Nightingale DAILY DERMA CLEANSING PADS MILD

What is this product?

A Korean cleansing pad for wiping off makeup: 70 embossed-and-smooth pads in a flip-cap tub, soaked in a 22-entry water-based essence. Two PEG esters do the dissolving, and sodium hyaluronate, a saccharide humectant and glycols add moisture. There is no fragrance entry; the grapefruit scent comes from grapefruit peel oil, with limonene listed separately. There is no exfoliating acid, and the only acid entry is citric acid as a pH buffer. The one irritation test pictured does not name its product, and the vegan and fabric documents shown cover the pad material. Suits light daily makeup; people reactive to citrus oils or the eye area should take care.

What makes it different?

A no-perfume cleansing pad that gets its scent from grapefruit peel oil, cleans with two PEG esters in a water base, and keeps acids to a single citric acid buffer. It is the non-acid pad in its brand line, with a list of 22 entries against 37 on the brand's Mild Acid pad.

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.

Worth a closer look

• Water
• Dipropylene Glycol
• 올리브오일피이지-7에스터
• 피이지-6카프릴릭/카프릭글리세라이드
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Saccharide Isomerate
• Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Extract
• 클라리추출물
• 히아신스추출물
• 캐모마일꽃/잎추출물
• Borago Officinalis Extract
• Biosaccharide Gum-4
• Centaurea Cyanus Flower Extract
• Citrus Paradisi (Grapefruit) Peel Oil
• Butylene Glycol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Disodium EDTA
• Sodium Citrate
• Citric Acid
• Limonene

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: 자몽껍질오일, 올리브오일피이지-7에스터

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 42 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 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.

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