Isntree Mugwort Calming Clay Mask

What is this product?

A 100 ml rinse off clay mask for sebum, blackheads and pores, with the full 38 entry statutory list transcribed from the brand's own detail image and eight entries carrying printed levels. Six clay and mineral materials lead it, the two lead clays at 17.4 and 6 percent first, then illite, montmorillonite, a carbonate mineral and a trace of Canadian colloidal clay, plus the brand's mugwort extract at 5 percent, two plant powders the brand calls a mild scrub, a willow bark extract it calls exfoliating, and allantoin and panthenol. The list has no fragrance entry, no essential oil, no ethanol, no paraben, no phenoxyethanol and no silicone; its one acid named entry is stearic acid, a fatty acid, but it is not free of exfoliating ingredients. The page cites one single use test on 22 adults at a named test centre in 2024, reporting a blackhead reduction and pore, tone and texture values whose percentage basis is not defined. The brand itself advises sensitive skin to limit use to a few times a week.

What makes it different?

Three things separate it. First, disclosure: eight of 38 entries carry printed levels, including both main clays and the mugwort extract, so a reader can see how much of the headline materials is actually in the jar rather than guessing from list position. Second, a clay mask built as a cream rather than a dry paste, with humectants and a fatty acid, fatty alcohol and phospholipid base alongside the clays. Third, the brand's own honesty on frequency: its product page advises limiting use on sensitive skin because of the exfoliating powders and extract. Against that, the pore percentages on the page are printed without a definition, two headlines claim more than the brand's own test shows, and a featured mugwort leaf extract named in the selling images is not on the statutory list.

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 6 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Kaolin
• Glycerin
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Bentonite
• 쑥추출물
• Stearic Acid
• Panthenol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• 일라이트
• Artemisia Princeps Leaf Powder
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Water
• Castanea Crenata (Chestnut) Shell Extract
• Origanum Vulgare Leaf Extract
• Chamaecyparis Obtusa Leaf Extract
• Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract
• Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract
• Cynara Scolymus (Artichoke) Leaf Extract
• Lactobacillus/Soybean Ferment Extract
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Cinnamomum Cassia Bark Extract
• Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract
• 몬모릴로나이트
• 칼사이트
• Vigna Angularis Seed Powder
• 캐나다콜로이달클레이
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Beta-Glucan
• Methylpropanediol
• Algin
• 마그네슘알루미늄실리케이트
• Cetyl Alcohol
• Butylene Glycol
• Xanthan Gum
• Allantoin
• Tromethamine
• Polyquaternium-51
• Ethylhexylglycerin

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: 스테아릭애씨드, 세틸알코올

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 24 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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