What is this product, and who is it for?

It is a pore clearing toner in a 265ml bottle, made for oily skin with visible pores across the nose and cheeks. A thicker lotion cannot do the same job at this point, because the next step has to wait for it to settle. You can judge it by how the face feels once it has settled and whether the following step glides on.

Where does this go in my routine?

It is the first leave-on step, used straight after cleansing and before serum and moisturizer. Apply it while the face is still damp, because a watery layer spreads much further on damp skin than on dry. Nothing needs rinsing afterwards. If you use an exfoliant or a treatment, that comes after this, not before.

How much should I use?

Two or three passes with the palms is enough for a whole face, which is roughly a small pool in the centre of one hand. Using a cotton round will use two or three times as much for the same coverage. Morning and evening is the normal rhythm. If the skin still feels tight after it settles, add a second thin layer rather than one heavy one.

Can I layer this with my other steps?

Yes, it is designed to be layered under everything else. Put it on first, then serum, then moisturizer, in that order of thinnest to thickest. Give each layer a few seconds to settle before the next one goes on, which is what keeps anything from balling up. Sunscreen and makeup go on last, once the earlier layers have stopped feeling wet.

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Mung Bean Pore Clearing Lha Toner 265ml

Name: beplain Mung Bean Pore Clearing Lha Toner 265ml
Brand: beplain
SKU: 11153180261
Price: 27.5 USD
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A pore clearing toner in a 265ml bottle, made for oily skin with visible pores across the nose and cheeks.

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$27.50

265 ml

$10.38 per 100 ml

Korean-market formula
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Korean barcode and batch code intact

Suited to: Oily skinCombination skinBlemish prone skinNormal skin

Helps with: Clearer looking poresSmoother textureA light everyday step

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How it works

It is a thin clear liquid used the same way any toner is, on damp skin after cleansing. The difference is that it is doing a texture job as well, so it is not a step to double up on. That is the difference from a cream, which is built to stay on the surface instead of settling in seconds. It belongs at the start of the leave-on part of a routine, straight after cleansing and before anything thicker. What you can judge yourself is how the skin feels a minute later and how easily the next step spreads.

Key benefits

supports a brighter, more even-looking complexion over consistent use
supports a plumper, less dehydrated look through the day
preps the surface so what follows absorbs more evenly
carries the intact Korean-market packaging and batch code rather than an over-labeled substitute
layers cleanly into a multi-step Korean routine without pilling

Inside the formula

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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.
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.
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.
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.
Sorbitol humectant: Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol used as a humectant. It hydrates like glycerin with a smoother, less sticky finish, and it adds a little body to watery textures.
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.
Propanediol humectant: Propanediol is a plant-derived glycol used in place of propylene glycol. It hydrates, carries actives into solution, and gives a lighter, less sticky slip than glycerin at the same strength.
Glycereth-25 PCA Isostearate emollient: Glycereth-25 PCA Isostearate is a water-dispersible emollient that softens skin and helps oils and water stay mixed. It reads as light rather than rich on the skin.
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.
Sodium Citrate pH adjuster: Sodium Citrate is the salt of citric acid, used as a buffer: it holds a formula at a steady pH rather than pushing it in one direction. It is also a mild chelator.
Citric Acid pH adjuster: Citric Acid is used in tiny amounts to bring a formula to the pH its actives need, not as an exfoliant at that level. It is an AHA, so at much higher concentrations it can also exfoliate.
Disodium EDTA chelator: EDTA is a chelator: it locks up trace metal ions from water and packaging that would otherwise turn a formula cloudy, off-colour or rancid. It does nothing to skin and appears at a fraction of a percent.

