celimax Brightening Pore Blemish Pack Pad

What is this product?

celimax Brightening Pore-Blemish Pack Pad is a Korea-registered brightening toner pad sold as 100ml with 40 pads and as 175ml with 80, on a stretchable sheet the brand markets for both wiping and targeted 3 to 5 minute packing. Its 32 declared items lead with water and glycols, place niacinamide fifth and tranexamic acid tenth, and finish with eight hyaluronic acid forms clustered in the last third. pH is disclosed as 4.3 to 6.3 and no fragrance appears in the list. The brand publishes eight human application studies from one institute, mostly on a single 21 person cohort over two weeks: pigmentation 8.27 percent, surface hydration 22.05 percent, pore volume 24.7 percent, excess flakes 73.4 percent, texture 16.14 percent, plus a separate primary irritation test on 31 adults reported only as completed. No report is linked and no significance is stated.

What makes it different?

A brightening pad that discloses its pH and registers its whitening function, then attaches its biggest numbers, pore volume and flake removal, to a formula carrying no exfoliating acid at all.

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
• Butylene Glycol
• Isopentyldiol
• Niacinamide
• Propanediol
• Glycerin
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Tranexamic Acid
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Xanthan Gum
• Carica Papaya (Papaya) Fruit Extract
• Citric Acid
• Prunus Mume Fruit Extract
• Malus Domestica Fruit Extract
• Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Fruit Extract
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Sodium Phytate
• Eriobotrya Japonica Leaf Extract
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Mentha Viridis (Spearmint) Extract
• Arbutin
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Tocopherol
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
• Potassium Hyaluronate

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 27 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 4 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?

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