PURIPIA Metabiome Toner Pad

What is this product?

A 60-sheet, 180ml ferment-led toner pad with a two-sided construction, carrying Korea's two-function cosmetic declaration for brightening and wrinkles. The label opens with 락토바실러스발효물 ahead of water and holds five ferment entries in 31, with 나이아신아마이드 at 9 and 아데노신 at 20 behind the filing. It contains no AHA, no BHA and no PHA, so every exfoliation figure on its page comes from wiping with the embossed side. The brand publishes six human-application results with named laboratories and a panel size of twenty, plus a primary irritation report showing a zero index, and three of those published figures contradict other figures on the same page: 61.53 against 60.53 percent for exfoliation, twenty against thirty subjects for the irritation study, and a satisfaction row printed at 132 percent. The strain narrative of ten probiotics and seven Lactobacillus cannot be rebuilt from the label at any level. Five ester and lipid entries put this outside a first choice for Malassezia-reactive skin.

What makes it different?

Two things separate this from its shelf, and the second is a caution rather than a feature. The first is that the formula is genuinely ferment-led rather than ferment-flavoured: 락토바실러스발효물 is printed at position 1, ahead of 정제수, and four of the first six entries are ferments, which is a real ordering fact rather than a marketing one. The second is that this page publishes more numbers than its neighbours and contradicts itself in three of them, all visible without leaving the page. A reader who wants documented figures will find them here; a reader who assumes published figures are internally consistent should not.

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 1 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Lactobacillus Ferment
• Water
• Methylpropanediol
• Streptococcus Thermophilus Ferment
• Saccharomyces Ferment
• 바실러스발효물
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Glycerin
• Niacinamide
• Glycereth-26
• Butylene Glycol
• Saccharide Hydrolysate
• Diphenyl Dimethicone
• Triethylhexanoin
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Glycereth-25 PCA Isostearate
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Allantoin
• Adenosine
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Polyglyceryl-10 Oleate
• Disodium EDTA
• Tromethamine
• Carbomer
• Panthenol
• Cyperus Rotundus Root Extract
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Ceramide NP
• Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate
• Taraxacum Officinale (Dandelion) Leaf Extract

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: 트라이에틸헥사노인, 글리세레스-25피씨에이아이소스테아레이트, 하이드로제네이티드레시틴, 폴리글리세릴-10올리에이트, 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이글리세라이드

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 50 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 8 of them hold up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

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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