Toners
All Toners
K-Beauty PDRN Pioneer 5 PDRN B5 Vital Soothing Toner
COSRX's PDRN toner is a beautifully formulated hydrating layer that packs an absurd amount of actives into a watery, fragrance-free format. The PDRN ingredient is more hype than proven science in topical form, but the seven types of hyaluronic acid, dual B5, niacinamide, centella, and Argireline surrounding it make this an excellent toner regardless of whether salmon DNA delivers on its clinic-to-cosmetic promise.
Sensitive Skin MVP 1025 Dokdo Toner
A cult-favorite K-beauty hydrator that's earned its reputation by doing less on purpose. Deep seawater, a whisper of niacinamide, panthenol, and a handful of calming botanicals add up to one of the most reliable sensitive-skin toners on the market — and at under $20 for 200 ml, one of the best values in K-beauty.
Barrier-Soothing Essence Toner Panthetoin Essence Toner
A fragrance-free, vegan barrier-and-hydration essence-toner built on a smart panthenol-and-ectoin complex with ceramide NP and nourishing oils — genuinely soothing and barrier-supportive for dry, sensitive, depleted skin, and good value at 200ml. The oils and emulsifiers that rule out fungal-acne-prone skin and make it a touch rich for oily skin are the main caveats.
Budget Glow Toner Green Plum Refreshing Toner: AHA + BHA
A near-perfect daily exfoliating toner that nails the balance between effective and gentle — the 2% glycolic and 0.5% salicylic acid are just enough to keep pores clear and skin glowing without the irritation drama. At under $20 for 150ml, it's one of the best value propositions in K-beauty right now.
K-Beauty Ginseng Ritual Essential Ginseng Essence Water
A ginseng-saturated essence that delivers 80% root water plus four additional ginseng derivatives in a clean, vegan formula at an almost unreasonably good price. Does exactly what traditional Korean skincare has claimed ginseng does — hydrates, brightens, and gives skin that subtle vitality glow — with modern actives like niacinamide and adenosine backing it up.
K-Beauty Calming Toner Staple No. 1 Pure-Full Calming Herb Toner
A beautifully minimalist toner that replaces 93% of its formula with three proven calming botanicals — centella, heartleaf, and licorice root — delivering one of the purest, most intentionally formulated toners on the K-beauty market at an outstanding value.
Budget Rosewater Standard Rosewater & Glycerin Hydrating Facial Mist
An honest, genuinely affordable rosewater-glycerin mist whose hydrating credentials come entirely from the glycerin, not the rose. The three-ingredient formula does exactly what it should. Just ignore the 'Vor-Mag water' marketing — vortexed, magnetized water is wellness-industry pseudoscience that changes nothing about how this performs.
Big-Bottle Soothing PHA Toner Our Vegan Heartleaf Cica Toner
A genuinely soothing, fragrance-free toner that pairs a meaningful 5% heartleaf and centella with a gentle PHA, so it calms redness and reactivity while lightly refining texture — all in a generous, excellent-value 400ml bottle. A lovely daily first step for sensitive, blemish-prone skin. The polyglyceryl emulsifiers that rule out fungal-acne-prone skin are the main caveat.
K-Beauty Routine Workhorse AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Toner
A beautifully minimal 12-ingredient toner that excels not at what its name suggests — exfoliation — but at what it actually does: prep skin at an optimal acidic pH for the treatments that follow. The active concentrations are too low for standalone exfoliation, but as a daily pH-adjusting step in an active-heavy routine, it's quietly indispensable.
Sensitive Skin Exfoliant Pick PHA Toner
The toner for people who thought they couldn't use acids. At 3% gluconolactone, this is exfoliation with training wheels — gentle, hydrating, and almost impossibly hard to irritate your skin with. Ideal for sensitive types; too subtle for the impatient.
K-Beauty Cult Classic Toner Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner
The toner that made heartleaf a household ingredient in global skincare, and it earned that status honestly. Impossibly gentle, broadly compatible, and priced generously enough to use without guilt. Not the most complex formula, but its simplicity is the feature, not the flaw.
K-Beauty Sensitive-Skin Staple Dokdo Toner
The simpler predecessor to Round Lab's cult 1025 Dokdo Toner — same deep seawater base and calming botanical tail, minus the niacinamide. For users who don't tolerate niacinamide or want the purest expression of Round Lab's minimalism, it's a quiet, reliable, fragrance-free sensitive-skin toner at an excellent price.
