THE SOONSOO AC CONTROL TONER

What is this product?

THE SOONSOO's AC Control Acne Skin Toner is an astringent oil-control toner rather than a calming one, and its own 27-ingredient label settles that: fermented ethanol is printed third and peppermint oil last, so skin whose acne comes with stinging and tightness should skip it despite the sensitive-skin reassurance on the listing. If you are pregnant, skip it outright, because the brand prints on its own label that pregnant users should not use this product. What is genuinely good here is placement, with niacinamide fourth and acetyl glucosamine fifth, higher than most acne toners put either, though the whitening-functional wording deserves care since the product's own information table carries no functional-cosmetic review row and no test of any kind, and the use-after-opening window is an unusually short four months.

What makes it different?

Ingredient placement is both the selling point and the warning. Niacinamide at fourth and acetyl glucosamine at fifth of 27 is a genuine dose position for the pair that oil control and tone actually run on, and twelve plant and mushroom extracts sit behind them, centella, licorice root, chamomile and purslane among them. But fermented ethanol at third is what gives this 150ml bottle its quick-drying, tightening feel, and the label also carries polyglyceryl-5 oleate, an oleate ester, under a product name that advertises itself as non-comedogenic with no test published behind the word. Nothing in the formula has a disclosed amount or a pH, and the ingredient list itself is read from the brand's own detail image rather than from page text.

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 1 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Propanediol
• Alcohol
• Niacinamide
• Acetyl Glucosamine
• Betaine
• Carpinus Tschonoskii Leaf Extract
• Quercus Mongolica Leaf Extract
• Bambusa Vulgaris Sap Extract
• Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract
• Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Cordyceps Sinensis Extract
• Trametes Versicolor Extract
• Polyglyceryl-5 Oleate
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Allantoin
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Sodium Phytate
• Usnea Barbata (Lichen) Extract
• Zanthoxylum Piperitum Fruit Extract
• Pulsatilla Koreana Extract
• Butylene Glycol
• Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil
• [원료적 효능효과에 한함]

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: Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil, Polyglyceryl-5 Oleate

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 6 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

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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