Tovegan Tovegan Color Food Series Blue Balancing Foam Cleanser

What is this product?

A blueberry-first, soap-based foam cleanser with salicylic acid and guaiazulene, positioned for acne-prone skin that wants a gentle but thorough wash; it contains grapefruit peel oil and fragrance allergens, so very reactive skin should note that.

What makes it different?

Low sweet blueberry extract takes the first slot, ahead of the myristic, lauric and stearic acid soap base softened by sodium cocoyl isethionate and coco-betaine. Salicylic acid at eleventh, caprylyl glycol, guaiazulene at twenty-eighth and a Lactobacillus ferment give it a blemish-care and calming angle unusual in a conventional foam. It is not alcohol-free by omission of drying alcohols alone; the list simply contains none. Fragrance allergens limonene, linalool and citral appear near the end.

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 5 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Vaccinium Angustifolium (Blueberry) Fruit Extract
• Myristic Acid
• Glycerin
• Lauric Acid
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Stearic Acid
• Water
• Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate
• Coco-Betaine
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Salicylic Acid
• Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate
• Sodium Sweetalmondamphoacetate
• Sodium Chloride
• Caprylyl Glycol
• 카퍼피씨에이
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit Extract
• 아로니아열매추출물
• 나비콩꽃추출물
• 서양자두추출물
• 스피룰리나플라텐시스추출물
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Disodium EDTA
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Citrus Paradisi (Grapefruit) Peel Oil
• Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate
• Guaiazulene
• Limonene
• Linalool
• Citral

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: 자몽껍질오일, 미리스틱애씨드, 라우릭애씨드, 스테아릭애씨드, 살리실릭애씨드

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 2 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.

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