CELORABY Potension Pore Remover Serum

What is this product?

CELORABY's 포텐션 모공 리무버 세럼 is a 30ml Korean pore-treatment serum whose 31-item label is more informative than its marketing. 변성알코올 sits at position 6, above every active, which is what produces the instant tightening the brand sells as a one-application result; salicylic acid at 10 is the only exfoliant and is capped low by Korean leave-on limits that the label does not print; niacinamide at 7 is the ingredient with the strongest published claim on pore appearance. Eight of the 31 entries are botanical extracts, and there is no oil, fatty alcohol or wax anywhere, making this a water-based gel with no lipid counterweight to the alcohol. The brand's 20,000ppm patented-ingredient claim names a quantity without naming the ingredient, and no entry on the label carries an amount. The Olive Young record confirms a completed functional-cosmetic filing without naming which function it covers. Fragrance-free by the disclosed list.

What makes it different?

Denatured alcohol at position 6 of 31, above every active in the formula, is the defining structural fact and the one the marketing never mentions while depending on it for the headline sensation. Against that, the actives are conventional and low-placed: a single BHA at 10 under a regulatory leave-on ceiling, niacinamide at 7, adenosine at 17. The formula is entirely lipid-free, with no oil, wax or fatty alcohol at any position, so it carries no counterweight to its own solvent. A citrate buffer, citric acid at 16 and sodium citrate at 26, means the pH was deliberately chosen and never published, which is the figure that decides whether the salicylic acid is in an active form 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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Glycerin
• Butylene Glycol
• Propanediol
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Alcohol Denat.
• Niacinamide
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Panthenol
• Salicylic Acid
• Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Flower Extract
• Pueraria Lobata Root Extract
• Pinus Palustris Leaf Extract
• Ulmus Davidiana Root Extract
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Citric Acid
• Adenosine
• Betaine
• Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate
• Taraxacum Officinale (Dandelion) Leaf Extract
• Glucose
• Hydrangea Macrophylla Leaf Extract
• Centella Asiatica Leaf Extract
• Cellulose Gum
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Sodium Citrate
• Zea Mays (Corn) Kernel Extract
• Glycereth-25 PCA Isostearate
• Xanthan Gum
• Fructan
• Disodium EDTA

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: Glycereth-25 PCA Isostearate, Salicylic Acid

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 5 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.

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.

• CELORABY 4GF Derma Repair Hydro SerumThe gentler one of the two
• MEDICUBE Zero Pore One Day CreamAnother product in the same category