SKINFOOD Acorn Pore Peptide Pad

What is this product?

A 250g, 60 pad wipe on toner pad from SKINFOOD, notified as a dual function cosmetic for whitening and wrinkle improvement, with niacinamide and adenosine present as the notified actives. The statutory panel prints 45 ingredients and, unusually, carries three concentrations inside the ingredient string itself: acorn extract at 2,060 ppm with ellagic acid at 5,000 ppb, hydrolysed lupine protein at 20,000 ppb and palmitoyl tripeptide-5 at 3,300 ppb. Ethanol sits at position 5 and six essential oils are present, neither of which the marketing mentions. A two week human application study at a named institution reports pore count, volume, area and depth reductions plus a 1.34 percent elasticity change, with all three timepoints published and the pore effects labelled temporary by the brand, but the subject count is absent from every surface. The irritation test is referenced as completed with no result. No INCI list and no pH figure were found on the surfaces read for this record.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it. It is a notified dual function cosmetic, so a regulator reviewed whitening and wrinkle data rather than the brand only asserting them. And three ingredient concentrations are printed inside the statutory ingredient string, including a marker compound level for the headline botanical, which is a level of disclosure pad products rarely put in the legal field itself.

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 3 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Propanediol
• Glycerin
• Alcohol
• Niacinamide
• Gluconolactone
• Sodium Citrate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Tromethamine
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• 도토리추출물
• PPG-13-Decyltetradeceth-24
• Allantoin
• Adenosine
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Extract
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Citric Acid
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• 에난티아클로란타껍질추출물
• Sodium Phytate
• Dextrin
• Beta-Glucan
• Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Extract
• Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Oil
• Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Oil
• 발삼아미리스껍질오일
• Hydrolyzed Lupine Protein
• Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Oil
• Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer
• Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Oil
• Pueraria Lobata Root Extract
• Ulmus Davidiana Root Extract
• Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Extract
• Pinus Palustris Leaf Extract
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract
• Salvia Sclarea (Clary) Oil
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5
• Diospyros Kaki Fruit Extract
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• Castanea Crenata (Chestnut) Shell Extract
• Oleanolic Acid
• Caprylyl Glycol

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: 유칼립투스잎오일, 로즈마리잎오일, 발삼아미리스껍질오일, 살비아오일, 베르가모트오일, 클레리오일, 폴리글리세릴-10라우레이트, 해바라기씨오일

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 39 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 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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