Medioxyl Medioxyl 5.3% Red Spot Skin Solution

What is this product?

A 30 ml pump bottle spot treatment from the Korean brand Medioxyl, sold on the brand store as a solution against acne bacteria. The printed 39 entry list is an emulsified water base with a salicylic acid entry, a fragrance entry and a long tail of plant and ferment extracts, and the brand names three patented materials by trade name only. It cites a culture plate test, a 20 subject human application test without a comparator and a 30 subject patch test, but prints no counts behind the 99 percent bacteria figure, no baseline behind the 66.7 percent lesion and 81.6 percent severity figures, and no level or pH for the acid.

What makes it different?

A salicylic acid spot treatment whose sales story rests on a plate test against the acne bacterium and three unnamed patented materials, with a declared fragrance entry and with test figures that carry no counts, baselines or comparator on the images read.

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 2 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Worth a closer look

• Water
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• 메틸퍼플루오로아이소부틸에터
• 메틸퍼플루오로부틸에터
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Hydrogenated Polyisobutene
• Butylene Glycol
• Decyl Glucoside
• Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate
• Propanediol
• Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate
• Disiloxane
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• PEG-100 Stearate
• Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Glycerin
• Tromethamine
• Allantoin
• Betaine
• Panthenol
• Vinyl Dimethicone
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Salicylic Acid
• Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Extract
• Fragrance
• Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract
• Origanum Vulgare Leaf Extract
• Chamaecyparis Obtusa Leaf Extract
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Malus Domestica Fruit Extract
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract
• Lactobacillus/Soybean Ferment Extract
• Cinnamomum Cassia Bark Extract
• Castanea Crenata (Chestnut) Shell Extract
• Diospyros Kaki Leaf Extract

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 36 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. Here is how they read: likely, not proven: 3 · partly backed: 16 · overstated ad line: 2 · no source confirms it: 14 · says nothing: 1.

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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