EIIO Anti-Pore Blackhead Kit

What is this product?

A two-step nose kit from a Korean brand that sells it direct: a step-1 softening mask, a step-2 pore-refining mask and a dual-tip swab, five uses per kit. The ingredient list was read from the statutory notice image on the brand's own page, one cell with a step-1 block of twenty nine entries and a step-2 block of twenty eight, zero unreadable characters. Step 1 carries jojoba seed oil, a botanical extract run, hydrogenated lecithin, peppermint leaf extract, peppermint extract and peppermint oil, and potassium hydroxide, with no fragrance entry. Step 2 carries four acid entries, lactobionic, mandelic, gluconic and citric, with centella, calendula and green tea extracts, humectants and a fragrance entry. The brand shows a closed patch test that names both masks. On the brand's storefront the kit is sold as a two-kit event bundle. No pH figure and no English ingredient list appear on any surface collected.

What makes it different?

What separates this kit on its own label is the split between the two sheets: an alkaline-adjusted step-1 mask with a botanical and peppermint run and no fragrance entry, then a step-2 mask carrying four acid entries, mandelic, lactobionic, gluconic and citric, with a fragrance entry at the end. The page calls the step-2 acids a triple AHA complex without naming which three it means. A dual-tip swab is part of the kit. The brand's safety evidence is a closed patch test naming both masks; effect claims are not measured.

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 10 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• 1제 마스크 : 정제수
• Glycerin
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Arctium Lappa Root Extract
• Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract
• Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Extract
• Chrysanthemum Sinense Flower Extract
• 헛개나무열매추출물
• Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Extract
• Panthenol
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• 오미자추출물
• Codonopsis Lanceolata Root Extract
• 목련가지/꽃/잎추출물
• 분홍바늘꽃꽃/잎/줄기추출물
• 노티드랙추출물
• Phytosterols
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Leaf Extract
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• 페퍼민트추출물
• Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil
• Ethyl Hexanediol
• Butylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Polysorbate 80
• 페녹시에탄올 2제 마스크 : 정제수
• Glycerin
• Betaine
• Lactobionic Acid
• Mandelic Acid
• Panthenol
• Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract
• 노티드랙추출물
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• 분홍바늘꽃꽃/잎/줄기추출물
• Illicium Verum (Anise) Fruit Extract
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract
• Gluconic Acid
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Butylene Glycol
• Xanthan Gum
• Citric Acid
• Sodium Citrate
• Sodium Hydroxide
• Disodium EDTA
• Polysorbate 80
• Phenoxyethanol
• Fragrance

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: 페퍼민트오일, 호호바씨오일, 피이지-40하이드로제네이티드캐스터오일, 폴리솔베이트80

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 21 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.

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