Medicube Deep Vita C Pad

February, and the tone has gone flat in a way a long night of sleep no longer lifts. Then there are the brown marks a spot left behind six months ago, still sitting there when everything else has gone. One pad a day goes after both of them.

The first name on the ingredient list is not water. It is sea buckthorn water, around half the formula, and seventy pads sit soaking in it. One side of the pad is dimpled, the other is smooth, and the whole thing stands in for your toner.

• Vitamin C that holds its strength to the last pad: 3-O-ethyl ascorbic acid is a stable form. It does not brown in the jar the way pure ascorbic acid does, so the pad you pull out in week nine is worth as much as the first one.
• Dark spots made to look lighter: niacinamide comes fifth on the list, high enough to count. It works on the evenness of a whole face rather than on one patch at a time.
• The dull top layer lifted with no scrub: gluconolactone is the slowest of the exfoliating acids. It spends its time on the dead flakes that flatten a tone, and leaves the living skin beneath them out of it.
• Comfort held through a daily pass: allantoin, panthenol, adenosine and a liquorice derivative close the formula, with beta-glucan and hyaluronic acid behind them.

Ubiquinone, ergothioneine, hesperidin and two peptides sit at the tail of the list, in the slot where antioxidants usually go. The jar is listed at 150 g where it is sold by weight.

Recommended for a tone gone flat at the end of winter, brown marks left by old spots, a surface that has turned uneven, and normal to combination skin that gets on with natural scents.

Step 4 · Toner

once a day, morning or evening, never both.

• Lift a pad out with tweezers rather than fingers: wet fingers put water back into the jar.
• Run the dimpled side over the forehead, the cheeks and the chin in short passes.
• Flip it and press the smooth side where the tone looks flattest.
• Leave the skin damp and put your serum straight on top.

At one pad a day the jar runs a little over two months, and the pads at the top dry out fast if the lid is not pushed right home. Sunscreen the next morning belongs to the routine, not to your preferences. Palmarosa and citronella oils scent the formula, with geraniol, citral and citronellol declared alongside them, so if natural perfumes turn your cheeks pink the Zero Pore Pad Mild works the same uneven surface without any of them.

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Hippophae Rhamnoides Water, Water, Methyl Gluceth-20, Methylpropanediol, Niacinamide, Glycereth-26, Methyl Gluceth-10, Polyglycerin-3, 1,2-Hexanediol, Gluconolactone, 3-0-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Ethylhexylglycerin, Cymbopogon Martini Oil, Cymbopogon Nardus Oil, Adenosine, Butylene Glycol, Disodium EDTA, Mentha Viridis Extract, Lactobacillus/Lemon Peel Ferment Extract, Geraniol, Citral, Citronellol, Coptis Japonica Extract, Cucumis Melo Seed Extract, Litsea Cubeba Fruit Oil, Pelargonium Graveolens Extract, Allantoin, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Panthenol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Lactic Acid, Glucose, Beta-Glucan, Linalool, Hyaluronic Acid, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Tocopherol, Cetyl Palmitate, Ubiquinone, Polysorbate 80, Sorbitan Stearate, Sodium Benzoate, Citric Acid, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Ergothioneine, Hesperidin, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-10

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