innisfree innisfree Black Volcanic Clay Pore Cleansing Oil

What is this product?

A pore-focused cleansing oil built on a lightweight ester base, with charcoal powder, volcanic ash (4,500 ppb) and gluconolactone (10,000 ppb) added late in the list. Best suited to those who want a soft-feeling oil cleanse with mild exfoliating support, but fragrance and fragrance allergens are present.

What makes it different?

The base is dominated by emollient esters such as Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate (first), Sorbeth-30 Tetraoleate (second) and Ethylhexyl Palmitate (third), with sunflower seed oil fifth. Charcoal powder sits twenty-first and salicylic acid twenty-fourth, so the pore-cleansing actives are in the later half of the list. Printed concentrations exist only for gluconolactone and volcanic ash. The fragrance flag list includes limonene, geraniol, hexyl cinnamal and linalool.

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 2 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate
• Sorbeth-30 Tetraoleate
• Ethylhexyl Palmitate
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• Isododecane
• Isononyl Isononanoate
• Hydrogenated Polydecene
• Fragrance
• Dextrin Palmitate
• Water
• 글리세릴베헤네이트/에이코사디오에이트
• 트라이옥틸도데실시트레이트
• Benzyl Benzoate
• Limonene
• Geraniol
• Hexyl Cinnamal
• Polyglyceryl-2 Triisostearate
• Iron Oxide Black
• Linalool
• Charcoal Powder
• Silica
• Citric Acid
• Salicylic Acid
• Gluconolactone
• Triethoxycaprylylsilane
• Volcanic Ash

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: 에틸헥실팔미테이트, 아이소노닐아이소노나노에이트, 폴리글리세릴-2트라이아이소스테아레이트