Better than expected

This toner is one of the best selling products from the brand medicube. In my opinion it has everything you could possibly want in a toner. It improves acne and helps reduce breakouts, it brightens the skin and minimizes wrinkles, it helps regulate imbalanced sebum, and leaves skin feeling soft and looking healthy. This toner contains some pretty fantastic key ingredients. Some of the key ingredients that stood out for me were Colloidal Sulfur, Ovalicin, Niacinamide, beta glucan, glycerin, and butylene glycol.

What benefits do these ingredients have exactly???

Colloidal Sulfur: Sulfur helps dry out the surface of your skin to help absorb excess oil (sebum) that may contribute to acne breakouts. It also dries out dead skin cells to help unclog your pores.

Ovalicin: It is naturally sourced from extraction and fermentation of cordyceps militaris. Cordyceps militaris has been used for multiple medicinal purposes such as hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic, anti-inflammatory, antitumor, anti-metastatic, immunomodulatory, and antioxidant effect.

Niacinamide: Niacinamide reduces inflammation , which may help ease redness from eczema, acne, and other inflammatory skin conditions. Minimizes pore appearance. Keeping skin smooth and moisturized and a natural reduction in pore size over time. Regulates oil.

Beta-Glucan: Beta glucans are polysaccharide sugars found in cell walls that are derived from various mushrooms, plants, algaes, yeasts or oats. ... In skin care, beta glucans work twofold to soothe and calm irritated skin and as an effective anti-ager to firm and plump fine lines and wrinkles.

Glycerin: Glycerine is a humectant, which is a substance that retains moisture. Humectants work by drawing moisture from the air and delivering it to the skin. Because of it's moisturizing abilities, glycerine helps prevent wrinkles, breakouts, and improves the overall health of the skin.

Butylene Glycol: Butylene glycol is a conditioning agent
Conditioning agents are ingredients that add a layer of softness or improved texture to your hair or skin. They're also called moisturizers or, in the case of butylene glycol, humectants. Butylene glycol works to condition skin and hair by coating the surface of your cells.

My experience: I was really surprised when I first tried this toner. It was definitely not what I was expecting. For starters the consistency of the toner is different from most average toners. It has a pretty thick consistency almost more along the lines of an essence. You could probably apply this with your hands rather than a cotton round. Honestly you would be wasting product and a cotton round. The toner seems to absorb into the skin fairly quickly and leaves my skin with a nice soft smooth feel to it. I love the moisturizing affect this toner has on my skin. It really does a fantastic job at moisturizing and hydrating the skin. This is definitely a lot different than most skincare that is focused around acne prone skin. A lot of the time these types of products dry out my skin and leave my skin feeling a bit irritated. This toner left my skin not only feeling moisturized but very much calm and soothed. I would certainly buy this toner again without a doubt it is one of the best products medicube has.