How do I use this cleansing foam?

Use it the first step of a routine, on damp skin. AM and PM.

Can I use this every day?

A cleanser can typically be used daily; an exfoliating step is usually better limited to a few times a week, so check the pack for its stated frequency.

MAXCLINIC

Calendula Biome Oil Foam 110g

Name: MAXCLINIC Calendula Biome Oil Foam 110g
Brand: MAXCLINIC
SKU: 518190680
Price: 30.0 USD
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MAXCLINIC Calendula Biome Oil Foam 110g is an oil that names Calendula Officinalis Flower Oil on its own ingredient panel, sourced as the Korean-market formula.

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110 g

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Suited to: NormalCombinationOily

Helps with: A gentle first cleanse or the second step of a double cleanse

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How it works

Calendula Officinalis Flower Oil is named on the ingredient panel on this oil. Marigold flowers steeped in a carrier oil, which is what a flower oil of this kind usually is. It carries the flower's oil-soluble carotenoids. On this panel it sits alongside Saponaria Officinalis Leaf Extract, Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate and Vigna Radiata Seed Extract. Soapwort leaf extract. It is naturally rich in saponins, so it foams a little and works as a very mild plant cleanser.

Key benefits

Calendula Officinalis Flower Oil named on this product's own ingredient panel
Saponaria Officinalis Leaf Extract on the same panel, the formula's plant extract
Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate on the same panel, the formula's ferment
110 g to a unit
Korean GS1 barcode matched against a Korea sourcing supplier's record for this item

Inside the formula

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Ingredients declared

#13

Fragrance on the list

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Contains fragrance (parfum)

Not on the ingredient list below: denatured or SD alcohol, silicones, parabens, sulfate surfactants, mineral oil or petrolatum and added color.

Full INCI (100): Water, Glycerin, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Olea Europaea Fruit Oil, Potassium Cocoate, PEG-6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides, Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate, Acrylates Copolymer, Propylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Hydroxide, Parfum, Sodium Cocoyl Glycinate, Sodium Cocoyl Apple Amino Acids, Potassium Cocoyl Hydrolyzed Oat Protein, Saponaria Officinalis Leaf Extract, Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract, Sapindus Mukorossi Fruit Extract, Caprylyl Glycol, Stearic Acid, Erythritol, Linalool, Hexylene Glycol, Lactobacillus/Milk Ferment Filtrate, Panthenol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Butylene Glycol, Candida Bombicola/Glucose/Methyl Rapeseedate Ferment, Calendula Officinalis Flower Oil, Tetrasodium EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Calendula Officinalis Extract, Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate, Disodium EDTA, Dipropylene Glycol, Xylitylglucoside, Rosa Damascena Flower Oil, Babassuamidopropyl Betaine, Anhydroxylitol, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Vigna Radiata Seed Extract, Hydrolyzed Ginseng Saponins, Xylitol, Camellia Oleifera Seed Extract, Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil, Cocos Nucifera Oil, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Asiaticoside, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Albumen Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract, Madecassic Acid, Asiatic Acid, Glucose, Pseudoalteromonas Ferment Extract, Hydrolyzed Acacia Macrostachya Seed Extract, Maltodextrin, Yucca Vera Leaf/Root Extract, Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract, Polygonum Cuspidatum Root Extract, Olea Europaea Leaf Extract, Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate, Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Glyceryl Laurate, Xanthan Gum, Glycolipids, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract, Dioscorea Opposita Root Extract, Houttuynia Cordata Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra Root Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Panax Ginseng Berry Extract, Sodium Benzoate, Glyceryl Caprylate, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Rosmarinus Officinalis Flower Extract, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Tocopherol, Tocopheryl Acetate, Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Extract, Sodium Surfactin, Chamomilla Recutita Flower Extract, Sapindus Trifoliatus Fruit Extract, Ceramide NP, Ribes Nigrum Seed Oil, Serine, Phytosphingosine, Alanine, Proline, Gypsophila Paniculata Root Extract, Niacinamide, Sodium Phosphate, Centella Asiatica Oil, Glyceryl Arachidonate, Glyceryl Linolenate, Tropolone, Retinyl Palmitate

Ingredient list read from incidecoder.com on 10 September 2026.