Soothing Toner Pad Pick PDRN Repair + Soothe Korean Prickly Pear Toner Pads
A genuinely well-loaded soothing toner pad — a 5% centella complex, beta-glucan, panthenol and a peptide, with a vegan rice-and-prickly-pear PDRN, fragrance-free and gentle. It calms and hydrates reactive skin well, the prickly pear theme is more apt than decorative, and at $30 for 60 pads it is fairly priced.
Budget Transparency Pick Moisturizing Lotion
A no-frills Japanese drugstore hydrating toner that does exactly one thing well — comfortable, fragrance-free hydration from hyaluronic acid and trehalose — at a near-cost price that shames most of the category. It won't thrill ingredient hunters and it uses parabens, but for gentle, reliable daily hydration and unmatched transparency, it's a quietly excellent basic.
Budget Brightening Essential Niacinamide Brightening Toner
A cleverly constructed multi-pathway brightening toner that combines four different melanin-targeting mechanisms at gentle concentrations. At fourteen dollars, it's a remarkably smart approach to hyperpigmentation that trades intensity for breadth — and for most skin types, that's the better strategy.
Minimalist Hydration Workhorse DIVE-IN Low Molecule Hyaluronic Acid Toner
A masterclass in minimalist hydration — twenty ingredients, five molecular weights of hyaluronic acid, zero filler. At $18 for 300ml, this K-beauty toner delivers the kind of layered, barrier-friendly hydration that makes complex routines feel unnecessary.
Budget Brightening Essence-Toner Hyalu-Cica Brightening Toner
A 74% Centella leaf water base, functional niacinamide, gentle LHA, hyaluronic acid stack, adenosine, and ceramide NP in a 210ml bottle for around $22. This is less a toner and more a hydrating-brightening essence in disguise, and it's one of the best-value daily treatments in Korean skincare right now.
Drugstore Holy Grail Cucumber Facial Toner
Thayers Cucumber Toner is the gentlest, most reliably non-irritating witch hazel toner at the drugstore — a ten-ingredient formula that uses Thayers' 175-year-old alcohol-free extraction method paired with glycerin and aloe to deliver actual hydration instead of the astringent burn most witch hazel toners are famous for. At twelve dollars for a 12 oz bottle, it's an honest workhorse with no ambitions beyond doing one thing well.
Cult Minimalist Toner Sensitive Skin Toning Water - Light
A cult Japanese minimalist toner that distills hydration to its essentials — alkaline spring water, Lipidure, glycerin, purslane, allantoin — fragrance-free, alcohol-free, and famously cheap. The Light version is weightless and almost impossible to react to, ideal for normal-to-oily and sensitive skin. It's a humble, reliable hydrator; just don't expect any treatment actives.
Galactomyces Clarifying Toner Galactomy Clearskin Toner
A well-built clarifying toner that pairs the brand's galactomyces ferment with a gentle LHA-PHA-and-enzyme exfoliating blend to decongest pores and refine texture on oily, blemish-prone skin — fragrance-free and, notably, fungal-acne-safe. It clarifies without stripping, thanks to a soothing galactomyces-and-panthenol base. The acids' mild sensitizing potential and a trace of rosemary are the only real caveats.
Seven-Ingredient Calming Toner Chamomile Cleansing Lotion
Seven ingredients, no alcohol, no fragrance, no dyes, no witch hazel: a preserved glycol water with a trace of chamomile that removes cleanser residue, wets the skin for the next step and does nothing else. For sensitive skin that is the whole recommendation, and at two dollars an ounce it is one of the safest toners on a drugstore shelf; the chamomile is a name, and a hydrating toner does more.
Bulk-Bottle Hydration Bargain Ultra Facial Hyaluronic Acid Toner
A fifteen-ingredient hyaluronic toner that declares its low-molecular fraction at 0.3 percent, puts glycerin second, leaves out fragrance, alcohol and oil, and sells 300 mL for about twelve dollars through K-beauty importers. It does the plain job of a hydrating toner very well and nothing beyond it, tolerates every skin type, and is one of the cheapest genuinely good bottles in the category, if you can find it.
