle amino cleansing even for sensitive skin
    Korean original

    예민한 피부에도 순하고 부드러운 아미노 클렌징

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  • Completed skin low-irritation test, so you can use it with confidence.
    Korean original

    피부 저자극 테스트를 완료하여 안심하고 사용 가능합니다

  • It effectively soothes skin sensitized by external irritation and helps strengthen the skin barrier.
    Korean original

    외부 자극으로 예민해진 피부를 효과적으로 진정시켜주고, 피부장벽을 강화하는 데 도움을 줍니다.

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