PHYSIOGEL 레드수딩 시카밸런스 토너

What is this product?

A 200 ml PHYSIOGEL red soothing cica balance toner from Korea, used on a cotton pad after cleansing. Its 26 printed ingredients are a light water base with butylene glycol, propanediol, glycerin, niacinamide, panthenol and allantoin, plus 마데카소사이드 at 250 ppm and three centella fractions under 1 ppm, with a palmitamide entry at 17 of 26 and ceramide NP and squalane in the back half. No fragrance entry, no denatured alcohol and no exfoliating acid. The brand lists seven 2021 tests (oil, pore debris, noncomedogenic, irritation, hypoallergenic, moisture, barrier), but its oil and satisfaction charts do not match their own labels.

What makes it different?

A wiping toner with no exfoliating acid that prints a 250 ppm madecassoside dose; the same brand's men's calming toner shares 21 of its names but adds salicylic and citric acids, which this one does not carry.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Propanediol
• Glycerin
• Niacinamide
• Panthenol
• Allantoin
• Carbomer
• Tromethamine
• Madecassoside
• Trisodium EDTA
• Sarcosine
• Acetamide MEA
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Beta-Glucan
• Palmitamide MEA
• Squalane
• Sodium Phosphate
• Disodium Phosphate
• Asiaticoside
• Madecassic Acid
• Asiatic Acid
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Ceramide NP
• Hydrogenated Lecithin

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 21 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. Here is how they read: backed by evidence: 2 · partly backed: 3 · overstated ad line: 2 · no source confirms it: 9 · says nothing: 5.

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.

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