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Here's our complete breakdown comparing the ingredients, attributes, and more of TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser versus TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser .

Published on July 11, 2023

Overview

What they are

These products are both cruelty-free and reef safe face cleansers. They have a total of 14 ingredients in common

Suited For

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

Free From

They both do not contain any harsh alcohols, parabens or silicones

What's Inside

They both contain fragrances

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

Face Cleanser

Face cleansers are used to remove makeup, dead skin cells, pollutants, oil, dirt, and/or clean out pores on the skin. Face cleansers may specialize in having one function (exa. just removing makeup) or may have multiple functions (exa. Removing makeup and cleaning pores).

Face Cleanser

Face cleansers are used to remove makeup, dead skin cells, pollutants, oil, dirt, and/or clean out pores on the skin. Face cleansers may specialize in having one function (exa. just removing makeup) or may have multiple functions (exa. Removing makeup and cleaning pores).

Price

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Buy Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser

Starts at $79.00
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Starts at $7.50

Ingredient Info

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alcohol-free
silicon-free
fragrance-free
sulfate-free
paraben-free
oil-free
fungal-acne safe
reef-safe
eu-allergen-free
vegan
cruelty-free
alcohol-free
silicon-free
fragrance-free
sulfate-free
paraben-free
oil-free
fungal-acne safe
reef-safe
eu-allergen-free
vegan
cruelty-free

At a glance

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Benefits

Hydrating (2)
Redness Reducing (4)
Reduces Irritation (3)
Brightening

Concerns

Drying
May Worsen Oily Skin (3)
Acne Trigger (3)
Rosacea
Eczema (3)

Notable Ingredients

Vitamin E

Benefits

Hydrating
Good For Oily Skin
Redness Reducing
Reduces Irritation
Scar Healing
Brightening (2)

Concerns

Drying (3)
May Worsen Oily Skin (2)
Acne Trigger (3)
Irritating
Rosacea (2)
Eczema (2)
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Ingredients Compared

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Ingredients Explained

These ingredients are found in both products.

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

1
What it does: Skin Conditioning, Solvent
Community Rating: Loved

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. Talk about multi-purpose! If you see this, drink a glass of water. Stay hydrated!

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TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 1.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 1.

2
What it does: Humectant, Skin Conditioning, Skin Protecting, Solvent
Community Rating: Loved

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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TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 2.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 6.

3
What it does: Cleansing, Emulsifying
Community Rating: Very Disliked

Lauric Acid is a fatty acid or lipid. About half of fatty acids in coconut oil is lauric acid.

This ingredient helps hydrate and sooth skin. As a humectant, it helps trap moisture. It also aids in cleaning and enhancing the texture of products.

Emerging studies show Lauric Acid to have antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties. The antimicrobial property helps strengthen the skin barrier by fighting off bad bacteria.

Lauric acid may not be Malassezia folliculitis, or fungal acne, safe.

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TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 4.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 8.

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What it does: Cleansing, Emulsifying, Emulsion Stabilising, Masking
Community Rating: Very Disliked

Stearic Acid is a fatty acid. It is an emollient, emulsifier, and texture enhancer.

As an emollient, stearic acid helps soften skin. It aids the skin's protective barrier by preventing water loss. It also provides a gentle cleansing effect without stripping away natural oils.

Stearic acid may also be used to enhance the texture of products. It can add volume and stabilize ingredients such as water and oil. This can help water and oil ingredients from separating.

Sources of stearic acid include animal or vegetable fats/oils such as coconut or shea. It can be naturally found in butter, cocoa butter, shea butter, vegetable fats, and animal tallow.

This ingredient may not be Malassezia folliculitis, or fungal-acne safe.

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TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 5.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 10.

5
What it does: Buffering
Community Rating: Very Disliked

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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TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 7.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 5.

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What it does: Cleansing, Emulsifying
Community Rating: Very Disliked

Myristic Acid is a saturated fatty acid. It is naturally found in milk fat. Other sources include palm oil, coconut oil, and butter fat.

Myristic Acid is an emulsifer and cleanser. As an emulsifer, it stabilizes a product by preventing ingredients from separating. Myristic Acid helps clean your skin by acting as a surfactant. It tends to gather oil and dirt on your skin to be easily rinsed away.

One study from 2021 found Myristic Acid to have anti-inflammatory properties.

