Ttingko Niacinamide Toner

What is this product?

Skip this one if fragrance is a problem, because that is the decisive fact about it: the label declares 향료 plus six named fragrance allergens filling the last six positions of a 24 entry list, on a product people with reactive uneven skin are likely to reach for. Choose it only if fragrance is fine and a simple, thin niacinamide toner is what is wanted, with niacinamide fourth on the list behind water, glycerin and butylene glycol. The level is not printed anywhere, which matters here more than usual, because neighbouring toners compete on a stated percentage. No exfoliating acid, no drying alcohol and no oil of any kind. Whether it carries a functional cosmetic filing, and for what, is not established. The ingredient list is a single sourced consumer-review platform transcription flagged for verification, and no review population, pH or size figure was available.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it on the brightening toner shelf, and neither is flattering: it is one of the few products there that names niacinamide in the title while printing no percentage anywhere, and it is fragranced with six declared allergens on a shelf where the fragrance free option is common.

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 3 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Glycerin
• Butylene Glycol
• Niacinamide
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Glycereth-26
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Betaine
• Trehalose
• Carbomer
• Arginine
• Fragrance
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• 비타민나무추출물
• 레몬밤추출물
• Propolis Extract
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract
• Citral
• d-리모넨
• Geraniol
• Hexyl Cinnamal
• Citronellol
• Linalool

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 3 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

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

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