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The Ultimate Guide to Viral Olive Young Toner Pads

The Ultimate Guide to Viral Olive Young Toner Pads

What are Korean Toner Pads and Why are They All the Craze?

A multifunctional helper for your skincare routine, these palm-sized pads have become a star product in the Korean skincare scene for their convenience and versatility. All you need to do is take a pad and gently wipe or wet to enjoy exfoliating, double cleansing and hydrating benefits all at once, perfect for busy people who want skincare that gets the job done fast.

A piece is all it takes to tick off several steps in your routine – an absolute holy grail for those of us rushing out the door every morning. Each portable pad is dripping with skin-friendly serum to gently exfoliate or care for impurities, dead skin cells and pores. You can even leave a few on, like mini sheet masks, for pinpoint soothing and hydrating topical treatment.

Toner pads come in an array of effects to suit your needs, whether it's cleansing, hydrating, soothing or resurfacing. As a skincare product that can provide all-in-one care and yet deliver topical intensive treatment, it's a must-have in your daily regime.

This trend isn't only headed by the Korean health and beauty drugstore Olive Young, which has set up dedicated Toner Pad corners in its South Korean stores, but it's also taken off internationally with users sharing their favourite toner pads on Instagram, TikTok and RedNote. Keep reading for 15 popular Olive Young toner pads to find the perfect pad for your skin type!

Toner Pads vs. Sheet Masks

Sheet masks usually require 15-20 minutes to work their magic, some needing even longer, but leaving a toner pad on your face for just 3-5 minutes is enough for quick revitalization. The pads’ small sizes also make it easier to target parts of the face requiring special functional care or hydrate parts prone to dryness before applying makeup.

Different Pad Textures: What for?

Korean toner pads are usually double-sized, featuring an embossed side and a smooth side. Gently wiping your skin with the coarse embossed side after washing your face can help to lightly exfoliate and improve acne problems. You can then follow with the smooth side and leave it on your skin like a sheet mask for a hydrating boost.

How to Pick My Toner Pads?

For Dry and Sensitive Skin: Go for toner pads with hydrating and calming effects.
For Oily and Acne-prone Skin: Toner pads with exfoliating and pore care functions can help with oil control and reducing blackheads.

Exfoliating / Pore Care / Oil Control Toner Pads

Olive Young Toner Pad Pick|Numbuzin No.4 Pore Zero Peeled Egg Toner Pad

Gently exfoliates with hypoallergenic PHA and LHA and is enriched with the patented natural sebum-controlling ingredient “Anti Sebum P” to clean and unclog pores, gently exfoliate, and adjust your skin texture with just one pad, leaving your skin soft as a peeled egg.

Olive Young Toner Pad Pick|VT Cica Mild Toner Pad

Pore minimising toner pads from VT Cosmetics, a Korean skincare brand known for their cica products and micro-needle essences. Gently exfoliates and gets rid of excess sebum with BHA in a refreshing non-sticky texture, while also enriched with centella asiatica and triple hyaluronic acid to soothe, hydrate and reduce redness.


Olive Young Toner Pad Pick|BIODANCE Collagen Gel Toner Pads

Featuring a unique bouncy gel texture, the pink version of the Biodance toner pads is infused with ultra-low molecular collagen and the "miracle Pitera ingredient" Galactomyces to tighten pores, lift and improve elasticity.
Its blue counterpart hydrates with low-molecular hyaluronic acid, ceramides and other moisturising and skin soothing agents, with pure glacial water to instantly cool sensitive red skin, strengthen the skin barrier and fundamentally improve skin health.

Sungboon Editor Green Tomato Pore Peeling Jumbo Pad 60pads/180ml

Antioxidant-loaded green tomato extract in these pore care pads cares for both age-induced pores and sebum producing pores, while hypoallergenic fruit acid PHA gently resurfaces thick, overproduced keratin and controls sebum secretion.


Olive Young Toner Pad Pick|celimax Jiwoogae Cica BHA Blemish Toner Pad

A toner pad for sensitive acne-prone skin enriched with a patented concoction of 7 botanicals to effectively cleanse skin waste and residual impurities, prevent clogged pores from worsening skin problems, and tighten pores. Skin irritation test completed so that sensitive skin types can use it with confidence.

