FATION NOSCA9 CLEANSING GEL

What is this product?

FATION's 노스카나인 Cleansing Gel, from Dong-A Pharmaceutical, is a 200ml gel sold as 약산성 and as a cleanser for sensitive skin, and both of those deserve pushback. FATION publishes no pH figure at all, and the same ingredient list carries the base-side adjusters 트로메타민 and 소듐카보네이트 plus four scented oils, 베르가모트오일, 센티드제라늄꽃오일, 광곽향오일 and 살비아오일, and 에탄올 as well. What it does deliver is 소듐헤파린 at position 10, heading a soothing run down to position 13 with 판테놀, 알란토인 and 쑥잎추출물, and a wash split across four mild surfactant types instead of soap.

What makes it different?

The fragrance load is what defines it. Gel cleansers that claim 약산성 and low irritation together usually narrow towards no fragrance at all; this one carries four aromatic oils at once and needs 폴리글리세릴-10라우레이트 at position 28 to hold them in solution, which is where the formula argues with the 민감피부클렌저 line printed on the same package. Its other signature is 소듐헤파린 at position 10, a material better known as an anticoagulant and rarely seen this high on a face wash, and the ingredient the 노스카나인 line is built around. Unlike the 트러블 클렌징 폼 in the same line, this one carries no 여드름성 피부 완화 functional designation.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Glycerin
• Lauryl Hydroxysultaine
• Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate
• Acrylates Copolymer
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Decyl Glucoside
• Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate
• Sodium Chloride
• Sodium Heparin
• Panthenol
• Allantoin
• Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract
• Tromethamine
• Citric Acid
• Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Oil
• Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Oil
• Sorbitol
• Butylene Glycol
• Alcohol
• Pogostemon Cablin Oil
• Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Oil
• Sodium Carbonate
• Pantolactone
• Disodium EDTA
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate

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: 베르가모트오일, 센티드제라늄꽃오일, 광곽향오일, 살비아오일, 폴리글리세릴-10라우레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 4 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