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Round Lab Pine Calming Cica Cleanser Versus Tocobo Coconut Clay Cleansing Foam

Face Cleanser
Face Cleanser
Korean Brand South Korea
Korean Brand South Korea

Updated on April 04, 2025

Overview

What they are

These products are both reef safe face cleansers. They have a total of 8 ingredients in common

Suited For

They're both likely to be good for dry skin and brightening skin

Free From

They both do not contain any harsh alcohols, common allergens, oils, parabens, silicones or sulfates

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Ingredient Info

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About this product

About this product

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Key Ingredients

Benefits

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Ingredients Side-by-side

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Pine Calming Cica Cleanser

Ingredients Explained

These ingredients are found in both products.

Ingredients higher up in an ingredient list are typically present in a larger amount.

Skin Conditioning, Solvent

Water. It's the most common cosmetic ingredient of all. You'll usually see it at the top of ingredient lists, meaning that it makes up the largest part of the product.

So why is it so popular? Water most often acts as a solvent - this means that it helps dissolve other ingredients into the formulation.

You'll also recognize water as that liquid we all need to stay alive. If you see this, drink a glass of water. Stay hydrated!

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Humectant, Skin Conditioning, Skin Protecting

Glycerin is already naturally found in your skin. It helps moisturize and protect your skin.

A study from 2016 found glycerin to be more effective as a humectant than AHAs and hyaluronic acid.

As a humectant, it helps the skin stay hydrated by pulling moisture to your skin. The low molecular weight of glycerin allows it to pull moisture into the deeper layers of your skin.

Hydrated skin improves your skin barrier; Your skin barrier helps protect against irritants and bacteria.

Glycerin has also been found to have antimicrobial and antiviral properties. Due to these properties, glycerin is often used in wound and burn treatments.

In cosmetics, glycerin is usually derived from plants such as soybean or palm. However, it can also be sourced from animals, such as tallow or animal fat.

This ingredient is organic, colorless, odorless, and non-toxic.

Glycerin is the name for this ingredient in American English. British English uses Glycerol/Glycerine.

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We don't have a description for Hydrogenated Palm Acid yet.

Potassium hydroxide is commonly known as caustic potash. It is used to fix the pH of a product or as a cleaning agent in soap. In cleansers, it is used for the saponification of oils.

Sapnification is the process of creating fatty acid metal salts from triglycerides and a strong base. During this process, Potassium Hydroxide is used up and is not present in the final product.

Using high concentrations of Potassium Hydroxide have shown to irritate the skin.

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Humectant, Masking, Skin Conditioning

Butylene Glycol (or BG) is used within cosmetic products for a few different reasons:

  • It is a solvent, meaning that it helps to dissolve other ingredients. This also enhances the absorption of the product into one's skin.
  • It is a humectant, which means that it helps attract moisture into the skin.
  • It helps improve product application.
  • It has mild preservative properties.

Overall, Butylene Glycol is a safe and well-rounded ingredient that works well with other ingredients.

Emollient, Emulsifying

Glyceryl Stearate is a mix of glycerin and stearic acid.

It is used to stabilize the mixing of water and oil ingredients. By preventing these ingredients from separating, it can help elongate shelf life. It can also help thicken the product's texture.

As an emollient, it helps soften skin and supports barrier-replenishing ingredients.

In cosmetics, Glyceryl Stearate is often made from vegetable oils or synthetically produced.

This ingredient may not be fungal-acne safe

Fun fact: The human body also creates Glyceryl Stearate naturally.

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Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer is a synthetic polymer. It is used to thicken and improve the texture of products. Due to its properties, it can prevent water and oil ingredients from separating.

Sodium Phytate is the synthetic salt form of phytic acid. Phytic acid is an antioxidant and can be found in plant seeds.

Sodium Phytate is a chelating agent. Chelating agents help prevent metals from binding to water. This helps stabilize the ingredients and the product.

When to use

112 Routines
41% use in am
59% use in pm
96% use every day
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28 Routines
39% use in am
61% use in pm
86% use every day
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Reviews

Here's what our community thinks

Round Lab Pine Calming Cica Cleanser 32 ingredients

2.5 /5
from 4 ratings
Drying (4) Irritating (3) Great Value (1)
weldon's avatar

Weldon

2 months ago
Review

super dry for me as i have acne prone dry and sensetive skin. However, if you dont have dry/sensetive skin but oily and ACNE this is a super good cleanser for you as it really cleanses deeply. 3/10 for me

#great value
#drying
#irritating
im_arrie's avatar

im_arrie

4 months ago
Review

This improved my skin texture so much. It got rid of the clogged pores and reduced the appearance of sebaceous filaments on my nose.
Although I would say this is would be drying and would irritate dry skin.

#drying
#works well

Tocobo Coconut Clay Cleansing Foam 17 ingredients

1.5 /5
from 2 ratings
Drying (2) Great Value (1) Heavy (1)
RasberryIce's avatar

RasberryIce

1 year ago
Review

I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't impressed by this product at all.
It's very drying (i have combination skin) and leave a sort of barrier on the skin, which is probably residue. It has a strong smell of coconut, that some may like.
Only really positive is that it lathers nicely and a little bit goes a long way.
Basically, I won't be repurchasing and it's probably cause it's not for my skin at all.

#great value
#drying
#irritating
#heavy
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Erthrud

1 year ago
Review

It’s literally soap.

#drying