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Methyl Diisopropyl Propionamide active: A synthetic cooling agent that gives the cool feeling of menthol without the mint smell. It is used where a formula wants the sensation but not the scent.
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.
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.
Hyaluronic Acid humectant: Hyaluronic Acid is a sugar chain the body already makes, and one gram of it can hold several litres of water. In a formula it is a humectant that pulls water to the surface of skin and holds it in a film, which is what makes skin look plumper while it is there.
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.
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.
Capryloyl Salicylic Acid exfoliant: Capryloyl Salicylic Acid is salicylic acid with a fatty tail, sometimes sold as LHA. It stays nearer the surface than salicylic acid and works at a higher pH, so it exfoliates more evenly and more gently.
Gluconolactone exfoliant: Gluconolactone is a PHA, the gentlest exfoliant class. Its molecule is too large to penetrate quickly, so it smooths the surface without the sting of an AHA, and it is a humectant at the same time.
Glucose humectant: Glucose is a simple sugar used as a humectant and as food for the ferment ingredients in the same formula. It hydrates mildly and adds a soft slip.
Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract plant extract: Apple fruit extract, carrying malic acid, sugars and polyphenols. It is used as a conditioning extract with a mild acid character.
Castanea Crenata (Chestnut) Shell Extract plant extract: Chestnut Shell Extract carries tannins and is used as an antioxidant plant extract, most often in formulas aimed at visible pores.
Diospyros Kaki Leaf Extract plant extract: Diospyros Kaki is the persimmon tree. Its leaf extract carries tannins and vitamin C and is used as an antioxidant extract.
Papain exfoliant: Papain is a protein-cutting enzyme from papaya. Enzyme exfoliants act on protein rather than on the bonds an acid targets, and they need water to work, which is why they suit powder washes.
Phaseolus Radiatus Sprout Extract plant extract: Mung bean sprout extract. Sprouting raises the free amino acid and vitamin content over the dry bean, and the extract is used as a conditioning botanical.
Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Sprout Extract plant extract: Wheatgrass extract, from the sprouted grain rather than the seed. Sprouting raises its amino acid and chlorophyll content.
Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 peptide: Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 is a six-amino-acid peptide used for the look of expression lines, particularly around the eyes. It is the peptide sold under the name Argireline and is water soluble and stable.
Copper Tripeptide-1 peptide: Copper Tripeptide-1 is three amino acids bound to a copper ion, and the classic firming peptide in cosmetic chemistry. It is blue in solution, which is often why a serum carrying it is tinted, and it is used for the look of firmness and fine lines.
Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate peptide: This is a two-amino-acid peptide, sold as Syn-Ake, used for the look of expression lines. Its structure was modelled on a component of snake venom, though nothing of the venom itself is in it.
Hexapeptide-9 peptide: Hexapeptide-9 is a six-amino-acid peptide used for the look of firmness and elasticity. It is water soluble and appears in peptide blends rather than alone.
Nonapeptide-1 peptide: Nonapeptide-1 is a nine-amino-acid peptide used for the look of uneven tone rather than for firmness, which makes it unusual among cosmetic peptides.
Palmitoyl Hexapeptide-12 peptide: Palmitoyl Hexapeptide-12 is a fatted six-amino-acid peptide used for the look of firmness, usually as part of a multi-peptide blend.
Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4 peptide: Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4 is the five-amino-acid peptide originally sold as Matrixyl. It is used for the look of fine lines and is one of the longest-standing cosmetic peptides.
Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 peptide: Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7 is a four-amino-acid peptide with a fatty tail, used for the look of fine lines. With palmitoyl tripeptide-1 it forms the pairing sold as Matrixyl 3000.
Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 peptide: Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 is a short peptide with a fatty tail added so it can travel through the oily outer layer of skin. It is used for the look of firmness and is almost always paired with palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7.
Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 peptide: Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 is a fatted three-amino-acid peptide used for the look of firmness and fine lines. The palmitoyl tail is what lets it cross an oily surface.
Pentapeptide-3 peptide: Pentapeptide-3 is a five-amino-acid peptide used for the look of expression lines. It is water soluble and is supplied as one part of a peptide blend rather than alone.
Tripeptide-1 peptide: Tripeptide-1 is the copper-free version of the classic three-amino-acid peptide. It is used for the look of firmness in formulas that avoid copper's blue tint.

How to use

Press it on as the first leave-on step of the morning and evening, on skin still damp from the sink.
Two or three passes with the palms cover the whole face and use less than a cotton round would.
Go over the sides of the nose and the jaw, the two places most people leave dry.
Avoid dragging a soaked cotton round across the cheeks, since the pull is harder on the skin than the liquid is.

Worth knowing

Patch test on a small area of the jaw first if your skin reacts easily to something new.
Start every other evening rather than twice a day, and avoid an area that already feels sore.

Complete the routine

This itembeplain Mung Bean Pore Clearing Lha Toner 265ml$27.50
The treatment step of this routinebeplain BHA Peeling Ampoule 30ml$27.50
Cleanse first, so the next step meets bare skinbeplain Mung Bean pH-Balanced Cleansing Foam 80ml$17.50

Total for 3 items$72.50

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A pore clearing toner for oily skin with visible pores across the nose and cheeks, sold in the Original Korean Formula.

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