Where does this foam cleanser go in my routine?

As your first step, morning and evening, on a face already wet with lukewarm water. Nothing goes under it: this foam cleanser is the step everything else in the routine lands on top of. 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 Tocopherol and not three changes at once.

Does this foam cleanser contain fragrance?

Yes. The ingredient list names Citral and Limonene. They sit on the panel printed on this page, so you can read the position for yourself before you buy. If fragrance components are something you avoid, this foam cleanser is not the one.

What else is on the list besides Tocopherol?

Tocopheryl Acetate, Glycol Distearate and Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil. The order they are printed in on this foam cleanser's panel is the order on the box, so you can see where Tocopherol sits relative to them. Further down the same panel: Myristic Acid, Lauric Acid and Palmitic Acid.

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Olive Vitamin E Real Cleansing Foam 150g

Name: innisfree Olive Vitamin E Real Cleansing Foam 150g
Brand: innisfree
SKU: 9626934480
Price: 20.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Myristic acid, lauric acid and potassium hydroxide are third, fourth and fifth, so this 150g foam is a saponified soap cleanser. The vitamin E and olive oil of the name sit last.

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150 g

$13.33 per 100 g

Korean-market formula
Ships from California or direct from Korea
Korean barcode and batch code intact

Suited to: NormalCombinationOily

Helps with: Daily face washingRemoving excess oil and light makeup

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How it works

The Olive Vitamin E Real Cleansing Foam is a 150g foam cleanser, used as your first step, morning and evening, on a face already wet with lukewarm water. The antioxidant it is built around is Tocopherol, named eighteenth on its own ingredient list. The same list carries Tocopheryl Acetate, Glycol Distearate and Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, so the antioxidant is not the only thing on it worth naming. How much of the Tocopherol stays on the skin, and for how long, is decided by the foam cleanser format rather than by the list alone. innisfree sells this Tocopherol foam cleanser in Korea, and this is that version.

Key benefits

Tocopherol, the antioxidant this foam cleanser is built around
Tocopheryl Acetate on the same list, an antioxidant
Glycol Distearate and Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil on the same list, emollients
Myristic Acid on the same list, a fatty acid
Lauric Acid and Palmitic Acid further down the same list
Tocopherol named eighteenth on the manufacturer list printed on this page

Key actives

3Myristic Acidfatty acid

Myristic Acid is a saturated fatty acid used to thicken and, with a base added, to build the foam in a soap-style cleanser. The panel names it third on this foam cleanser's list, beside Tocopherol.

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9Glycol Distearateemollient

A wax-like ester that thickens a cleanser and gives it a pearly opacity. It also leaves a conditioned feel behind after rinsing. The panel names it ninth on this foam cleanser's list, beside Tocopherol.

18Tocopherolantioxidant

Tocopherol is vitamin E. It is an oil-soluble antioxidant that protects the oils in a formula from going rancid and works on skin as an emollient, and it is regularly paired with vitamin C because each keeps the other going for longer. The name on the box points at it, and it is named eighteenth on this foam cleanser's own ingredient list.

All products with Tocopherol

19Tocopheryl Acetateantioxidant

Tocopheryl Acetate is a stable vitamin E ester that skin converts to tocopherol. It is used as an antioxidant and a light emollient and holds up better than plain vitamin E in a formula. The panel names it nineteenth on this foam cleanser's list, beside Tocopherol.

All products with Tocopheryl Acetate

20Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oilemollient

Olive Fruit Oil is high in oleic acid and plant sterols. It is a rich emollient that suits dry skin and is heavy enough that blemish-prone skin often does not get on with it. The panel names it twentieth on this foam cleanser's list, beside Tocopherol.

