SKINFOOD Carrot Carotene Calming Water Pad

What is this product?

Buy this for a soft daily water step that can double as a five-minute cheek mask, which is what the brand's own instruction describes. Skip it if scent matters: five volatile aromatic oils sit on the label (patchouli, sage, lavandin, mugwort, orange peel) even though no 향료 entry does. The carotene in the name is a trace, disclosed by the brand itself at 1.5 ng inside carrot seed oil at 10,000 ppb, while carrot root extract is stated at 735 ppm. The working part is water, glycerin, butylene glycol and sodium hyaluronate, with beta-glucan and allantoin for the calming side.

What makes it different?

Two things set it apart on the pad shelf. It is a pad the brand itself instructs you to leave sitting on the cheeks for five to ten minutes before wiping, which is a mask usage written into a toner-pad product. And it discloses two exact amounts, carrot root extract at 735 ppm and carrot seed oil at 10,000 ppb with a stated 1.5 ng of beta-carotene, on a label that leaves everything else undisclosed.

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
• Glycerin
• Butylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• C12-14 Alketh-12
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Sodium Citrate
• Daucus Carota Sativa (Carrot) Root Extract
• Sodium Phytate
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Citric Acid
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Beta-Glucan
• Allantoin
• Saccharide Hydrolysate
• Maltodextrin
• Daucus Carota Sativa (Carrot) Seed Oil
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• Pogostemon Cablin Oil
• Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Oil
• Lavandula Hybrida Oil
• Artemisia Vulgaris Oil
• Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil
• Undaria Pinnatifida Extract
• 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: Pogostemon Cablin Oil, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Oil, Lavandula Hybrida Oil, Artemisia Vulgaris Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Oil, Olea Europaea Fruit Oil

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.

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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