Medicube Zero Pore Pad 2.0 70pads
Olive Young Toner Pad Pick|Medicube Zero Pore Pad 2.0

Endorsed by the national Korean MC and TV host Yoo Jae-suk, these award-winning pore pads are Medicube’s bestsellers. Formulated with patented pore-tightening ingredients, the essence combines AHA and BHA with a golden ratio to remove dead skin cells, cleanse whiteheads and blackheads, and control oil production with just one pad.

Soothing and Moisturising Toner Pads


Green cotton pads made from ground cica leaves, soaked with 89% natural plant extracts, such as centella asiatica, heartleaf extract, liquorice root, etc. Deeply moisturises and soothes to calm sensitivity, redness and other skin discomfort.


Purely moisturising cotton pads with a mildly acidic hypoallergenic skin formula that quickly hydrates with 5 different molecular sizes of hyaluronic acid, plumping your skin with moisture from the inside out. The addition of panthenol and allantoin also means soothing and barrier-strengthening benefits.

Abib Sedum Hyaluron Pad Hydrating Touch 75pcs
Olive Young Toner Pad Pick|Abib Sedum Hyaluron Pad Hydrating Touch

These hydrating toner pads offer intensive hydration with Abib Sedum Hyaluron, a deeply moisturising extract derived from Sedum Sarmentosum. Meanwhile, PHA and succinic acid provide gentle exfoliation and sebum care to control excess oil production and buildup while keeping skin nourished.


Deeply hydrating and firming pads concocted with the Rose of Jericho extract – which boasts excellent moisture retention abilities – as well as collagen extract to boost your skin barrier, soothe irritation and improve skin elasticity. The non-sticky, milky water texture instils dense moisture into skin, perfect for dry, mature skin.

Skinfood Carrot Carotene Calming Water Pad (60pcs/box)
Olive Young Toner Pad Pick|Skinfood Carrot Carotene Calming Water Pad

These soothing pads feature key ingredients derived from carrots, including Carrot Root Extract and Carrot Seed Oil, which are rich in β-Carotene, an excellent skin antioxidant that can help protect the skin and can be converted into vitamin A in the body. Offers sensitivity relief and hydration for overheated skin in a refreshing, non-sticky texture.

Brightening Toner Pads

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Formulated with up to 50 valuable, department store-grade fermented ingredients, these pads nourish and repel dullness and uneven skin tones. If you're concerned about sensitive reactions to fermented ingredients, the formula's "Golden Calming Complex" has got you. Made with Gardenia and Curcumin to minimise potential irritation, the soothing component ensures safe usage for sensitive skin types.

Medicube PDRN Pink Collagen Toning Gel Toner Pad 70pcs

Soft, skin-clinging gel toner pads drenched in 99% high-purity salmon PDRN essence to fade blemishes, reduce hyperpigmentation and improve skin melanin concentration.

Abib Glutathiosome Dark Spot Pad Vita Touch 60pcs
Olive Young Toner Pad Pick|Abib Glutathiosome Dark Spot Pad Vita Touch

Soaked with a whole bottle of essence containing glutathione, niacinamide, vitamin C and other brightening goodies, Abib's glutathiosome toner pads are ideal for uneven skin tones, dull complexions, scars and blemishes and leaves skin soft, smooth and radiant.

Designed to brighten and hydrate at the same time, numbuzin's No.5 pads feature a double-sided jelly texture and is infused with a rich brightening formula of glutathione, 5% niacinamide, and various vitamin C and E derivatives. PHA and LHA are also added for mild exfoliation and a gentle cleanse. Simply place them on your face to enjoy hydrated, exfoliated skin and an even, radiant complexion.


Sungboon Editor Meoru Podo Vita C Turn-over Dark Spot Pad 60pads/140ml

Rich in antioxidizing ingredients, mulberry grapes boast excellent antioxidant ingredients among other grape varieties. Sungboon Editor’s Meoru Podo toner pads are steeped in patented grape vitamin C ingredients, which work in tandem with vitamin C derivatives and PHA to brighten and improve hyperpigmentation with minimal irritation.
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