REVE:AM CICA-SOME Calming Clear Toner Pad

What is this product?

A Korean calming and exfoliating toner pad from REVE:AM's CICA-SOME line, sold as a jar of 80 pads with 180 ml of essence from the brand's own storefront. The statutory panel files it as a brightening functional cosmetic, with niacinamide fifth in a 37 entry list. A lipophilic salicylic acid derivative and gluconolactone sit mid list, so this is not an acid free pad; the willow bark extract the brand calls its BHA is a plant extract, and no salicylic acid entry as such is listed; the salicylic entry is its capryloyl derivative at 17. Seven centella family entries carry printed levels, four of them at 0.001 parts per million. No fragrance, no essential oil and no drying alcohol are listed; three multifunctional entries do the preserving, and two isostearate esters and a lecithin form a small emulsifier phase. The brand publishes single day tests on 21 people for exfoliation and cooling and a four day patch test on 35 people, all naming this product, without a named measure or reading time. A pH of 5.5 is stated, not measured. No English ingredient list appears. No lived use reports were collected.

What makes it different?

Within its brand, this pad is the one that pairs a brightening functional filing, built on niacinamide, with two exfoliating entries, a lipophilic salicylic derivative and gluconolactone; the brand's landed moisture pad prints none of the three. The centella block is shared by name with the same line's cleansing foam, so it is a line convention rather than this product's ground. The trade-offs: the BHA label sits on a willow bark extract rather than salicylic acid, the exosome and particle size story has no matching entry in the list, the calming first place wording borrows a sibling ampoule's award, and the tests are single day readings on small panels.

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

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Niacinamide
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Propanediol
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Glycereth-25 PCA Isostearate
• Sodium Citrate
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Zea Mays (Corn) Kernel Extract
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Citric Acid
• Xanthan Gum
• Disodium EDTA
• Capryloyl Salicylic Acid
• Gluconolactone
• Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Fructan
• Houttuynia Cordata Extract
• Centella Asiatica Leaf Extract
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Glucose
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Polyglyceryl-10 Diisostearate
• Menadione
• Bambusa Vulgaris Leaf Extract
• Centella Asiatica Root Extract
• Pinus Pinaster Bark Extract
• Asiaticoside
• 아이사틱애씨드
• Madecassoside
• Madecassic Acid

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: 글리세레스-25피씨에이아이소스테아레이트, 하이드로제네이티드레시틴, 폴리글리세릴-10다이아이소스테아레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 34 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 5 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.

How we read these lines

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

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