Torriden DIVE IN Toner

What is this product?

Torriden's DIVE IN Toner is a watery first hydration layer with nothing in it to hold that water in: five hyaluronate species at positions 11 to 15, one of them published at 100ppm, and no fragrance, no essential oil, no drying alcohol, no acid and no occlusive anywhere, which suits dehydrated oily and combination skin and layering while dry skin needs a cream over it. Do not read the 5D depth story or the headline figures literally, because the 112.5 percent moisture, 80.76 percent sebum and 13.24 percent smoothness numbers come from 20 to 22 people measured right after use with no testing body, instrument or control named, and a topical hyaluronate does not reach the depth the marketing implies.

What makes it different?

Publishing 100ppm for one of five hyaluronates is unusual openness in a category where toners name no amounts at all, and the support cast is allantoin, panthenol and purslane rather than the acids or ferments that usually ride along. Torriden also footnotes a repeat insult patch test that came back non-irritant on 50 people over six weeks, run by the brand with no outside body named.

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

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Dipropylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Glycerin
• Betaine
• Allantoin
• Panthenol
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Trehalose
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• 2,3-Butanediol
• Pentylene Glycol
• Malachite Extract
• Disodium EDTA
• Ethylhexylglycerin

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 11 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.

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?

Products we read alongside this one.

• Isntree Ultra Low Molecular Hyaluronic Acid TonerAnother product in the same category
• Anua Heartleaf 77 Hyaluronic Acid Moisture Soothing TonerAnother product in the same category
• Round Lab 1025 Dokdo TonerAnother product in the same category

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• Does the 7 skin method actually work?Seven layers of toner does something real and smaller than the name suggests. What repetition changes, and which Korean toners can take it without a problem.
• What glass skin actually is, and the four steps behind itGlass skin is a surface effect rather than a skin type. Here is what the look needs, and four Korean labels we read end to end to check the job.
• How to check a dupe claim yourself in about two minutesDupe videos compare front labels. Here is the four step check that compares the backs instead, run on three Korean hyaluronic acid toners that look identical.