Where does this wash-off mask go in my routine?

After cleansing, and the rest of the routine goes on after you take the wash-off mask off. If you are adding it to a routine you already like, give it a week on its own first, so what you see is the Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract and not three changes at once.

Is this the Korean-market wash-off mask or a US version?

The Korean-market one, Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract and all. We match this wash-off mask to its Korean barcode before it reaches the shelf, which is the check that tells you which market release you are holding.

What else is on the list besides Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract?

Allantoin, Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate and Beta-Glucan. The order they are printed in on this wash-off mask's panel is the order on the box, so you can see where Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract sits relative to them. Further down the same panel: Laminaria Japonica Extract, Eclipta Prostrata Extract and Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract.

AXIS-Y

Mugwort Pore Clarifying Wash Off Pack 100ml

Name: AXIS-Y Mugwort Pore Clarifying Wash Off Pack 100ml
Brand: AXIS-Y
SKU: 5433088167
Price: 42.5 USD
Availability: InStock

AXIS-Y Mugwort Pore Clarifying Wash Off Pack is a 100ml wash-off mask whose ingredient list carries Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract alongside Allantoin and Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate.

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Suited to: OilyCombinationBlemish-proneNormal

Helps with: Sensitivity and easy flushingExcess surface oil and shineBlemish-prone, easily irritated skinDehydration and tight-feeling skin

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The Mugwort Pore Clarifying Wash Off Pack is a 100ml wash-off mask, used after cleansing. The plant extract it is built around is Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract, named first on its own ingredient list. The same list carries Allantoin, Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate and Beta-Glucan, so the plant extract is not the only thing on it worth naming. How much of the Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract stays on the skin, and for how long, is decided by the wash-off mask format rather than by the list alone. This is the Original Korean Formula, the wash-off mask AXIS-Y sells in Korea, Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract and all.

Key benefits

Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract, the plant extract this wash-off mask is built around
Allantoin on the same list, an active
Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate on the same list, a ferment
Beta-Glucan on the same list, a polysaccharide
Eclipta Prostrata Extract and Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract further down the same list
Pteris Multifida Extract and Cynara Scolymus (Artichoke) Leaf Extract further down the same list

Key actives

7Laminaria Japonica Extractplant extract

Laminaria Japonica is kombu kelp. Its extract carries alginates, minerals and iodine, and it is used as a hydrating, mineral-rich ingredient. The panel names it seventh on this wash-off mask's list, beside Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract.

26Beta-Glucanpolysaccharide

Beta-Glucan is a polysaccharide from oats or yeast. It holds a large amount of water, forms a soothing film, and is one of the ingredients formulators reach for in products aimed at reactive skin. The panel names it twenty-sixth on this wash-off mask's list, beside Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract.

29Allantoinactive

Allantoin is a comfrey-derived compound used to condition skin and soften the outer layer so it feels smoother. It is one of the standard additions to a formula built for easily irritated skin. The panel names it twenty-ninth on this wash-off mask's list, beside Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract.

33Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrateferment

Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate is a brewers yeast ferment filtered clear. It supplies amino acids, B vitamins and sugars, and it is one of the ferments the Korean essence category was built on. The panel names it thirty-third on this wash-off mask's list, beside Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract.

Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extractplant extract

Artemisia Princeps is Korean mugwort, one of the country's oldest skincare and bathing plants. Its leaf extract is used for the look of reddened, reactive skin, and it is the ingredient behind the mugwort category. It is the entry this wash-off mask is named after, and the list carries it.

How to use

Use the Mugwort Pore Clarifying Wash Off Pack after cleansing.
Prep your skin with toner after cleansing. Apply to the entire face and rinse with lukewarm water after 15 minutes.
Rinse with lukewarm water at the time the pack gives, then go straight into a hydrating layer and your moisturizer the same evening.
Once or twice a week. Do not leave it on longer than the pack says in the hope of more effect; a mask past its time works against the surface it is on.

