🧪 Treatment
COSRX AC Collection Calming Liquid Intensive
90
COSRXB
🧴Acne-Friendly🌿Soothing🧪Active-Rich
👃Fragrance-Free💚Allergen-Free✅Paraben-Free🧪Alcohol-Free
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View product ↗Description
Total & Intensive acne solution from purifying to recovering
An intensive, fast-action liquid that refreshes and purifies acne skin. Cooling, Clearing care for troubled skin. *with alcohol derived from plants
Warnings
- •4 potential irritants in the formula — introduce gradually.
Ingredient Breakdown (8 INCI · 4 active)
- 0Aqua/Water
- 1Propolis ExtractACTIVE
- 2Butylene Glycol
- 3NiacinamideACTIVE
- 4Centella Asiatica ExtractACTIVE
- 62-Hexanediol
- 7Betaine SalicylateACTIVE
- 8Panthenol
Product Info
Type
Treatment
Size
125 ml
Price
$9.49
Cost per use
$0.04
Lasts
~8 months
at 1× daily
Daily use
~10 drops/day
Certifications
👃 Fragrance-Free💚 Allergen-Free✅ Paraben-Free🧪 Alcohol-Free
Score Breakdown
Efficacy
90
🧪Ingredient Quality45 / 45
- ✓3 high-impact actives: Bee Propolis, Niacinamide, Betaine Salicylate
- ✓5 supporting actives (Tier 2)
🎯Concentration Signal15 / 15
- ⚠No % concentrations on the label — strength inferred from INCI order
- ↑Disclose the % of each headline active
🏆Evidence Backing11.9 / 15
- ✓Average evidence 80/100 across 8 matched actives
- ✓7 actives with strong evidence (≥80/100)
🧬Formulation Sophistication12 / 12
- ✓5 distinct ingredient classes — well-rounded formula
- ✓Synergy: Panthenol + Allantoin · Niacinamide + HA · Centella Asiatica Extract + Niacinamide
📋Functional Completeness6 / 8
- ✓Carries the active classes expected for this product type
🛡️Base Formula Credit0 / 5
Safety
98
Starts at 100; each row below subtracts points up to its cap.
🔥Irritation Risk−5.5 / 18
- ⚠1 moderate-irritation ingredient: Propolis Extract
🌿Fragrance0 / 10
- ✓Fragrance-free
⚠️Allergens0 / 10
- ✓No EU 26 fragrance allergens detected
🚫Endocrine Concern0 / 15
- ✓No ingredients flagged for endocrine activity
💎Comedogenicity−1.4 / 7
- ⚠Moderate comedogenic potential (avg 1.0/5)
🔀Formulation Conflicts0 / 10
- ✓No antagonistic ingredient combinations
✨Clean-Formula & Transparency+5 / 8
- ✓Short-ingredient-list bonus: +3.0
- ✓Transparency bonus: +2.0 (clear INCI disclosure)
Overall Score90/100
Overall = 50% Efficacy + 50% Safety. No bonus pad — hitting 100 requires both dimensions to be near-perfect. How scoring works →