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Screened first. Then ranked.

Four categories, three places each. Every position comes straight from the published screening score on the product page — nothing here is bought, and nothing is rounded up.

Ferment Awards

Korea's oldest skincare technology.

Fermentation breaks large molecules into smaller ones the skin can take up, and leaves behind amino acids and peptides that were not in the raw material. It is the technique Korean skincare is built on.

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Ranking is the published screening score on each product page — safety average (75%) plus our curator read (25%). Ties are broken by the curator score, then by the number of flagged ingredients. Products can win in more than one category. Nothing on this page is sponsored. How the score is calculated →