K-Beauty Hydration Icon Cream Skin Cerapeptide Toner & Moisturizer
The product that invented the cream-toner category, now upgraded with ceramides and peptides. Laneige's Cream Skin Cerapeptide delivers genuinely impressive hydration and barrier support in a fragrance-free, irritant-free formula that suits nearly every skin type. At $38 for 5 oz, the value is strong — and the versatility as both a toner and light moisturizer makes it one of the smartest products in K-beauty.
The Ferment Purist Time Revolution The First Treatment Essence 5X
A masterclass in formulation restraint — 97% ferment content, 15 ingredients, zero fragrance, and fungal-acne-safe status make this one of the cleanest and most universally suitable first treatment essences available. At roughly one-fifth the price of SK-II, it delivers the fermented essence experience to everyone.
The Invisible Skin Primer Time Revolution The First Treatment Essence RX
The fourth generation of Missha's iconic first treatment essence line — a 95% ferment formula with rice extract, pearl powder, and a proprietary double-fermentation process that added genuine character to the SK-II dupe narrative. Now discontinued in favor of the simpler 5X, the RX remains a clean, effective fermented essence for anyone who can still find it.
Daily Clarifying Companion Azelaic Acid 3 Cica Skin Clarifying Toner
A daily-use acid toner that manages the difficult balance between active clarification and gentle soothing — the triple-acid system at low concentrations clears pores and smooths texture without the irritation recovery that stronger acid products demand. The 250ml size at $22 makes it one of the best-value active toners in the K-beauty space, though the essential oils keep it from being truly universal.
Sensitive Skin Holy Grail Unscented Facial Toner
Thayers Unscented Facial Toner is the cleanest, gentlest, and most boring variant in the Thayers lineup — and that's the whole point. A nine-ingredient alcohol-free witch hazel formula stripped of all fragrance and botanical extras, it's the version dermatologists actually recommend for rosacea, eczema, and post-procedure skin. At $11 for a 12 oz bottle, it's the value pick of the line.
K-Beauty Barrier Workhorse Wonder Ceramide Mochi Toner
A surprisingly serious barrier-repair toner hiding inside TONYMOLY's playful K-beauty packaging. The full ceramide trio plus cholesterol and phytosphingosine is a legit lipid-replenishing combo, and the 500ml bottle for $22 makes it one of the better-value hydrating toners on the market.
Redness-Soothing Pick Azelaic 10 Hyaluron Redness Soothing Pad
A gentle, well-judged soothing pad for redness-prone skin that pairs a low, comfortable dose of azelaic acid with a full centella complex, bisabolol and licorice, all fragrance-free. It genuinely calms everyday redness and hydrates without any sting — provided you understand it is a comfort step, not a treatment-strength azelaic product.
Sensitive-Skin MVP Artemisia Rice Toner
A genuinely loaded mugwort toner that swaps out water for 78% artemisia extract and stacks a full cica complex, panthenol, allantoin, and a small ceramide-cholesterol pair on top. Calming, fragrance-free, and quietly versatile under retinoids and acids — one of the more honest sensitive-skin toners at its price.
Brightening Daily Swipe One Step Original Tone Clarifying Moisture Pad
A generous, gentle daily toner pad that trades the original Clear pad's BHA exfoliation for a four-active brightening blend and a remarkably deep hyaluronic-acid bench, soaked in 69% rice water. The tone-evening is gradual rather than dramatic, but at $26 for 230mL of essence it's an easy, low-irritation way to layer brightening and hydration into a routine.
Bare-Bones Aloe Basic Aloe Vera Toner
Preserved aloe water with a little glycol and, needlessly, three dyes: alcohol-free, fragrance-free, oil-free and about as inoffensive as a toner can be, in a big bottle at two dollars an ounce. It refreshes, removes cleanser residue and leaves the skin damp for what comes next, and it does nothing else, which for sensitive skin is exactly the recommendation.
Brightening Powerhouse Toner No. 5 Vitamin Boosting Essential Toner
Numbuzin's most scientifically ambitious formula yet — five distinct brightening mechanisms in a clean, irritant-free toner that outperforms products costing three times as much. This is what happens when a K-beauty brand stops chasing viral moments and starts chasing formulation excellence.
K-Beauty Barrier Prep Staple Probio-Cica Essence Toner
A generous 210ml essence-toner that brings centella triterpenes, four postbiotic ferments, and polyglutamic acid to the first leave-on step of your routine. It's the rare toner that earns its 'essence' label rather than borrowing it.