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Artemisia Princeps Extract plant extract: Artemisia Princeps is Korean mugwort, one of the country's oldest skincare and bathing plants. Its leaf extract is used for the look of reddened, reactive skin, and it is the ingredient behind the mugwort category.
Kaolin absorbent: Kaolin is white clay, the mildest of the cosmetic clays. It absorbs oil and lifts loose debris from the surface without stripping, which is why it is the clay used on drier skin.
Dipropylene Glycol humectant: Dipropylene Glycol is a glycol used as a solvent and a light humectant. Its main job is keeping the rest of the formula dissolved and the texture fluid rather than adding hydration of its own.
Bentonite absorbent: Bentonite is a volcanic clay that swells in water. It absorbs oil, thickens a mask, and holds pigments and powders evenly suspended.
Betaine humectant: Betaine is a sugar-beet-derived humectant that cells use to hold water. In a formula it hydrates and takes the edge off cleansers and acids, which is why it often appears alongside them.
Phaseolus Angularis Seed Powder absorbent: Adzuki bean ground to a powder. In a formula it is the physical grain of a scrub and an absorbent that takes up a little oil.
Laminaria Japonica Extract plant extract: Laminaria Japonica is kombu kelp. Its extract carries alginates, minerals and iodine, and it is used as a hydrating, mineral-rich ingredient.
Eclipta Prostrata Leaf Extract plant extract: Eclipta Prostrata is false daisy, long used in Ayurvedic and East Asian practice. Its extract is used as a conditioning plant extract, most often in scalp and hair formulas.
Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract plant extract: Oat Kernel Extract carries beta-glucan and avenanthramides, and it is one of the most reliably tolerated ingredients in skincare. It is used for the look of reddened, itchy-feeling skin.
Pteris Multifida Extract plant extract: Spider brake fern extract, a traditional East Asian herbal plant. It is used as a conditioning extract.
Cynara Scolymus (Artichoke) Leaf Extract plant extract: Artichoke Leaf Extract carries cynaropicrin and other plant antioxidants. It is used in formulas aimed at the look of visible pores and dullness.
Glycyrrhiza Uralensis (Licorice) Root Extract plant extract: Licorice Root Extract carries glabridin and liquiritin. It is one of the classic plant ingredients used for the look of uneven tone and redness, and it appears in almost every brightening formula that avoids synthetic actives.

