ZEROID
ZEROID Foaming Cleanser
Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read
Read on 2026-09-05
What is this product?
ZEROID's Foaming Cleanser is a foam wash aimed at dry and sensitive skin that wants lather without the tight, stripped feeling afterwards. Four gentle surfactants run back to back at positions 2 through 5 of its 17-ingredient label, and the rest of the list is humectants closing on a synthetic pseudo-ceramide, with no fragrance and no alcohol anywhere on it. ZEROID publishes no concentration and no pH for it, and no consumer review count is attached to it.
What makes it different?
Two things stand out. It puts four humectants beyond glycerin into a rinse-off foam, 베타인, 하이드록시에틸우레아, 소듐피씨에이 and 소듐하이알루로네이트, and ends on a synthetic pseudo-ceramide, which is more moisturising machinery than a foam usually carries. And its formula history is on the record: when ZEROID dropped an orange extract from the 2017 production run it published the old 14-ingredient list alongside the notice, so you can see what changed since 2017, which almost no brand lets you do.
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
- Disodium Lauryl Sulfosuccinate
- Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate
- Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate
- Coco-Glucoside
- Glycerin
- 1,2-Hexanediol
- Betaine
- Sodium Chloride
- Hydroxyethyl Urea
- Citric Acid
- Hydroxyacetophenone
- Disodium EDTA
- Hexylene Glycol
- Sodium PCA
- Sodium Hyaluronate
- Myristoyl/Palmitoyl Oxostearamide/Arachamide MEA
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 3 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.
Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.
backed by evidence1
- From the June 2017 production lot onwards, bitter orange extract among the ingredients of 'Zeroid Foaming Cleanser' can no longer be used owing to circumstances at the raw material supplier.
Korean original
2017년 6월 생산분부터 '제로이드 포밍클렌저'의 성분 중 비터오렌지추출물 이 원료 공급사의 사정으로 더이상 사용하지 못하게 되었습니다.
partly backed1
- A low irritation moisturising cleanser in a foam texture for dry and sensitive skin
Korean original
건조하고 민감한 피부를 위한 거품 제형 저자극 보습 세정제
no evidence1
- 'Zeroid Pimprove Foaming Cleanser', a foam cleanser for oily sensitive skin, released
Korean original
지성민감성 피부용 거품 세안제 '제로이드 핌프로브 포밍클렌저' 출시
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.
What else is worth seeing?
Products we read alongside this one.
Which articles cover it?
Articles on this site that write about this product.
- Building a routine by subtraction when your skin reacts to thingsSensitive skin is a list of things you reacted to, not a type. Five Korean products chosen for what is absent, and where fragrance-free is not enough.
- The claim is true. It is just not about this productFive pages where the sentence was quoted correctly and still described something else: a sibling jar, a two-item set, or a shop's own spec grid.