K-Beauty Brightening Workhorse Tone Brightening Boosting Toner
A quietly ambitious brightening toner that stacks five complementary tone-evening actives inside SKIN1004's signature Madagascar centella base. Results are cumulative rather than dramatic, but for under $25 you get niacinamide, alpha-arbutin, tranexamic acid, glutathione, and ascorbyl glucoside working together on a soothing foundation — a combination that costs three times as much in Western serums.
Cult J-Beauty Value Pick High Moist Lotion
A 350-year-old sake brewery turned its own fermentation byproduct into one of the best-value hydrating essences in skincare — $14 for 500ml, with real sake ferment, dual ceramides, an amino acid complex, and arbutin. The per-ml price is almost unbelievable. The trade-off is a fragranced, paraben-containing formula and an undisclosed placental protein, which keep it from being a clean recommendation for everyone.
Triple Acid Acne Toner Clarity Tonic
Pixi's Clarity Tonic combines triple acid complex (glycolic + lactic + salicylic) with dual probiotic ferments, multi-botanical soothing (centella + licorice + willow bark), magnesium ascorbyl phosphate vitamin C derivative, and multi-source humectants at $29 for 250ml. Strong drugstore-prestige acne toner. Pregnancy contraindicated.
K-Beauty Hydrating Prep Essence Wild Dew Treatment Essence
Peach & Lily's Wild Dew is a featherlight hydrating prep essence built on lotus and bamboo water, layered humectants, a ferment, and a touch of niacinamide. It drenches and calms skin in seconds and genuinely makes the rest of a routine absorb better. It is gentle, fragrance-free, and broadly flattering — just don't expect a single-step transformation.
Minimalist Hydration Cult Pick Essence Toner
The cult minimalist toner: 91.3% milk vetch root extract in a seven-ingredient, fragrance-free formula that's essentially a soothing herbal infusion for the skin. It hydrates fast, calms reactive skin, layers beautifully, and costs very little — a deserved sensitive-skin favorite. The trade-off is exactly its appeal: it does one thing, hydration-and-soothe, and very dry skin will still want a moisturizer over it.
Fragrance-Free Calming Toner Green Tea Calming Essence Toner Origin
A genuinely clean, fragrance-free calming toner that does one job well: soothe and hydrate. With 5.4% Jeju green tea and ~1% panthenol in a short, allergen-free, EWG-green formula, it's one of the most universally tolerable toners you can buy — ideal for sensitive, reddened skin and the seven-skin method. Minimalist by design, with no brightening or anti-aging actives, and outstanding value at 200ml.
Budget Hydration Hero Waterfull Hyaluronic Toner
A standout budget hydrator that layers seven forms of hyaluronic acid over a ceramide-and-madecassoside barrier base, fragrance-free and in a generous 250 ml bottle for under twenty dollars. It hydrates deeply without any tackiness and is gentle enough for sensitive skin — easily one of the better value-to-quality hydrating toners going.
Affordable Gentle Hydrating Mist Hydrating Milky Mist
Thayers Hydrating Milky Mist is a genuinely good, gentle, and affordable ($15) hydrating face mist — and better than most because it's built on a meaningful 7% glycerin plus oat milk, panthenol, and soothing madecassoside, not just water. It's fragrance-free and alcohol-free, making it a real, gentle choice for sensitive and dry skin (many mists contain irritating alcohol or fragrance). So it delivers comforting, soothing hydration and a barrier-supporting refresh, with the 'milky' texture giving it more substance than a plain water spray. The honest caveats are inherent to the category: a mist is a light top-up step with modest, short-lived hydration, not a moisturizer replacement. But as affordable, gentle hydrating mists go, it's a well-formulated, well-priced one.
Plain Glycerin Water, Prestige Bottle Ultra Facial Oil-Free Toner
A fifteen-ingredient glycerin water with no alcohol, oil, fragrance or actives, which makes it one of the safest toners on any shelf and one of the emptiest. It refreshes and lightly hydrates combination and oily skin without adding shine or breaking anyone out, does nothing whatsoever about oil or blemishes, and costs twenty-six dollars for what is, chemically, a very well-made humectant splash.