81 of 100 explained

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.
Cocamidopropyl Betaine surfactant: Cocamidopropyl Betaine is a coconut-derived secondary surfactant. Its job is to boost foam and soften the harshness of the main cleanser rather than to clean on its own.
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.
Potassium Cocoate surfactant: Potassium Cocoate is coconut oil turned into soap. It cleanses strongly and sits at a high pH, which is what gives a traditional soap-style cleanser its squeaky finish.
Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate surfactant: Potassium Cocoyl Glycinate is a coconut-and-glycine surfactant used in low-pH cleansers. It foams well and rinses without the squeaky tightness a soap leaves.
Acrylates Copolymer film former: Acrylates Copolymer is a synthetic polymer that forms a film as the water leaves. It holds a formula in place, controls shine and helps a texture stay put.
Propylene Glycol humectant: Propylene Glycol is a small glycol used as a humectant and solvent. It hydrates and helps actives dissolve; newer formulas often swap it for propanediol, which does the same job with a lighter feel.
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.
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.
Sodium Hydroxide pH adjuster: Sodium Hydroxide is a strong base used in traces to bring an acidic formula up to skin-friendly pH. None of it remains as itself once the formula is neutralised.
Parfum fragrance: Fragrance, or Parfum, is a single declaration standing for a whole scent blend, which can be dozens of materials. Regulators allow it as a trade secret, so a list showing only this word does not say what the scent is made of. It is the most common trigger named by people with reactive skin.

