YBK Pore Clear Solution Cleansing Oil

What is this product?

YBK's Pore Clear Solution Cleansing Oil is a 200ml self-emulsifying first cleanse that delivers the makeup half of its promise and not the pore half: the brand's one marketing line promises makeup removal and disappearing pores, and YBK offers nothing to back the pore half. It is led by ethylhexyl palmitate and sorbeth-30 tetraoleate with four plant oils and five extracts behind them, at no stated amounts, with no pH published and no fragrance declared.

What makes it different?

Two things are worth knowing before you buy. First, YBK prints its full ingredient list only inside a page image rather than as readable text, so it is harder to check than a normal label. Second, the brand publishes one short marketing sentence and no test data at all, which leaves the legally required label table as the most informative thing it says about this product.

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 1 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Ethylhexyl Palmitate
• Sorbeth-30 Tetraoleate
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• Calophyllum Inophyllum Seed Oil
• Water
• 아르간커널오일
• Camellia Japonica Seed Oil
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Tocopherol
• Butylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Flower Extract
• Pinus Palustris Leaf Extract
• Pueraria Lobata Root Extract
• Ulmus Davidiana Root Extract
• Gluconolactone
• Houttuynia Cordata Extract

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: 에틸헥실팔미테이트, 솔베스-30테트라올리에이트, 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이 글리세라이드, 세틸에틸헥사노에이트, 호동씨오일, 아르간커널오일, 동백나무씨오일

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 2 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.

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