Apothecary Cucumber Water Cucumber Herbal Alcohol-Free Toner
A decades-old apothecary herbal water, alcohol-free, fragrance-free and cooling, that refreshes and lightly hydrates without ever pretending to treat. Allantoin and humectants do the small amount of work; cucumber, nettle and birch supply the character; a dash of camphor and three dyes supply the doubts for a toner sold to sensitive skin. Pleasant, reliable and overpriced for water, it earns its counter space on ritual and heritage rather than on formulation.
Zero-Sting Toner Pad Centel Calming Shot Toner Pad
A toner pad that has been stripped of everything that makes toner pads sting: no acid, no alcohol, no perfume. What is left is a watery, hyaluronate-rich essence with panthenol and allantoin doing the calming and a 100 ppm centella culture medium doing the marketing. It will not treat anything, and that is the point; for reactive skin it is a cheap, dependable, zero-drama step.
Minimalist Cica Toner Centella Asiatica (CICA) Madecassoside Betaine 4% Facial Toner
A genuinely minimal, fragrance-free toner that is 92 percent centella extract with 4 percent betaine, and it does exactly what it promises: calm, hydrate and stay out of the way. It is ideal as a buffer in routines built around retinoids or acids, though dry skin will need more moisture on top and nobody should expect treatment-level results.
Sensitive Skin Gateway Exfoliant Madagascar Centella Toning Toner
A deliberately gentle exfoliating toner that prioritizes safety over spectacle — 84% centella extract with mild PHA exfoliation makes it one of the most accessible acid toners for sensitive skin. Don't expect dramatic peeling or instant glow; expect quiet, cumulative smoothing that never punishes your barrier.
Sensitive Skin Brightening Hero Rice 70 Glow Milky Toner
Anua's fragrance-free answer to their own Peach toner, and in many ways the more impressive formulation — a complete triple ceramide barrier system, rice-derived brightening, and a milky texture that turns the toner step into genuine skincare. At $20 for 250ml, the value is outstanding.
K-Beauty Pore Toner Poremizing Clear Toner
A well-balanced multi-acid exfoliating toner that combines BHA, LHA, AHA, and PHA at gentle daily-use concentrations, with a meaningful centella and hyaluronic acid buffer system. Best for oily and combination skin dealing with congestion; the lavender extract and acid load make it a poor pick for reactive skin, but for the right user it's one of the more considered K-beauty pore toners in its price range.
Upgraded Heritage Classic Rosewater Facial Toner
The grown-up version of Heritage Store's classic rosewater mist — same authentic Damask rose, but now backed by a triple humectant stack of glycerin, sodium PCA, and hyaluronic acid plus soothing aloe. It's a genuine hydration step rather than a scented refresher, and strong value at around $13. Natural rose fragrance is the one caveat.
Sensitive Skin Soother Triple PDRN Gel Toner
A cooling, genuinely soothing gel toner with a real barrier-friendly core of centella, ceramide, and astaxanthin in a generous 270ml bottle. The headline 'plant PDRN' is more clever marketing than proven science, and the trace retinal is a name-drop — but as a calming hydration step, it quietly delivers.
Premium Ceramide Drugstore Pick AP High Moisture Pre-Barrier Milk
Rohto's CareCera AP Pre-Barrier Milk delivers 8 total ceramides (proprietary Ceramide Plus + 7 natural forms) plus petrolatum occlusive at accessible drugstore pricing. One of the most ceramide-rich Japanese drugstore products available, particularly valuable for atopic dermatitis and chronic dry skin contexts.
Affordable Glow Toner Pick Hydrating Glow Toner
Mario Badescu's hybrid toner-serum delivers jojoba oil glow, PHA exfoliation, and a peptide in one bottle at 18 dollars. Generous 8oz size and visible immediate effect make it a strong drugstore pick — but the fragrance is a real consideration for sensitive skin. Better suited to the user who wants luminosity than the user who needs hypoallergenic minimalism.
Richest Sensitive Toner Sensitive Skin Toning Water - High Moisture
The dry-skin member of Muji's variant system: the same gentle, fragrance- and alcohol-free Sensitive Skin base as the Light toner, boosted with a stacked humectant blend (glycerin, sodium PCA, hyaluronic acid, trehalose) for richer, longer-lasting hydration — and, notably, still oil-free and fungal-acne safe. It's a lovely, comforting hydrator for dry skin at a giveaway price.