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Sodium Cocoyl Glycinate surfactant: An amino-acid surfactant built from coconut fatty acids and glycine. Amino-acid surfactants clean at a pH close to the pH of skin itself, which is why low-pH Korean cleansers are built on them.
Sodium Cocoyl Apple Amino Acids surfactant: Amino acids from apple joined to coconut fatty acids, which turns them into a very mild cleanser. It foams gently and rinses clean.
Saponaria Officinalis Leaf Extract plant extract: Soapwort leaf extract. It is naturally rich in saponins, so it foams a little and works as a very mild plant cleanser.
Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract surfactant: Soapbark extract, rich in natural saponins. Saponins foam in water, which is why this is used as a plant-derived cleansing agent rather than as a botanical.
Caprylyl Glycol preservative booster: Caprylyl Glycol is a glycol that conditions skin and, more importantly, strengthens a preservative system so less of the traditional preservative is needed. It appears in most modern formulas built without parabens.
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.
Erythritol humectant: Erythritol is a sugar alcohol humectant with a faint cooling feel as it dissolves. It hydrates and helps a formula spread without tack.
Linalool fragrance component: Linalool is a floral aromatic found in lavender, bergamot and coriander. It is one of the 26 fragrance components EU labelling requires to be declared by name.
Hexylene Glycol solvent: Hexylene Glycol is a solvent and light humectant. It keeps ingredients that resist water in solution and thins a formula so it spreads evenly.
Lactobacillus/Milk Ferment Filtrate ferment: Milk fermented with lactobacillus and strained clear, which is yoghurt culture in a formula. It carries lactic acid, milk peptides and lactose.
Panthenol humectant: Panthenol is pro-vitamin B5: skin converts it to pantothenic acid. It is a humectant that holds water and leaves skin feeling soft and less tight, and it is one of the ingredients formulators reach for when a formula also contains something harsh.
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride is the light fraction of coconut oil, with the heavy parts removed. It is the workhorse emollient of modern formulas: it softens skin, dissolves oil-soluble actives and absorbs without the greasy weight of a whole plant oil.
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.
Candida Bombicola/Glucose/Methyl Rapeseedate Ferment ferment: This ferment produces sophorolipids, sugar-based molecules that behave as very mild surfactants and emulsifiers. It is used to keep a formula blended without a harsh cleanser.
Calendula Officinalis Flower Oil emollient: Marigold flowers steeped in a carrier oil, which is what a flower oil of this kind usually is. It carries the flower's oil-soluble carotenoids.
Tetrasodium 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.
Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate chelator: A plant-derived chelator made from glutamic acid, used in place of EDTA. It binds the metal ions in water that would otherwise break a formula down.
Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate ferment: Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate is the ferment with the bacterial cells broken open, so their contents are in the formula too. It is a conditioning ferment used in barrier-focused products.
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.
Xylitylglucoside humectant: Xylitylglucoside is a sugar-derived humectant, the third member of the xylitol blend. Together the three hold water in the outer layer for longer than any of them does alone.
Rosa Damascena Flower Oil fragrance component: Rosa Damascena Flower Oil is rose essential oil, one of the most expensive materials in perfumery. It scents a formula, and like every essential oil it is a class reactive skin often does not tolerate.
Anhydroxylitol humectant: Anhydroxylitol is a xylitol derivative used as a humectant. It is almost always part of the xylitol, anhydroxylitol and xylitylglucoside blend sold as a moisture-retention complex.
C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate emollient: C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate is a light ester emollient and solvent. It gives a silky finish, dissolves pigments and UV filters, and mildly discourages microbial growth.
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.
Hydrolyzed Ginseng Saponins plant extract: The ginsenoside fraction of ginseng root broken into smaller pieces, usually with an enzyme acting on red ginseng. Smaller ginsenosides dissolve and spread more easily than the whole extract.
Xylitol humectant: Xylitol is a sugar alcohol humectant. It holds water in the outer layer of skin and is often paired with anhydroxylitol and xylitylglucoside as a hydration trio.
Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil emollient: Jojoba Oil is a liquid wax rather than a true oil, and its structure is close to human sebum, which is why it absorbs so readily. It is an emollient that leaves a soft, non-greasy finish.
Cocos Nucifera Oil emollient: Coconut Oil is high in lauric acid, which makes it a rich emollient and partial occlusive. It is well known to be poorly suited to blemish-prone skin.
Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil emollient: Argan Oil is pressed from the argan kernel and is rich in oleic and linoleic acids plus vitamin E. It is a medium-weight emollient that absorbs reasonably fast.
Asiaticoside active: Asiaticoside is one of the four active triterpenes isolated from centella and the most studied of them. Korean formulas name it separately when they want to show which fraction of the plant they standardised.
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.
Centella Asiatica Extract plant extract: Centella Asiatica is the plant behind the whole cica category, sold as gotu kola or Madagascar centella. Its extract is the anchor of Korean formulas built for easily reddened skin, and its work is done by four triterpenes: asiaticoside, madecassoside, asiatic acid and madecassic acid.
Madecassic Acid active: Madecassic Acid is the fourth centella triterpene. A list that names all four is telling you the extract was standardised rather than simply pressed, which is the difference between a cica claim and a cica formula.
Asiatic Acid active: Asiatic Acid is the third of centella's four triterpenes and the aglycone form, meaning it has no attached sugar. It is oil soluble, so it turns up in cica creams and balms more than in watery layers.
