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innisfree Volcanic PHA Pore Toner

Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read

Read on 2026-09-30

What is this product?

A 170 mL two-layer wipe-off pore toner from innisfree, sold on its own store, pitched to oily and dehydrated-oily skin. The printed list has 15 names: water, propanediol, 1,2-hexanediol and arginine lead, then gluconolactone at 10,000ppm (the brand's PHA), a silica and a clay-type silicate, a volcanic ash and small supporting entries. No fragrance entry is printed. The brand backs it with one-use and six-hour test summaries from one institute on 32 women, but the two dated summaries disagree and its 65 percent oil headline does not match its graph.

What makes it different?

A shake-before-use two-layer toner that pairs a powder layer with a 10,000ppm gluconolactone water layer for pore and oil care; the named volcanic ingredient is not on the printed list and its headline test figure does not reproduce from its own graph.

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 1 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

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

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 21 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. Here is how they read: partly backed: 8 · overstated ad line: 4 · no source confirms it: 8 · says nothing: 1.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

partly backed8

  • Reduces skin waste, blackheads and dead skin cell amount with just 1 use
    Korean original

    단 1회 사용만으로 피부 노폐물, 블랙헤드 및 각질량 감소

  • With just 1 use, improvement figures of 23% for skin waste, 15% for blackheads and 9.8% for dead skin cell amount are presented as product information
    Korean original

    1회 사용만으로 피부 노폐물 23%, 블랙헤드 15%, 각질량 9.8% 개선 수치가 제품 정보로 제시됩니다

  • Even 6 hours after use, it cares for oil to give skin that is even softer than at first
    Korean original

    사용 6시간 후에도 유분을 케어하여 처음보다도 더 보송한 피부 선사

  • The volcanic scoria powder layer adsorbs oil and sebum, and the PHA water layer cares for pore waste and skin texture, helping with all-in-one pore care
    Korean original

    화산송이 파우더층이 유분과 피지를 흡착하고 PHA의 워터층이 모공 노폐물과 피부결을 케어해 올인원 모공 케어를 도움

  • Gluconolactone: Contains 10,000ppm, helps with pore waste and skin texture refinement through low-irritation dead skin cell care
    Korean original

    글루코노락톤: 10,000ppm 함유, 저자극 각질 케어로 모공 노폐물·피부결 정돈에 도움

  • Care for oily skin where oil rises and makes it greasy as soon as it is afternoon
    Korean original

    오후만 되면 번들번들 유분기가 올라오는 지성 피부 케어

  • Skin that was rough, with dead skin cells refined
    Korean original

    각질이 정돈되어 거칠었던 피부

  • A feeling of sebum being tidied up
    Korean original

    피지가 정리된 느낌

overstated ad line4

  • With just 1 use, oil and dead skin cells BYE!
    Korean original

    1회 사용만으로 유분 각질 BYE!

  • Soft, smooth skin that needs no oil blotting paper
    Korean original

    기름종이가 필요없는 보송 매끈한 피부

  • Oil blotting paper BYE, soft even after 6 hours*
    Korean original

    기름종이 BYE, 6시간*이 지나도 보송하게

  • PHA: Through the combination of volcanic scoria ingredient and PHA, pore and sebum care, dead skin cell and texture care (water layer)
    Korean original

    PHA: 화산송이 성분과 PHA의 결합으로 모공 및 피지 관리, 각질·결 케어(워터층)

no source confirms it8

  • Skin that gets smoother every day with a toner you simply wipe on!
    Korean original

    간편하게 닦아내는 토너로 매일매일 더 매끈해지는 피부!

  • 65% reduction in oil amount
    Korean original

    65% 유분량 감소

  • Volcanic scoria: Helps with pore care with Jeju volcanic scoria ingredient
    Korean original

    화산송이: 제주 화산송이 성분으로 모공 관리에 도움

  • A pore-smoothing texture toner for skin where makeup easily breaks down
    Korean original

    화장이 쉽게 무너지는 피부를 위한 모공 매끈결 토너

  • Recycled raw material made by reprocessing discarded plastic is applied to the cap
    Korean original

    버려진 플라스틱을 재가공하여 만든 재생 원료를 캡에 적용

  • Both cap and container use single-material PP, making separate disposal easy
    Korean original

    캡과 용기 모두 PP 단일소재를 사용하여 분리배출 용이

  • Ink containing soybean oil is used instead of volatile ink
    Korean original

    휘발성 잉크 대신 콩기름이 함유된 잉크를 사용

  • Uses FSC certified paper certified by the Forest Management Association
    Korean original

    산림관리협회가 인증한 FSC 인증 종이 사용

says nothing1

  • Special pore care with just 1 use
    Korean original

    단 1회 사용만으로 모공 스페셜 케어

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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