MEDI-PEEL Green Cica Collagen Clear Gel Cleanser 2.0

What is this product?

A 120ml Korean gel cleanser from MEDI-PEEL, the green cica variant of its Clear 2.0 cleansing line, built on a potassium soap base. The printed statement runs 57 items: water and glycerin lead, then three surfactants in positions three to five including two potassium soaps, with five centella derivatives, three collagen forms, ceramide NP, panthenol and seventeen free amino acids spread through the back half. Eight ingredients carry disclosed figures, none of them required by the statutory notice, though the largest is centella extract at 0.05 percent. The container prints a pH of 5.5 plus or minus one. The brand backs its acne-prone suitability claim with a named four-week study on 20 subjects, and a second antibacterial study whose headline figure its own chart does not match. No fragrance, no denatured alcohol, no exfoliating acid. Best read as a thorough, well-lathering second cleanse for oily and congestion-prone skin, with the caveat that the barrier actives it advertises rinse away.

What makes it different?

Eight disclosed ingredient figures and a printed pH on the container, none of which the statutory notice requires, set against a soap base whose chemistry sits awkwardly with the stated acidity. Seventeen free amino acids alongside three collagen forms in a product that rinses off in seconds.

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 3 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Glycerin
• Coco-Betaine
• Potassium Cocoate
• Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate
• Acrylates Copolymer
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Sodium Chloride
• Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Citric Acid
• Methylpropanediol
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Iris Florentina Root Extract
• Pyrus Communis (Pear) Fruit Extract
• Butylene Glycol
• Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract
• Hedera Helix (Ivy) Leaf/Stem Extract
• Gluconolactone
• 첨차잎추출물
• Ophiopogon Japonicus Root Extract
• 락토바실러스/부레옥잠발효물
• Xylitylglucoside
• 국화추출물
• Anhydroxylitol
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Xylitol
• Collagen
• Ceramide NP
• Madecassoside
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Hydrolyzed Collagen
• Glycine
• Serine
• Glutamic Acid
• Biosaccharide Gum-4
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Aspartic Acid
• Leucine
• Asiaticoside
• Panthenol
• Asiatic Acid
• Madecassic Acid
• Alanine
• Lysine
• Arginine
• Tyrosine
• Phenylalanine
• Threonine
• Proline
• Valine
• Isoleucine
• Histidine
• Methionine
• Cysteine
• Collagen Extract
• Potassium Sorbate

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 24 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 6 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?

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