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.
Maltodextrin film former: Maltodextrin is a starch-derived sugar chain used to carry powdered extracts and to form a light film. It also gives a soft, smoothing feel.
Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract plant extract: Scutellaria Baicalensis is Chinese skullcap. Its root extract carries baicalin, a well studied plant antioxidant, and it is used for the look of redness.
Polygonum Cuspidatum Root Extract plant extract: Polygonum Cuspidatum is Japanese knotweed, the main commercial source of resveratrol. Its root extract is used as an antioxidant plant extract.
Olea Europaea Leaf Extract plant extract: Olive leaf extract, carrying oleuropein. It is used as a plant antioxidant, and it is a different ingredient from the pressed fruit oil.
Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate emulsifier: Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate is a mild sugar-derived emulsifier that holds oil into water and thickens slightly.
Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil emollient: Grape Seed Oil is a light, linoleic-acid-rich oil with a fast, dry absorption. It is one of the plant oils used where an oil is wanted without a heavy finish.
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.
Glycolipids barrier lipid: Glycolipids are lipids joined to a sugar. In a formula they work partly as barrier lipids and partly as mild emulsifiers, holding oil and water together.
Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract plant extract: Marigold flower extract, one of the oldest plant ingredients used for the look of reddened, easily bothered skin. It carries carotenoids and flavonoids.
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.
Glycyrrhiza Glabra 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.
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract plant extract: Camellia Sinensis is the tea plant. Green tea leaf extract carries catechins, among the most studied plant antioxidants, and is used for the look of redness and oily shine.
Panax Ginseng Berry Extract plant extract: Extract of the ginseng fruit rather than the root. The berry carries a different balance of ginsenosides and is harvested for only a short window each year.
Sodium Benzoate preservative: Sodium Benzoate is a mild preservative that works only in acidic formulas. It is usually paired with potassium sorbate, and the pair is the standard choice where a brand wants no phenoxyethanol.
Glyceryl Caprylate emulsifier: Glyceryl Caprylate is a mild emulsifier that also makes a formula less hospitable to microbes, so it is often part of a preservative-free system.
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.
Potassium Sorbate preservative: Potassium Sorbate is a preservative that holds off yeast and mould in acidic formulas. It is almost always used with sodium benzoate, because neither covers the whole range of microbes alone.
Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate antioxidant: Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate is a water-soluble, stable vitamin C salt. It works at near-neutral pH, so it appears in formulas aimed at skin that pure ascorbic acid leaves stinging.
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.
Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Extract plant extract: Rosemary Leaf Extract carries rosmarinic and carnosic acids, both effective antioxidants. It is often there to keep the oils in a formula from going rancid.
Sodium Surfactin surfactant: A biosurfactant produced by Bacillus fermentation. It lowers surface tension at very low concentrations, so a formula needs very little of it.
Chamomilla Recutita Flower Extract plant extract: Chamomile Flower Extract is one of the oldest ingredients in skincare, carrying bisabolol and chamazulene. It is used for the look of redness in formulas for reactive skin.
Sapindus Trifoliatus Fruit Extract surfactant: Soapnut fruit extract. The shell is high in saponins, plant compounds that foam in water, so the extract is used as a mild botanical cleansing agent.
Ceramide NP barrier lipid: Ceramide NP is the most used cosmetic ceramide, the same class of lipid that makes up roughly half the mortar between cells in the outer layer of skin. Added to a cream it slots into that structure, which is why ceramide formulas feel less leaky rather than merely greasy.
Ribes Nigrum Seed Oil emollient: Blackcurrant seed oil, one of the few plant oils that carries gamma-linolenic acid. It softens skin and helps hold water in.
Serine amino acid: Serine is one of the most abundant free amino acids in the outer layer of skin, where it helps hold water. Added to a formula it is a humectant.
Phytosphingosine barrier lipid: Phytosphingosine is the backbone every ceramide is built on, and skin uses it in its own lipid layer. In a formula it works with ceramides and cholesterol and also keeps the product stable against microbes.
Alanine amino acid: Alanine is a free amino acid skin uses as part of its own moisture-holding system. In a formula it hydrates and conditions.
Proline amino acid: Proline is an amino acid abundant in collagen and one of skin's own humectants. Added to a formula it holds water in the outer layer.
Niacinamide active: Niacinamide is vitamin B3, and it is the most studied active in Korean formulation. It is used at roughly 2 to 5 percent for the look of uneven tone and visible pores, and it is water soluble, stable and comfortable beside almost every other active, which is why it turns up in so many lists.
Sodium Phosphate pH adjuster: Sodium Phosphate is a buffer salt. It holds a formula at a steady pH so its actives stay in the form they work in.
Centella Asiatica Oil plant extract: The oil-soluble fraction of centella, carried in a plant oil. It brings the fat-soluble part of the plant that a water extract leaves behind.
Retinyl Palmitate active: Retinyl Palmitate is retinol bound to a fatty acid. It is the mildest common retinoid because skin has to make three conversions before it becomes active, which also makes it the least likely to cause flaking.

How to use

Use it the first step of a routine, on damp skin. AM and PM.

Worth knowing

Avoid the eye area and rinse fully with lukewarm water.

Complete the routine

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Total for 3 items$175.00

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