Efilow
Efilow Heartleaf 80 Hyalucica Trouble Soothing Toner
Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read
Read on 2026-09-06
What is this product?
Efilow's Heartleaf 80 Hyalucica Trouble Soothing Toner is a well-built 300ml soothing toner if you read the label instead of the front: 10 kinds of hyaluronic acid (a count its ingredient list bears out exactly), purslane fifth of 33 ingredients, plus centella, madecassoside, panthenol and a ceramide, with no fragrance, alcohol or exfoliating acid. The percentages on the packaging are the part to ignore, because the brand advertises 80 percent Himalayan heartleaf while its own ingredient list prints heartleaf extract at 8,250ppm, which is 0.825 percent, and explains nothing about the difference. The 241 percent stronger claim names no baseline and no test either, and Efilow publishes no pH number, only the word mildly acidic.
What makes it different?
Ten hyaluronate species is the claim the brand makes and the one thing on this page that its own label confirms exactly, and it arrives alongside a soothing set most heartleaf toners do not bother with: purslane at position five, centella, madecassoside, panthenol and Ceramide NP. Set against that, the two headline numbers both fail on the same page that prints them. Heartleaf is on the label at 8,250ppm while the front says 80 percent, and the 241 percent stronger figure names no baseline, no method and no institution.
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 ingredient
- Water
- Butylene Glycol
- 1,2-Hexanediol
- Glycerin
- Portulaca Oleracea Extract
- Houttuynia Cordata Extract
- Saccharomyces/Rice Ferment Filtrate
- Centella Asiatica Extract
- Ficus Carica (Fig) Fruit Extract
- Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Extract
- Hydrogenated Lecithin
- Sodium Hyaluronate
- Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate
- Betaine
- 소듐시트레이드
- Panthenol
- Citric Acid
- Disodium EDTA
- Dextrin
- Madecassoside
- Ceramide NP
- Cyanocobalamin
- Dimethylsilanol Hyaluronate
- Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
- Sodium Hyaluronate Dimethylsilanol
- Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
- Potassium Hyaluronate
- Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
- Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
- Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
- Hyaluronic Acid
- Hydroxyacetophenone
- Ethylhexylglycerin
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: Hydrogenated Lecithin
Did the ad claims hold up?
We checked 7 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
- ✅ Beneficial bacteria balance
Korean original
✅ 유익균밸런스
- ✅ Blemish soothing
Korean original
✅ 트러블진정
partly backed2
- ✅ Oil and moisture balance
Korean original
✅ 유수분밸런스
- Epilow | A mildly acidic blemish soothing toner 300ml that soothes skin with 80% Himalayan Houttuynia cordata. With Jeju vegan biome and tenfold hyaluronic acid, it provides a healthy oil and moisture balance.
Korean original
에필로우 | 히말라야 어성초 80%로 피부를 진정시키는 약산성 트러블 수딩 토너 300ml. 제주 비건 바이옴과 10중 히알루론산으로 건강한 유수분 균형을 제공합니다.
overstated ad line2
- ✅ Himalayan Houttuynia cordata 80%
Korean original
✅ 히말라야 어성초 80%
- Contains 80% Himalayan Houttuynia cordata, tiny bumpy acne
Korean original
히말라야어성초80%함유 좁쌀여드름
no evidence1
- 👩🔬 Himalayan Houttuynia cordata, 241% stronger than Houttuynia cordata 👩🔬
Korean original
👩🔬 어성초보다 241% 더 강한 히말라야 어성초 👩🔬
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.
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