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Vigna Radiata Seed Extract plant extract: Mung bean seed extract, the nokdu of Korean cleansing powders. It carries starches, proteins and saponins and is used as a conditioning, mildly cleansing extract.
Houttuynia Cordata Extract plant extract: Houttuynia Cordata is heartleaf, and it is one of the two or three anchor plants of Korean calming skincare. Its extract carries quercitrin and other flavonoids and is used for the look of redness and blemish-prone skin.
Cryptomeria Japonica Leaf Extract plant extract: Cryptomeria Japonica is Japanese cedar. Its leaf extract is used as an aromatic antioxidant plant extract.
Nelumbo Nucifera Leaf Extract plant extract: Nelumbo Nucifera is the sacred lotus. Its leaf extract carries flavonoids and is used as a conditioning antioxidant extract.
Hydrogenated Lecithin emulsifier: Hydrogenated Lecithin is lecithin with its unsaturated bonds filled in, which makes it far more stable. It emulsifies and is the standard shell for the liposomes that carry actives into the outer layer of skin.
Sodium Hyaluronate humectant: Sodium Hyaluronate is the salt of hyaluronic acid, and it is what most products labelled hyaluronic actually contain. The salt dissolves more readily and the molecule is smaller, so it sits in the outer layer of skin rather than only on top of it.
1,2-Hexanediol humectant: 1,2-Hexanediol is a glycol used for two reasons: it holds water like glycerin, and it makes a formula harder for microbes to live in, so less traditional preservative is needed. Korean formulas use it heavily for that second reason.
Methylpropanediol humectant: Methylpropanediol is a small glycol used to hydrate and to help water-soluble actives penetrate the outer layer of skin more evenly. It leaves almost no tack, which suits watery textures.
Xanthan Gum thickener: Xanthan Gum is a polysaccharide made by fermenting sugar. It thickens a watery formula into a gel and holds the whole thing in suspension so nothing separates. Too much of it and a serum turns stringy, which is why it appears in fractions of a percent.
Glycerin humectant: Glycerin is the most used humectant in skincare. It draws water into the outer layer of skin and holds it there, and it is one of the very few ingredients whose hydrating effect is settled science rather than marketing. Higher amounts feel tacky, which is why it is usually blended.
Chromium Oxide Greens colorant: Chromium Oxide Greens is a dull green mineral pigment. It is inert, sits on the surface, and is used in small amounts to correct the look of redness in a tinted product.
Charcoal Powder absorbent: Activated charcoal, a very porous carbon powder. Its surface binds oil and pigment, and it is what makes a mask or cleanser black.
Water solvent: Water is the base almost every serum, toner and cream is built on. It dissolves the water-loving ingredients and sets how light the finished texture feels. On an INCI list it is usually first, which only means it is the largest single ingredient by weight.
Beta-Glucan polysaccharide: Beta-Glucan is a polysaccharide from oats or yeast. It holds a large amount of water, forms a soothing film, and is one of the ingredients formulators reach for in products aimed at reactive skin.
Polyquaternium-51 film former: Polyquaternium-51 is a polymer, sometimes sold as Lipidure, built on the same phosphorylcholine structure as a cell membrane. It holds water in a film on the surface and gives a distinctive soft, dry finish.
Fructooligosaccharides humectant: Fructooligosaccharides are short fructose chains used as humectants and as food for the skin's own resident microbes.
Allantoin active: Allantoin is a comfrey-derived compound used to condition skin and soften the outer layer so it feels smoother. It is one of the standard additions to a formula built for easily irritated skin.
Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid humectant: Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid is hyaluronic acid cut into much shorter fragments. The smaller the fragment, the further into the outer layer it can settle, which is why serums stack several sizes together instead of using one.
Butylene Glycol humectant: Butylene Glycol is a small glycol that does two jobs at once: it holds water in the top layer of skin and it dissolves plant extracts and actives that plain water cannot. It also thins a formula, which is why watery Korean essences lean on it.
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Powder absorbent: Green tea leaf ground to a powder. In a formula it is a mild physical grain and an absorbent, and it tints the product green.
Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate ferment: Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate is a brewers yeast ferment filtered clear. It supplies amino acids, B vitamins and sugars, and it is one of the ferments the Korean essence category was built on.
Hydroxyacetophenone preservative booster: Hydroxyacetophenone is an antioxidant that also strengthens a preservative system, so a formula needs less traditional preservative. Korean formulas pair it with 1,2-hexanediol constantly.
Ethylhexylglycerin preservative booster: Ethylhexylglycerin softens skin and boosts a preservative system, which is why it is nearly always sitting beside phenoxyethanol or 1,2-hexanediol. It also cuts down the odour bacteria produce, so it turns up in deodorising products.
Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Oil fragrance component: Rosemary Leaf Oil is an essential oil carrying camphor and cineole. It scents a formula and is a stronger aromatic than most.

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on the list

7Laminaria Japonica26Beta-Glucan29Allantoin33Saccharomyces Ferment

7Laminaria Japonica
26Beta-Glucan
29Allantoin
33Saccharomyces Ferment

Where each key active sits on the declared ingredient list, by entry number. Position is proportion: the further forward, the larger its share.

Worth knowing

Patch test on the inner arm before a first full-face application if skin tends to react easily.
Store away from direct sunlight and high heat to keep the texture and scent stable over time.
Introduce one new active at a time when adding this into an existing routine.

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What skin-care professionals say about the key actives in this formula, quoted from the medical sources linked beside each.

Additionally, it has been shown to improve dry skin in those with atopic dermatitis. It also can be good for those with acne-prone skin because of the antibacterial and anti-inflammatory benefits.
Marisa K. Garshick, MDDermatologist, The Zoe Report
Allantoin can tone down the dryness of the individual cells. It increases the water content of the skin, which means it helps to hydrate and moisturize.
Wilma Bergfeld, MDDermatologist, Cleveland Clinic

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