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MEDICUBE Zero Pore Pad 2.0

Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read

Read on 2026-09-12

What is this product?

메디큐브 제로모공패드 2.0 is a Korean wipe on toner pad sold as 70 pads at 155 g net through the brand's own cafe24 storefront and domestic retail, manufactured by (주)엔코스 for 주식회사 에이피알 in Korea. Its printed Korean 전성분 runs 47 comma separated tokens and the exfoliating stack sits high: 락틱애씨드 fourth as an AHA, 변성알코올 fifth as a solvent, 살리실릭애씨드 fourteenth as an oil soluble BHA, and 베타인살리실레이트 twenty ninth as a second salicylate, with 흰버드나무껍질추출물 at 21. The soothing entries are 판테놀 ninth, 병풀추출물 twentieth and 알란토인 thirty eighth. Seven essential oils of citrus, eucalyptus, rosemary and lavender occupy positions 30 through 36 and 리모넨 is declared last, so the product is fragranced by botanicals rather than by a compound. There is no PHA on this list despite the brand's own model name text naming one; the PHA belongs to the 마일드 variant sold through the same page. The brand's statutory block records 기능성화장품 심사필 유무 as 무 and carries the statutory AHA containing product caution requiring sunscreen and a patch test. No ingredient level and no pH is published anywhere. Consumer topic labels cluster on pore result rather than on comfort. Best for oily or congested skin wanting an acid pad used a few evenings a week with daytime sunscreen; caution for sensitive, dry, fragrance reactive or photosensitive skin, and during pregnancy on account of the salicylates.

What makes it different?

Three things separate it from the rest of the acid pad shelf and one of them is a warning rather than a feature. First, the acid stack is unusually complete and unusually high on the list: an AHA fourth, a BHA fourteenth and a second salicylate twenty ninth, with a solvent alcohol fifth, which puts four active removal mechanisms above the halfway point of a 47 item label. Carrying three acid entries with the first of them fourth is the exception rather than the pattern this category is built on, on the general shape of the acid pad market rather than on any count taken in this repository. Second, the scent architecture is botanical rather than compounded: no 향료 token appears anywhere, and instead seven essential oils run in an unbroken block from 30 to 36 with 리모넨 declared at the end, which is a combination that will read as fragrance free to anyone who filters on the wrong word. Third, and this is the part a buyer most needs to know, the brand's own storefront sells this SKU and a 마일드 variant through one product page with two complete statutory notices, identical 70매 155 g volumes and different ingredient lists, and the brand's own model name text for this SKU names a PHA that appears only on the other list. The product's name carries the generation number 2.0 legitimately as part of its registered model name rather than as a renewal marker, and no brand surface archived here describes a predecessor formulation.

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

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: 레몬껍질오일, 베르가모트오일, 유칼립투스잎오일, 로즈마리잎오일, 라벤더오일, 오렌지껍질오일, 왕귤껍질오일, 폴리글리세릴-10라우레이트, 폴리글리세릴-10미리스테이트, 살리실릭애씨드, 베타인살리실레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 6 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them looks likely, though none are proven outright.

likely, not proven1

  • 엠보싱 + 부드러운 양면 구조로 피부결 정돈 & 잔여 노폐물 케어

partly backed2

  • 모공 속 피지와 각질을 한 번에 정돈해주는 데일리 토너 패드
  • 모공 속 노폐물을 제거해 모공 수렴에 도움을 주는 패드예요. 피부 결을 매끄럽고 촉촉하게 정돈할 수 있어요.

no evidence1

  • 세안 후 첫 단계에서 간편하게 닦아내는 저자극 모공 케어 루틴

evidence says otherwise1

  • 모델명 AHA·BHA·PHA, 판테놀, 병풀추출물

says nothing1

  • 압도적 모공 타이트닝 효과, 1등 국민 패드

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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