Isntree Onion Newpair Clear Pad

What is this product?

A Korean toner pad from Isntree, sold as a jar of 60 thick cotton pads soaked in 250 ml of essence from the brand's own storefront, and filed as a two function brightening and wrinkle care cosmetic. The essence is water led and oil free: niacinamide at five and adenosine at ten carry the functional filing, a tranexamic acid and a sodium ascorbyl phosphate join the brightening side, and gluconolactone at eighteen is the gentle polyhydroxy acid the brand sells as its smoothing agent. The calming group the brand names is sodium heparin, houttuynia extract, panthenol and allantoin, all printed. The one disclosed level is onion extract at 843 ppm in eighth place, while the jar label prints 820,000 ppm; a footnote under the disclosure says labelling rules now separate solvent from extract, so the two figures sit on different bases. The measured evidence concerns the pad rather than the formula: a textile report showing 100 percent cotton with no formaldehyde detected and no fluorescence, plus weighing and ruler photographs. No level for any functional active, no pH for the essence and no irritation study appear on the surfaces read. No fragrance, no essential oil and no drying alcohol are listed. No lived use reports were collected.

What makes it different?

The pad is the part of this product with its own evidence: a seven layer, uncoated, 100 percent cotton sheet at 7 cm, with a textile report on the cotton and the brand's own weighing and size photographs. The formula is largely a line and brand convention. Onion extract, sodium heparin and houttuynia extract are printed in landed sibling products of the same Onion Newpair line, and the niacinamide, adenosine and gluconolactone set also appears in the brand's other landed toner pad. What this list adds against those siblings is small and specific: gluconolactone, beta glucan, a polysorbate 60 solubiliser and two phosphate buffers are absent from all three landed line siblings. The trade-offs sit on the same page: a jar figure of 820,000 ppm against a disclosed 843 ppm, no level for any functional active, and a clinically proven non irritating carton line with no study among the surfaces read.

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 ingredient

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Niacinamide
• Sodium Heparin
• Trehalose
• Allium Cepa (Onion) Bulb Extract
• Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract
• Adenosine
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Houttuynia Cordata Extract
• Coccinia Indica Fruit Extract
• Citric Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Tranexamic Acid
• Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate
• Gluconolactone
• Panthenol
• Allantoin
• Beta-Glucan
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Polysorbate 60
• Disodium Phosphate
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Phosphate
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate

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: 폴리솔베이트60

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 29 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 of them hold 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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