MEDICUBE PDRN Pink Toning Gel Toner Pad

What is this product?

메디큐브 PDRN 겔 패드 is a 120ml, 70 sheet pad sold under product number 2185, whose statutory name is 메디큐브 피디알엔 핑크 콜라겐 토닝 겔 토너 패드. Despite the toner pad name, the brand's own instruction makes it a five minute leave-on gel mask: pour the essence over dry pad stock, wait for it to gel, dwell five minutes, then wipe. The 58 item list is front loaded with six humectants and carries niacinamide at position 4 and adenosine at 16, with 소듐디엔에이 at 44 and 콜라겐 at 39 both at disclosed trace levels of 1PPM and 2PPM. A retinoid at 52 and a lipophilic salicylate at 45 make this an actives step, not a prep step. The statutory row confirms a functional cosmetic registration but names no function. No declared fragrance, but two essential oils are present.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it. The brand publishes numbers for its two headline ingredients, 소듐디엔에이 at 1PPM and 콜라겐 at 2PPM, which turns the marketing story into a checkable trace rather than an unquantified hook and is the single most useful fact on the label. And the format is mis-named: the product is filed and sold as a toner pad while the brand's own instructions describe a short leave-on mask with a retinoid and a salicylate in it, which changes both the routine slot and the frequency a reader should choose.

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 5 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Glycerin
• Methylpropanediol
• Niacinamide
• Xylitol
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Octyldodeceth-16
• Diglycerin
• Allantoin
• Cellulose Gum
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Sodium Citrate
• Sodium Gluconate
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Adenosine
• Butylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Citric Acid
• Cyanocobalamin
• Anthemis Nobilis Flower Oil
• Pyrus Communis (Pear) Fruit Extract
• Rosa Damascena Flower Water
• 복숭아추출물
• Thuja Orientalis Extract
• 커먼자스민꽃수
• 비터오렌지꽃추출물
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Allium Cepa (Onion) Bulb Extract
• Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Extract
• 살비아추출물
• Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Oil
• Hedera Helix (Ivy) Leaf/Stem Extract
• Cucumis Melo (Melon) Fruit Extract
• Hibiscus Esculentus Fruit Extract
• 카룸 페트로셀리눔추출물
• Corchorus Olitorius Leaf Extract
• Polygonum Cuspidatum Root Extract
• Collagen
• Artemisia Annua Extract
• Nelumbium Speciosum Flower Extract
• Oryza Sativa (Rice) Extract
• Saccharomyces Ferment
• Sodium DNA
• Capryloyl Salicylic Acid
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Hydrogenated Phosphatidylcholine
• Sucrose Stearate
• Phaseolus Radiatus Seed Extract
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Retinol
• Polyglyceryl-10 Myristate
• Tocopheryl Acetate
• Asiaticoside
• Madecassic Acid
• Madecassoside
• Asiatic Acid

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: 캐모마일꽃오일, 로즈마리잎오일, 수크로오스스테아레이트, 폴리글리세릴-10미리스테이트, 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이글리세라이드, 레티놀, 카프릴로일살리실릭애씨드

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 14 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 4 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

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

• MEDICUBE Zero Pore Pad 2.0Another product in the same category
• MEDICUBE PDRN Pink Cica Soothing TonerAnother product in the same category
• UIQ Biome Remedy Toner PadAnother product in the same category

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• PDRN is on forty product names, and the lists actually back it upMost trend words shrink when you read the ingredient list. This one does not. Forty Korean products are named for PDRN and every readable list carries it.