Medicube Kojic Acid Turmeric Resurfacing Toner

A rough surface never gives way in one evening. It yields slowly, in small doses, over weeks, and that is exactly the situation where the size of the bottle decides whether anything changes at all.

At 250 ml this is the biggest format in the line, a thin lotion you press on with a cotton pad the moment the face comes out of the water.

• Grain flattened one evening at a time: glycolic acid sits third, behind only water and niacinamide. The sodium hydroxide just below it lifts the pH of the lotion to somewhere a face can take every day. Relief comes down gradually, with none of the jolt a once-a-week peel gives.
• Darker zones caught up with the rest: kojic acid, turmeric root, magnolia bark and monascus extract divide the tone work between them. Temple to chin, the face settles on one shade.
• The wall of the skin held while an acid runs: ceramide NP, sodium hyaluronate, panthenol and allantoin fill the back half of the list. Daily acid demands that counterweight, and here it is written into the formula.
• The smell of the bottle, explained: lavender oil and bergamot oil are both on the list. Bergamot reacts to daylight, which is the plain reason this bottle belongs to the end of the day rather than the start.

Niacinamide holds second place throughout, so every sweep also works on evenness and not only on texture.

Recommended for combination and oily skin, uneven tone, rough relief across the cheeks and the forehead, and anyone who gets through a toner faster than they get through a serum.

Step 4 · Toner

a teaspoon on a cotton pad or straight into the cupped hand, after cleansing.

• Press it onto the forehead, the cheeks and the chin without any rubbing.
• Keep clear of the eye area and the lips.
• Wait a minute for it to sink in before anything else goes on.
• Follow in the morning with sunscreen, which is what protects the surface the acid has opened up overnight.

Begin at three evenings a week and move up once the face keeps pace without tightening. A teaspoon each time puts the 250 ml bottle at about three months. One caution on the format: a 200 ml version of the same toner is sold elsewhere, so check the number on the box against the one on the shelf. If essential oils are the problem rather than the acid, the Kojic Acid Turmeric Niacinamide Serum chases the same evenness with no fragrance oil in its list.

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Aqua, Niacinamide, Glycolic Acid, 1,2-Hexanediol, Sodium Hydroxide, C12-14 Alketh-12, Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract, Ethylhexylglycerin, Gardenia Florida Fruit Extract, Adenosine, Dextrin, Kojic Acid, Monascus Extract, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Oil, Allantoin, Panthenol, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Magnolia Officinalis Bark Extract, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Ceramide NP, Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Hyaluronic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate, Potassium Hyaluronate

List provided by the supplier and translated. The composition printed on the pack is authoritative.