Ma:nyo Pure Soybean Cleansing Oil

What is this product?

Three named essential oils, lavender, tea tree and orange peel, plus the allergen markers limonene and linalool make it a fragranced product, so treat it carefully if your skin is reactive, and Ma:nyo publishes no pH and no English ingredient list. Its domestic Olive Young No.1 claim is real, reported by a news article covering five straight years from 2021 to 2025, but Ma:nyo shows nothing to back the global No.1 wording it stretches that into.

What makes it different?

Most cleansing oils on this shelf print no amount for their lead ingredient; this one prints it on the label. The other half of the box is the part to discount: a real domestic No.1 record stretched into a global one Ma:nyo does not back up.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil
• Corylus Avellana (Hazelnut) Seed Oil
• Sorbeth-30 Tetraoleate
• Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil
• Vegetable Oil
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Husk Oil
• Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil
• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil
• 식물성스쿠알란
• Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract
• Tocopherol
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• Isoamyl Laurate
• Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil
• Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Oil
• Orbignya Oleifera Seed Oil
• Camellia Japonica Seed Oil
• Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Oil
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract
• Glycerin
• Decyl Glucoside
• Saponaria Officinalis Leaf Extract
• Maltodextrin
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Rice Ferment Filtrate (Sake)
• Limonene
• Linalool

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: Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil, Isoamyl Laurate

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 4 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.

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

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

• beplain Mung Bean Cleansing OilAnother product in the same category
• Ma:nyo Pure Cleansing Oil Deep CleanThe gentler one of the two

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• Olive Young cleansing balms and oils: six first cleanse picksSix Korean cleansing balms and oils from the Olive Young shelf, sorted by what their labels disclose, including which ones are scented and which are not.
• What to buy at Olive Young: ten products we read the label on firstTen Korean skincare products stocked at Olive Young, each one picked after reading the ingredient list and checking what the brand can actually back up.