PONGDANG
PONGDANG Pore Deep Clean Bubble Cleanser
Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read
Read on 2026-09-07
What is this product?
Worth it for oily, congested skin that wants a fragranced wash with an acid in it; avoid it if fragrance is a problem, because this label carries four essential oils and six named allergens. PONGDANG Pore Deep Clean Bubble Cleanser is a rinse-off Korean face wash whose 43-item statutory list runs on 소듐C14-16올레핀설포네이트 with 소듐라우로일글루타메이트, 소듐코코일알라니네이트 and 코코-베타인 alongside it, so there is no soap pair and no alkaline saponification anywhere in it. 살리실릭애씨드 is printed tenth, which makes the pore claim mechanistically real, though the level is undisclosed and a rinse-off is the weakest way to deliver a BHA. A xylitol humectant trio, 사카라이드하이드롤리세이트, 편백잎추출물 and a long botanical tail fill the rest; no hyaluronate appears on the list. No pH is published, and the two surfaces that state the functional-cosmetic filing disagree with each other, so no efficacy claim here rests on it. There is no review population here at all: the ranking snapshot does not carry this product, and the readable retailer shows zero reviews.
What makes it different?
Two things separate it on this shelf. It puts a real salicylic acid into a foam cleanser that is not sold as an acid product, which makes it a pore cleanser with a mechanism rather than a pore cleanser with a word. And it carries an unusually large aromatic block for a face wash, four essential oils plus six allergens named individually on the label, which is the single most useful screening fact about it and is not something the product name or the category listing tells a shopper.
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 4 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.
Key ingredientWorth a closer look
- Water
- Glycerin
- Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate
- Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate
- 소듐코코일알라니네이트
- Coco-Betaine
- Butylene Glycol
- C12-14 Alketh-12
- Sodium Chloride
- Salicylic Acid
- Saccharide Hydrolysate
- Potassium Benzoate
- Limonene
- Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil
- Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
- Disodium EDTA
- Chamaecyparis Obtusa Leaf Extract
- Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil
- Linalool
- Xylitylglucoside
- Anhydroxylitol
- Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Oil
- Ocimum Basilicum (Basil) Oil
- 1,2-Hexanediol
- Xylitol
- Citronellol
- Glucose
- Geraniol
- Citral
- 인디고추출물
- Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract
- Origanum Vulgare Leaf Extract
- Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Fruit Extract
- Ulmus Davidiana Root Extract
- Pueraria Lobata Root Extract
- Pinus Palustris Leaf Extract
- Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Extract
- 감국추출물
- Castanea Crenata (Chestnut) Shell Extract
- Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
- 원추리꽃추출물
- Myosotis Sylvatica Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract
- Eugenol
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: 오렌지껍질오일, 라벤더오일, 센티드제라늄꽃오일, 바질오일, 올리브오일, 살리실릭애씨드
Did the ad claims hold up?
We checked 2 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.
Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.
overstated ad line1
- Pore Deep Clean
Korean original
포어 딥 클린
no evidence1
- For all skin types
Korean original
모든 피부용
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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