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The Face Shop Rice Water Bright Cleansing Foam Versus Torriden Balanceful Cica Cleansing Gel

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

Updated on December 19, 2023

Overview

What they are

These products are both face cleansers. They have a total of 5 ingredients in common

Suited For

They're both likely to be good for anti aging, dry skin, brightening skin, scar healing and dark spots

Free From

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

What's Inside

They both contain oils

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Ingredient Info

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About this product

About this product

At a glance

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Benefits

Concerns

Key Ingredients

Benefits

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Ingredients Side-by-side

found in both products
Balanceful Cica Cleansing Gel

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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Cleansing, Skin Conditioning

Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate is a surfactant and helps cleanse skin. It is created from the fatty acids of coconut oil.

Surfactants help rinse oil, dirt, and other pollutants easily from skin. It has a faint fruit-like scent.

Masking

Chances are, you eat sodium chloride every day. Sodium Chloride is also known as table salt.

This ingredient has many purposes in skincare: thickener, emulsifier, and exfoliator.

You'll most likely find this ingredient in cleansers where it is used to create a gel-like texture. As an emulsifier, it also prevents ingredients from separating.

There is much debate on whether this ingredient is comedogenic. The short answer - comedogenic ratings don't tell the whole story. Learn more about comegodenic ratings here.

The concensus about this ingredient causing acne seems to be divided. Research is needed to understand if this ingredient does cause acne.

Scrubs may use salt as the primary exfoliating ingredient.

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Emulsifying, Skin Conditioning, Solvent

Hexylene Glycol is a surfactant. Glycols are a class of alcohols. Hexylene Glycol is a surfactant and emulsifier.

As a surfactant, Hexylene Glycol helps gather dirt and oil on your skin to be washed away.

As an emulsifier, Hexylene Glycol helps keep water and oil together. This prevents them from separating in a product. Hexylene Glycol also thins out the texture of a product by lessening viscosity.

Hexylene Glycol has a small molecular weight.

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When to use

381 Routines
44% use in am
56% use in pm
97% use every day
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41% use in am
59% use in pm
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Reviews

Here's what our community thinks

The Face Shop Rice Water Bright Cleansing Foam 28 ingredients

4.3 /5
from 6 ratings
Great Value (3) Works Well (3) Drying (1)
Roseblushbliss's avatar

Roseblushbliss

1 year ago
Review

I have been faithful to this for years. Sure I’m more conservative than most because of my sensitive skin but this product just works and leaves me with no regrets. My dry, dehydrated, and sensitive skin has no complaints about this.

Cleans well without being stripping and you can get it at quite affordable prices these days, at least for size value. I think it’s even moisturising without Show more

#great value
#hydrating
#light scent
#works well
mirawr520's avatar

mimi

4 days ago
Review

it’s decent, served me well initially but after my skin barrier was compromised because of the weather, it hurt a lot to wash my face with this but it does help to keep it clean and haven’t experienced breaking out with it. will probably switch to a more gentle one for my skin type though

#great value
#drying
#no scent
#works well

Torriden Balanceful Cica Cleansing Gel 42 ingredients

4.3 /5
from 4 ratings
Broke Me Out (1) Drying (1) Hydrating (1)
basmahkettat's avatar

basmah kettat

3 months ago
Review

1st use after oil cleanser and it dried my skin and burned the area around my nose and cheeks it was red and irritated
İ have sensitive/dry skin
——- update:
Since i spent money on it now i use pea size enough to remove the oil cleanser but not enough to strip my skin as i had damaged my barrier with over exfoliating since my skin gets flaky…
Maybe it will work better later when i fix this Show more

#hydrating
#light
#light scent
lizpurev's avatar

Liz Purev

5 months ago
Review

This seems to work for people with oily skin but it didn’t do well for my dry skin. I’d say it foamed up surprisingly nice and had a nice texture, unfortunately it dried me out😭😭

#drying
#broke me out
#no scent
#works well