Torriden BALANCEFUL Modeling Pack

What is this product?

Use this when reactive or flushed skin needs an occasional calming reset and you do not mind mixing a powder with water and peeling the set film off: the centella count in its name is honest, with exactly five centella derived entries among its 31 ingredients, and the brand cites a skin irritation test on 30 people returning a non irritant result. Skip it if your skin is dry, because the pack is built on absorbent minerals with diatomaceous earth first and kaolin fifth and has almost nothing to give water back, and skip it if tea tree is a sensitiser for you, since tea tree leaf extract sits eleventh. The claim that it boosts absorption of whatever you applied before it has no evidence behind it. The brand does not disclose pH, and the ingredient statement available here is the one published for the United States market rather than the domestic one.

What makes it different?

Two things set it apart on the peel off shelf. The first is that the centella content is specific rather than gestural: a whole centella asiatica extract plus all four of its characterised triterpenes, madecassoside, asiaticoside, asiatic acid and madecassic acid, run consecutively at positions fourteen to seventeen, which is a more complete cica set than the single extract most masks carry, and it is the reason the five in the marketing survives being counted. The second is the format itself. This is a powder mixed with water at the point of use, which means no preservative heavy liquid mask and a set film built by algin and calcium sulfate rather than by a plastic forming polymer, and the whole formula runs to 31 entries with no oil, no wax, no drying alcohol and no exfoliating acid in it. The trade offs are equally clear: the front half is absorbent mineral, so it takes moisture rather than giving it, tea tree leaf extract sits eleventh, and the entire safety case rests on one three day test on 30 people with no institution named and no report published.

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.

Key ingredient

• Diatomaceous Earth
• Glucose
• Algin
• Calcium Sulfate
• Kaolin
• Trehalose
• Betaine
• Chlorella Vulgaris Powder
• Xylitol
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Extract
• Panthenol
• Allantoin
• Madecassoside
• Asiaticoside
• Asiatic acid
• Madecassic acid
• Dextrin
• Sodium Dehydroacetate
• Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate
• Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Flower Extract
• Gardenia Florida Fruit Extract
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Water
• Glycerin
• Butylene glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• Althaea Rosea Flower Extract
• Nymphaea Caerulea Flower Extract
• Swertia Japonica 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 8 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds 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

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• What does a modeling pack actually do?The rubbery set is alginate meeting a calcium salt. It is real chemistry doing a real job, and the job is not what most pages claim it is.