Super Matcha Pore Clean Clay Mask is a thick, pale putty-grey clay you spread over a dry face and rinse away ten to twenty minutes later. SOME BY MI prints its two headline figures straight onto the ingredient panel rather than leaving them to the marketing: kaolin at 120,000 ppm, sitting second on the list behind water alone, and green tea water at 102,000 ppm just below the glycerin.
The tea appears four separate times — as water, as whole leaf, as milled powder and as an extract — and the brand's own product imagery credits Boseong, the county in South Jeolla best known for growing it. Around them sit bentonite, silica and a trace of Manicouagan clay, with centella asiatica extract, houttuynia cordata powder and tea tree leaf water lower down. White willow bark and capryloyl salicylic acid supply the BHA.
It is built for skin that reads shiny by mid-afternoon, catches on a cotton pad, and shows its pores most across the nose and centre of the forehead. The layer dries down firm and matte, so what you rinse off to is clean and faintly taut rather than cushioned. Moisturiser immediately afterwards is part of the step, not an afterthought.
Two notes worth having up front. This is a weekly or twice-weekly ritual rather than a nightly one. And where the toner and serum in the same Super Matcha line carry Korea's dual-function cosmetic registration, the mask is registered as an ordinary cosmetic.
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Specific tea-leaf formulas may support hydration and a smoother, less shiny look.
Helps soothe visible redness and support the skin barrier.
The openings across the nose, chin and forehead that look wider the closer you get to a mirror.
Shine that comes back over the T-zone a few hours after you have finished getting ready.
A grainy, catchy surface that makes base makeup sit unevenly however carefully you buff it.
Printed at 120,000 ppm and listed second, straight after water, so it is the bulk of what you spread on.
The brand's Korean panel names it green tea water, not a generic tea blend, and prints the figure beside it.
White willow bark and capryloyl salicylic acid are the two BHA sources on the back of the tub.
Centella asiatica extract, allantoin and tea tree leaf water make up the quieter end of the list.
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This itemSOME BY MI Super Matcha Pore Clean Clay Mask 100g$24.00ANUA Heartleaf Pore Control Cleansing Oil 200ml$22.00ANUA Heartleaf Pore Control Cleansing Oil Mild 200ml$25.00Total price: $71.00
This itemSOME BY MI Super Matcha Pore Clean Clay Mask 100g$24.00ANUA Heartleaf Pore Control Cleansing Oil 200ml$22.00ANUA Heartleaf Pore Control Cleansing Oil Mild 200ml$25.00Total price: $71.00