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TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 8.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 9.

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What it does: Emollient, Emulsifying
Community Rating: Disliked

Glyceryl Stearate is a mix of glycerin and stearic acid.

Glyceryl Stearate 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. The human body also creates Glyceryl Stearate naturally.

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TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 10.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 12.

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What it does: Cleansing
Community Rating: Disliked

Cocamidopropyl Betaine is a fatty acid created by mixing similar compounds in coconut oil and dimethylaminopropylamine. Dimethylaminopropylamine is a diamine, an amine with two amino groups.

Cocamidopropyl Betaine is a surfactant and cleanser. It helps gather the dirt, pollutants, and other impurities in your skin to be washed away. It also helps thicken a product and make the texture more creamy.

Being created from coconut oil means Cocamidopropyl Betaine is hydrating for the skin.

While Cocamidopropyl Betaine was believed to be an allergen, a study from 2012 disproved this. It found two compounds in unpure Cocamidopropyl Betaine to be the irritants: aminoamide and 3-dimethylaminopropylamine. High-grade and pure Cocamidopropyl Betaine did not induce allergic reactions during this study.

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TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 11.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 18.

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What it does:
Community Rating: Very Disliked

Peg-100 Stearate is an emollient and emulsifier. PEGS are a hydrophilic polyether compound . There are 100 ethylene oxide monomers in Peg-100 Stearate. Peg-100 Stearate is polyethylene glycol ester of stearic acid.

Peg-100 Stearate helps keep skin soft by trapping moisture in. It helps prevent oil and water from separating in a product. By binding oil and water, it helps remove dirt and oil to be rinsed away.

TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 13.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 13.

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What it does:
Community Rating: Mixed

Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate is an amino acid-based surfactant and cleaning agent. This ingredient can be derived from animals or plants. It may also be synthetically created from fatty acids of the coconut and glycine.

Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate is a gentle surfactant. Surfactants help gather the dirt, oil, and other pollutants from your skin to be rinsed away. It is a mild cleanser and naturally produces foam.

TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 15.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 16.

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What it does: Masking
Community Rating: Very Disliked

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.

Learn more about Sodium Chloride

TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 16.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 19.

12
What it does: Preservative
Community Rating: Very Disliked

Phenoxyethanol is a preservative that has germicide, antimicrobial, and aromatic properties. Studies show that phenoxyethanol can prevent germ and microbial growth. By itself, it has a scent that is similar to that of a rose.

It's often used in formulations along with Caprylyl Glycol to preserve the shelf life of products.

TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 18.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 21.

13
What it does: Skin Conditioning
Community Rating: Mixed

Ethylhexylglycerin (we can't pronounce this either) is commonly used as a preservative and skin softener. It is derived from glyceryl.

You might see Ethylhexylglycerin often paired with other preservatives such as phenoxyethanol. Ethylhexylglycerin has been found to increase the effectiveness of these other preservatives.

TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 22.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 20.

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What it does: Masking

We don't have a description for Chamaecyparis Obtusa Water.

TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 24.

TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser contains this as ingredient number 24.

Here's what our community thinks of the ingredients in these two products.

23% are loved or liked
8% have mixed ratings
50% are disliked or very disliked
19% have no rating yet
26% are loved or liked
7% have mixed ratings
59% are disliked or very disliked
7% have no rating yet

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TONYMOLY Timeless Ferment Snail Foam Cleanser 48 ingredients

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TONYMOLY Clean Dew Lemon Foam Cleanser 27 ingredients

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luluz

1 year ago · Dry Skin
Review

Absolutely not
I have normal to dry skin and using this cleanser was hell, my face felt very rubber-like, not natural, not a good feeling overall...

Absolutely not
I have normal to dry skin and using this cleanser was hell, my face felt very rubber-like, not natural, not a good feeling overall and even made me break out with fungal acne

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reneelovesherskin

1 year ago · Normal Skin
Review

Favorite cleanser!
I love the clean, happy lemon scent of this cleanser. It has a bit of a grain to it which contributes to the clean feeling you...

Favorite cleanser!
I love the clean, happy lemon scent of this cleanser. It has a bit of a grain to it which contributes to the clean feeling you get from using this. It foams well. There are a lot of cleansers out there but I'm really happy with this one. It makes me feel so clean and the smell is so refreshing!

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