UIQ Biome Remedy Toner Pad

What is this product?

A seventy sheet dual face pad in an aqueous essence, built around a Cutibacterium granulosum ferment extract filtrate printed at 4.8 percent and third on the label, with panthenol and allantoin for soothing and a light acid pair near the end. Consider it as a gentle daily wipe for sensitive or dehydrated skin: no fragrance, no essential oil, no alcohol, no colourant, a ten free list that verifies in full against the label, and an irritation index of zero from a test that names this product. Skip it if the goal is real chemical exfoliation, since both acids sit at twenty four and twenty five and the gauze face does most of the work. Two cautions on the record itself. The concentration of the headline ingredient is disputed by a factor of ninety six between the brand's statutory panel and the search index lineage, and the panel value is carried without independent confirmation. And several figures printed around the product do not hold up: a hundred percent satisfaction badge beside figures of ten, twenty six and sixteen, two of four tests that belong to the line rather than the SKU, and biodegradable carton claims illustrated with another SKU's carton.

What makes it different?

Two, and they pull in opposite directions. Compositionally, a skin resident bacterium's ferment filtrate sits third on the label with a printed percentage attached, which is an unusual amount of disclosure for a microbiome positioned pad and it is the entry the whole product is built around. Evidentially, that same number is the weakest link: the brand's own statutory panel and the search index lineage disagree about it by a factor of ninety six, and the panel is an image with no text layer behind it.

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

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Cutibacterium Granulosum Ferment Extract Filtrate
• Propanediol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Vincetoxicum Atratum Extract
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• 알파-글루칸올리고사카라이드
• Althaea Rosea Flower Extract
• Panthenol
• Allantoin
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Sodium Citrate
• Glycerin
• Citric Acid
• Sodium Phytate
• Pentylene Glycol
• Acetyl Glucosamine
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Tocopherol
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5
• Capryloyl Salicylic Acid
• Succinic Acid
• Caffeine
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Xanthan Gum

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: Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate, Capryloyl Salicylic Acid

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 39 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 9 of them hold 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

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