YBK Houttuynia Cordata One Step Pore Pads

What is this product?

A Korean pore care wiping pad from YBK, sold as a 140 ml jar of two sided pads from the brand's own storefront. The essence leads with houttuynia extract, ahead of water in sixth place, and adds gluconolactone as a mild polyhydroxy acid that the brand markets as its peeling ingredient, camellia flower extract under a printed patent number, panthenol, chamomile and purslane extracts and three hyaluronic forms. No fragrance entry, essential oil, drying alcohol, colourant or silicone is printed; two floral waters are. The page reproduces a 2021 patch test naming this product that found no primary irritation, and a 2024 test on 21 women with pore, scaling, residue and redness figures, all read right after one use with no comparison arm. The vegan fabric certificate shown belongs to another business and prints a period ending in 2022. No level for any active and no pH appear on the surfaces read, and no lived use reports were collected.

What makes it different?

The label order is the clearest distinction: houttuynia extract is printed first, ahead of water, where a landed houttuynia pad from another brand prints it sixth behind water, and this list adds gluconolactone, camellia flower extract and floral waters that the other pad does not carry. The page also reproduces test summaries, a named patch test on this product plus one use pore, scaling, residue and redness figures from a 2024 lab panel, but every 2024 figure is a single use snapshot with no comparison arm. The fabric claims are the weakest layer: the vegan certificate shown is another business's and dated to 2022, and no textile report appears.

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.

Key ingredient

• Houttuynia Cordata Extract
• Butylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• Methylpropanediol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Water
• Camellia Japonica Flower Extract
• Panthenol
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract
• Gluconolactone
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Biosaccharide Gum-1
• Glycereth-25 PCA Isostearate
• Rosa Damascena Flower Water
• Propanediol
• Glycereth-26
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Sodium Citrate
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Disodium EDTA
• Xanthan Gum
• Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Flower Water
• Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Pentylene Glycol

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: 글리세레스-25피씨에이아이소스테아레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 23 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 of them hold 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

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