TOUN28 PURIFYING +PORE CARE FACE WASH FOR SENSITIVE SKIN

What is this product?

TOUN28 S8 유황+소금 is a pressed solid face cleansing bar from a Korean brand that builds its range around package free bars. The statutory ingredient block on the currently listed page runs 22 items and opens with coconut oil, water and sodium hydroxide, which places it as a true saponified soap rather than a syndet bar, and closes with butylene glycol, 1,2-hexanediol and ethylhexylglycerin. Salt and castor seed oil both appear as named. Sulfur does not appear under that name anywhere in the block, although the product is sold as a sulfur bar, and a sulfone entry sits mid list without the brand connecting the two. The brand discloses no pH and no concentration. The same mall also serves an older 18 item version of this product on a page that its own product listing no longer links.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it. It is an alkaline saponified bar rather than a syndet cleanser, which is a different chemistry from most face washes sold for pore care. And its headline ingredient, sulfur, is not present under that name in the statutory ingredient block printed on the page selling it.

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

• Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil
• Water
• Sodium Hydroxide
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• 카카오씨버터
• Hippophae Rhamnoides Oil
• 스위트아몬드오일
• Tocopherol
• Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil
• 향기제비꽃/잎추출물
• Dimethyl Sulfone
• Hedera Helix (Ivy) Leaf/Stem Extract
• 아니스열매추출물
• Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract
• Musa Sapientum (Banana) Fruit Extract
• Sodium Chloride
• Butylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Houttuynia Cordata Extract

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 22 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