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ilso SUPER MELTING SEBUM SOFTENER

Ingredients and claims, checked

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Last checked September 28, 2026

Buy on Olive Young US
Mid-range for scrubs and peels
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What is it like at a glance?

What the ingredients do

Hydration leads, with 6 of 44 ingredients.

Hydration
6
Moisture seal
4
Softening
2
Skin protection
2

By skin type

  • OilyGood fit

Piboo’s rating from user reports.

Worth knowing

  • Contains essential oil
  • Has a fungal-acne trigger

Made for

What is this product?

Key ingredients
Papain, Carica Papaya (Papaya) Fruit Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract
When
Morning and evening

A sebum softener that clears away dead skin.

Who is it for?

Good for

  • Oily skin with clogged pores
  • Blackhead-prone skin

Less suited to

  • People avoiding essential oils
  • Broken or irritated skin

What's good, and what to watch for?

Good points

  • Centella Asiatica Extract and Madecassoside calm the skin
  • Panthenol adds moisture

Watch-outs

  • Contains essential oil (Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil)
  • If you get fungal acne: Polyglyceryl-10 Oleate, Polyglyceryl-10 Isostearate

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Tap a name to read 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

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

What the claims add up to

Only partly backed:
less visible pores · a smoother skin texture
Don't count on:
less shine
Tests passed:
skin irritation
See each claim, checked (26)

Claims, checked

  • Contains papaya fruit extract and papain enzyme ingredientsbacked by evidence
  • Sensitive skin irritation test completedbacked by evidence
  • Gentle dead skin cell care with fruit & enzymesplausible, not tested
  • Finished gently with added soothing ingredientsplausible, not tested
  • Mild dead skin cell tidying with fruit & enzyme ingredientsplausible, not tested
  • Finished gently with added skin soothing ingredientsplausible, not tested
  • For those who need sebum · blackhead removalplausible, not tested
  • Improvement of old sebumpartly backed
  • Improvement of blackheadspartly backed
  • Improvement of rough dead skin cellspartly backed
  • Overwhelming 100% satisfactionpartly backed
  • The effect you definitely feel with just 1 useoverstated
  • Perfect pore cleansingoverstated
  • Perfect sebum and blackhead removal effectoverstated
  • Perfect removal of sebum and blackheadsoverstated
  • Judged to be a non-irritating product in terms of primary irritation on human sensitive skinoverstated
  • For those who want gentle sebum care without irritationoverstated
  • Surpassed 11 million sales, the No.1 national sebum cleaner!no supporting source found
  • No.1 sebum cleanerno supporting source found
  • Weakly alkaline formula with added scientific principlesno supporting source found
  • The Sebum Remove Complex is absorbed all the way into the poresno supporting source found
  • Weakly alkaline formulano supporting source found
  • Effectively removes acidic sebumno supporting source found
  • SEBUM REMOVE COMPLEXno supporting source found
  • The talked-about sebum care end-game item, Ilsonothing specific to check
  • Refreshingly and cleanly!nothing specific to check

We quote each claim exactly as the brand published it, then check it against the ingredient list and the brand's own documents.

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