Name: Round Lab Birch Moisture Cleansing Pad
Brand: Round Lab

What is this product?

Round Lab's Birch Moisture Cleansing Pad is really a wipe-on essence that cleanses, not a remover: 60 pads, 210 by volume, on a glycol base you are told not to rinse away, with two polyglyceryl esters doing the washing and no sulfate, no soap, no betaine and no oil anywhere on its twenty-seven ingredients. That gentleness costs removal power, and Round Lab's own cited test shows it, because one of its four percentage endpoints leaves roughly a fifth of applied sunscreen on the face, which undercuts the unqualified makeup-removal wording on the same page. Two ingredients the marketing never names sit low on the list and stay on your skin: capryloyl salicylic acid, a keratolytic, and unbuffered ascorbic acid.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it. First, the cleansing system is entirely nonionic and entirely polyglyceryl, four polyglyceryl esters and one succinate solvent, with no sulfate, no soap, no betaine and no oil phase on the list at all, a build chosen for low irritation at the cost of removal, which the brand's own sunscreen figure demonstrates. Second, the deck is a leave-on deck in a cleansing format, three hyaluronate forms, glyceryl glucoside, panthenol, allantoin, dipotassium glycyrrhizate, biosaccharide gum-1 and birch sap, laid on by a pad that is never rinsed, so it behaves more like an essence than a cleanser. Round Lab cites a 한국피부과학연구원 human study without a panel size, a date or a protocol, the pad has two faces, embossed and smooth, and the product carries no functional-cosmetic registration. The printed list holds no fragrance compound and no drying alcohol either.

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

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: 폴리글리세릴-10라우레이트 (Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate), 폴리글리세릴-10미리스테이트 (Polyglyceryl-10 Myristate), 카프릴로일살리실릭애씨드 (Capryloyl Salicylic Acid)

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 4 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.

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The dense lattice-type pad holds a large amount of essence, gently removing makeup and impurities and caring for skin that stays moist without tightness even after washing.
Korean original
촘촘한 격자형 패드가 다량의 에센스를 보유하여 메이크업과 노폐물을 부드럽게 제거하고 세안 후에도 당김 없이 촉촉한 피부로 케어 해준다.
Immediately after 1 use, skin moisture increased by 139.07%, helping improve skin moisturisation, and in a 3-type cleansing power evaluation impurities inside pores fell 96.19%, fine dust simulant cleansing power fell 99.33% and sunscreen fell 82.83%, proving outstanding cleansing power and moist hydrating power.
Korean original
1 회 사용 직후, 피부 수분이 139.07%가 증가되어 피부 보습 개선에 도움을 주며, 3 종 세정력 평가에서 모공 속 노폐물 96.19% 감소, 미세먼지 모사체 세정력 99.33% 감소, 자외선 차단제 82.83% 감소되어 뛰어난 세정력과 촉촉한 보습력을 입증받았다.
Birch Moisture Cleansing Pad is an eco-friendly product that uses no animal raw materials and uses 100% naturally derived vegan certified fabric, and it is a weakly acidic pad that not only removes impurities inside the skin but also comfortably soothes skin made sensitive by mask wearing, without irritation.
Korean original
자작나무 수분 클렌징 패드는 동물성 원료를 사용하지 않고 100% 자연 유래 비건 인증 원단을 사용한 친환경 제품이며, 피부 속 노폐물 제거는 물론 마스크 착용으로 예민해진 피부를 자극 없이 편안하게 진정시켜주는 약산성 패드이다.

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Product power in which the large 8cm pad size covers a wide area of skin, so just a single pad shortens the bothersome cleansing process quickly and easily
Korean original
8cm의 큰 패드 사이즈가 피부에 닿는 면적이 넓어 단 한 장의 패드만으로 번거로운 클렌징 과정을 빠르고 간편하게 단축시켜 주는 제품력

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