LEADERS
LEADERS Calming Clear Acne Foam Cleanser
Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read
Read on 2026-09-14
What is this product?
Korean acne positioned foam cleanser from Leaders, 150ml, declared under the Korean functional cosmetics category for relief of acne prone skin. The wash system is soap: palmitic, stearic, lauric and myristic acid at positions 3 to 6 neutralised by potassium hydroxide at 7, with betaine and glycinate surfactants alongside. Salicylic acid sits at 13 and ethanol at 18, both at undisclosed concentration. The calming side is allantoin, panthenol and four centella fractions plus Scutellaria and Portulaca extracts. No fragrance, parfum or essential oil appears in the forty entry list harvested here. Suits oily and congested skin; the squeaky alkaline finish works against dry or barrier compromised skin. No pH, no INCI list and no efficacy test were found on any surface read for this record.
What makes it different?
Two things separate it inside the acne cleanser shelf. It carries the Korean functional cosmetics declaration for acne relief with the notified active actually printed on the list, which many acne styled cleansers do not, and it pairs that with the full four fraction centella set at positions 37 to 40 rather than a single madecassoside token.
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 2 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.
Key ingredientWorth a closer look
- Water
- Glycerin
- Palmitic Acid
- Stearic Acid
- Lauric Acid
- Myristic Acid
- Potassium Hydroxide
- Lauryl Betaine
- PEG-100 Stearate
- Glyceryl Stearate
- Beeswax
- Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate
- Salicylic Acid
- 소듐클로라이도
- Ethyl Hexanediol
- Glyceryl Caprylate
- Tocopheryl Acetate
- Alcohol
- Disodium EDTA
- Hydroxyethylcellulose
- Allantoin
- Panthenol
- Sophora Angustifolia Root Extract
- Butylene Glycol
- 카프릴/카프라미도프로필베타인
- Polyglyceryl-6 Ricinoleate
- Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate
- Polyglyceryl-6 Caprylate
- Polyglyceryl-3 Cocoate
- Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract
- Lactobacillus/Soybean Ferment Extract
- Portulaca Oleracea Extract
- Origanum Vulgare Leaf Extract
- Cinnamomum Cassia Bark Extract
- Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract
- Chamaecyparis Obtusa Leaf Extract
- Madecassoside
- Asiaticoside
- Asiatic Acid
- 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: Palmitic Acid, Stearic Acid, Lauric Acid, Myristic Acid, PEG-100 Stearate, Glyceryl Stearate, Glyceryl Caprylate, Beeswax, Salicylic Acid
Did the ad claims hold up?
We checked 2 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.
backed by evidence1
- 여드름성 피부 완화 기능성
partly backed1
- 피부의 과다 피지와 노폐물을 부드럽게 제거하고 트러블을 케어해 주는 기능성 폼 클렌저
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.