NEEDLY Daily Toner Pad

What is this product?

Reach for this NEEDLY pad if the goal is a humectant-led wiping pad with no oil phase at all, built on glycerin, dipropylene glycol, glyceryl glucoside and betaine, with a soothing botanical trio of mugwort leaf water, centella and tea tree and two mild acids deep in the list. Check the generation before you buy. The list described here is the 310g configuration that the ranking platform and the drugstore records both carry, while the brand's own page at the same product number now sells a 365g renewal, and nothing on file says the two share a formula. Two label facts deserve attention more than the marketing does: the statutory functional cosmetic field records no notified function even though salicylic acid is on the label at position 19 with no concentration printed, and the same statutory block bars use on children of three and under and tells the user to avoid the eye area. Note that the last two point in opposite directions.

What makes it different?

There is no oil phase whatsoever. Screens of all 23 entries against the fungal acne ester families and against rabbit ear comedogenicity tables both return empty, which is unusual enough to state as a property rather than a non-finding, and it is why the humectants at 2, 3, 4 and 9 carry the texture alone. The acid pairing is a PHA and a BHA together, gluconolactone at 18 and salicylic acid at 19, both sitting behind the chelator at 17 and followed by a neutraliser at 20, so they are late-list additions with no printed figures. The statutory block is the most informative surface on this product by a wide margin: the brand's own pages carry no ingredient text at all, and their entire claim output is two hashtags.

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.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Glycerin
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Glyceryl Glucoside
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Allantoin
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• C12-14 Alketh-12
• Betaine
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Artemisia Princeps Leaf Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Extract
• Carbomer
• Sodium Citrate
• Disodium EDTA
• Gluconolactone
• Salicylic Acid
• Tromethamine
• Glucose
• Aniba Rosodora (Rosewood) Wood Oil
• Sodium Hyaluronate

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: 로즈우드오일, 살리실릭애씨드

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 3 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds 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