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19 of 20 explained

Water/Aqua/Eau 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.
Myristic Acid fatty acid: Myristic Acid is a saturated fatty acid used to thicken and, with a base added, to build the foam in a soap-style cleanser.
Lauric Acid fatty acid: Lauric Acid is the coconut fatty acid that gives soap-style cleansers their dense foam. It is not well suited to blemish-prone skin at high levels.
Potassium Hydroxide pH adjuster: Potassium Hydroxide is a strong base used in traces to raise a formula to its target pH. In a soap-style cleanser it also converts fatty acids into the surfactant that does the cleansing.
Stearic Acid fatty acid: Stearic Acid is a saturated fatty acid from plant fats, and one of the three lipid classes skin's own barrier is built from. In a formula it thickens, stabilises the emulsion and can be turned into a soap-style cleanser by adding a base.
Glyceryl Stearate emulsifier: Glyceryl Stearate is glycerin joined to stearic acid, and one of the most used emulsifiers in skincare. It holds oil and water together and thickens the result, and it softens skin at the same time.
Palmitic Acid fatty acid: Palmitic Acid is a saturated fatty acid present in skin's own lipids. It thickens a formula, stabilises the emulsion and softens skin.
Glycol Distearate emollient: A wax-like ester that thickens a cleanser and gives it a pearly opacity. It also leaves a conditioned feel behind after rinsing.
Lauryl Hydroxysultaine surfactant: Lauryl Hydroxysultaine is a mild secondary surfactant that keeps foaming even in hard water and at low pH.
Limonene fragrance component: Limonene is the citrus-peel aromatic. It appears here because EU labelling requires 26 fragrance components to be named individually rather than hidden inside "fragrance", and it is one of them.
Sodium Chloride thickener: Sodium Chloride is salt. In a cleanser it thickens the liquid; in a mask or essence it balances the mineral content of the water phase. It has no active role.

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Sodium Metaphosphate chelator: A phosphate salt that ties up metal ions in water. It also stops the calcium and magnesium in hard water from flattening a cleanser foam.
Citrus Limon Peel Oil fragrance: Cold-pressed lemon peel oil. Citrus peel oils carry limonene and can make skin more sensitive to sunlight, which is why leave-on formulas use them sparingly.
Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Oil fragrance component: Sweet Orange Peel Oil is a citrus essential oil carrying limonene. It scents a formula, and limonene is one of the components EU labelling names separately.
Citral fragrance component: Citral is a sharp lemon aromatic found in lemongrass and citrus oils. It is one of the 26 fragrance components EU labelling requires to be named.
Tocopherol antioxidant: Tocopherol is vitamin E. It is an oil-soluble antioxidant that protects the oils in a formula from going rancid and works on skin as an emollient, and it is regularly paired with vitamin C because each keeps the other going for longer.
Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant: Tocopheryl Acetate is a stable vitamin E ester that skin converts to tocopherol. It is used as an antioxidant and a light emollient and holds up better than plain vitamin E in a formula.
Olea Europaea Fruit Oil emollient: Olive Fruit Oil is high in oleic acid and plant sterols. It is a rich emollient that suits dry skin and is heavy enough that blemish-prone skin often does not get on with it.

Inside the formula

Ingredients declared

No fragrance

on the list

3Myristic Acid9Glycol Distearate18Tocopherol20Olea Europaea

3Myristic Acid
9Glycol Distearate
18Tocopherol
20Olea Europaea

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

How to use

Work a small amount into a lather with water, massage over damp skin for 30 to 60 seconds, then rinse thoroughly. Use once or twice daily as the first step of the routine.

Worth knowing

Rinse well; a foaming cleanser left on the skin can feel tight and dry.

Complete the routine

This iteminnisfree Olive Vitamin E Real Cleansing Foam 150g$20.00
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The treatment step of this routineinnisfree My Hair Recipe Strength Tonic Essence 100ml$15.00

Total for 3 items$52.50

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The Original Korean Formula foam cleanser from innisfree, 150g formulated with Tocopherol and Tocopheryl Acetate, shipped from California or direct from Korea.

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The Korean-market barcode, unaltered from the retail package.
The manufacturer’s batch code, exactly as the maker printed it.

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What professionals say

What skin-care professionals say about skin care, quoted from the medical sources linked beside each.

People with dry, flaky skin are more likely to see a benefit from using vitamin E because it enhances moisturization.
Amy Kassouf, MDDermatologist, Cleveland Clinic
Pretty much every step of a Korean skin care routine is going to have some component of hydration.
Alok Vij, MDDermatologist, Cleveland Clinic