ROUND LAB ROUND LAB 1025 DOKDO PEELING GEL

What is this product?

A 120 ml gommage-style peeling gel from a Korean brand's own storefront, where the whole product detail area is images and the statutory ingredient block had to be read out of one of them. Its 33 printed entries put 셀룰로오스 third, which is the material that gathers and rolls off under rubbing, and pair it with an enzyme at 21 and a polyhydroxy acid at 22. There is no alpha or beta hydroxy acid, no hard abrasive grain, no fragrance entry, no essential oil and no denatured alcohol anywhere in the list. Eight hyaluronate-family entries run consecutively from 7 to 14, spanning fragmented, native and crosslinked forms, which is exactly the count the brand advertises. Two irritation studies are reproduced in the brand's imagery, a Korean one on 32 subjects reporting a mean reaction score of 0.00 and a German one on 30 subjects, both naming this exact product. The brand publishes no usage instruction, no pH figure and no ingredient level of any kind.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it. First, an exfoliation route that avoids alpha and beta hydroxy acids entirely: a cellulose roll-off carrier at position 3, a protease at 21 and lactobionic acid at 22, which makes it usable by someone whose skin will not take a conventional acid. Second, an irritation evidence base that is concrete in a way a marketing badge is not, two separate studies under two different methods with panels of 32 and 30, both naming this exact product, one reporting a mean skin reaction score of 0.00. Against that, the brand publishes no usage instruction at all, which is a conspicuous omission for a format whose whole mechanism is how it is rubbed.

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 ingredient

• Water
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Cellulose
• Glycerin
• Butylene Glycol
• Sea Water
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Potassium Hyaluronate
• Panthenol
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Allantoin
• Glycereth-25 PCA Isostearate
• Propanediol
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Protease
• Lactobionic Acid
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Biosaccharide Gum-1
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Tromethamine
• Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate
• Glycereth-26
• Disodium EDTA
• Pentylene Glycol
• Hydroxyacetophenone

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

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 24 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 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

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