SOME BY MI AHA BHA PHA 30 DAYS MIRACLE TONER

What is this product?

A Korean daily exfoliating and calming toner from SOME BY MI, sold as a 150 ml bottle from the brand's own storefront. The statutory panel files it as a dual brightening and anti wrinkle functional cosmetic, with niacinamide fifth and adenosine sixteenth in a 27 entry list. Salicylic acid, lactobionic acid and citric acid are all printed with their levels, 100, 100 and 500 parts per million, so this is not an acid free toner, and the three acids are present at low levels. Tea tree leaf water sits sixth; the bottle label adds tea tree 10,000 ppm and niacinamide 2 percent, figures that are not in the statutory list. No fragrance entry and no drying alcohol are listed, but peppermint oil, an essential oil, is the last entry. The brand's sebum result comes from use together with two other products from the line, and its irritation, non comedogenic and satisfaction figures are printed without a test design. No pH is stated. No English ingredient list appears. No lived use reports were collected.

What makes it different?

The acids are named in the product name and printed with levels in the statutory list: salicylic acid and lactobionic acid at 100 ppm each and citric acid at 500 ppm, so a reader can see how light the exfoliating load is. It pairs that with a dual brightening and anti wrinkle filing on niacinamide and adenosine and a twenty item free from list that checks out against the printed entries. The trade-offs: peppermint oil is the last entry, the sebum figure belongs to a three product regimen, and the irritation, non comedogenic and satisfaction figures carry no test design.

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 4 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• 나이아신 아마이드
• Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Water
• Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate
• Carica Papaya (Papaya) Fruit Extract
• 에스큘렌타렌즈콩씨추출물
• Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Extract
• Nelumbium Speciosum Flower Extract
• 금사연둥지추출물
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Fructan
• Allantoin
• Adenosine
• Hydroxyethyl Urea
• Xylitol
• Salicylic Acid
• Lactobionic Acid
• Citric Acid
• Sodium Citrate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Benzyl Glycol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• 라즈베리케톤
• Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil

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: 페퍼민트오일, 살리실릭애씨드

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 26 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.

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