Soothing Value Toner Aloe Soothing Toner
A genuinely soothing, fragrance-free hydrating toner built on 80% Jeju aloe with a real hyaluronic acid dose, centella and polyglutamic acid — calming for reactive, hot or sun-stressed skin and lightly hydrating for everyone. Broadly suitable across skin types and excellent value at around $17, it's an easy, no-drama recommendation with essentially nothing to fault.
Sensitive Skin Hydrator Oat-In Silky Toner
A milky, minimalist hydrating toner that's over 68% oat-based and just ten ingredients long. The ultra-fine emulsion with meadowfoam oil gives it a silky, lightly occlusive feel that hydrates more lastingly than a watery toner, making it a lovely, affordable pick for dry and sensitive skin. The one caveat: that oil is mildly comedogenic, so oily and breakout-prone skin should think twice.
Big-Bottle NMF Hydrator Glucose Hydro Essence Toner
A clean, fragrance-free, big-bottle hydrating essence-toner that does more than the category usually bothers to: it replenishes the skin's own natural moisturizing factors with a full amino-acid panel plus PCA, lactate and urea, and adds physiologic ceramides, sugars and hyaluronic acid. Gentle, thorough, and built for liberal daily use, it's a standout value for dry and sensitive skin — only the lack of fungal-acne safety holds it back.
Clean Hyaluronic Toner Oligo Hyaluronic Acid Deep Toner
A genuinely clean, fragrance-free, fungal-acne-safe hydrating toner that does one thing exceptionally well: hydrate. Multi-molecular-weight 'oligo' hyaluronic acid with beta-glucan, panthenol and boswellia, in a remarkably short formula, plumps and soothes nearly every skin type, sensitive included. Minimalist by design — no treatment actives — and outstanding value at 200ml.
Sensitive-Skin Soother Allantoin Hypoallergenic Moisturizing Toner
A deliberately minimal, dermatologist-tested hydrating toner built for sensitive skin: soothing allantoin, centella and panthenol with a barrier ceramide, fragrance-free and in a generous 300ml size. It calms and preps reactive skin without a hint of irritation. It is supportive rather than transformative, and a touch of honey is the only thing for the bee-allergic to note — but as a gentle daily base, it does its quiet job well.
Bulk Hydration Hero Oligo Hyaluronic Acid 5000 Toner
The unglamorous workhorse that helped build Blanc Doux's name: a simple, multi-humectant hydrating toner sold in a giant 500ml bottle at a price that practically dares you to use it lavishly. It is vegan, fungal-acne safe and gentle enough for any skin type to layer daily, and it hydrates more completely than a single-HA toner thanks to beta-glucan and panthenol alongside the low-weight hyaluronic acid. It is hydration, not treatment, but as bulk hydration it is hard to beat.
The full toners guide
Modern toners are nothing like the harsh, alcohol-based astringents of the past. Today's best toners are hydrating prep steps that balance pH, add a layer of active ingredients, and help the serums that follow absorb better.
They fall into two camps — hydrating toners suitable for everyone, and exfoliating toners aimed at specific concerns — so choosing the right type matters more than the category itself.
How to choose & use toners
Choosing the right one
Hydrating toners with hyaluronic acid, glycerin, or centella work for everyone. Exfoliating toners with AHAs/BHAs are for specific concerns. Avoid anything with denatured alcohol high on the ingredient list.
How to use
Apply toner right after cleansing, either with hands (pressing it in, the K-beauty way) or a cotton pad, before serums and moisturizer. Hydrating toners can be layered for extra moisture; exfoliating toners should be used only on designated days, not daily on top of other acids. Always follow exfoliating toners with sunscreen the next morning.
Toners: frequently asked questions
Do I actually need a toner?
It's optional, not essential. A hydrating toner adds a pleasant moisture and prep step, while an exfoliating toner delivers actives. If your routine already covers hydration and exfoliation, you can skip toner without missing out.
What's the difference between hydrating and exfoliating toners?
Hydrating toners (hyaluronic acid, glycerin, centella) add moisture and suit everyone daily. Exfoliating toners (AHAs, BHAs) deliver acids for texture or acne and should be used only a few times a week to avoid over-exfoliation.
Should toners contain alcohol?
Avoid toners with denatured alcohol high on the ingredient list — they're drying and irritating. A small amount low in the formula is usually fine, but the harsh astringent toners of the past do more harm than good.
When do I apply toner in my routine?
Right after cleansing and before serums. Press hydrating toner into damp skin for best absorption; use exfoliating toners on their designated days and follow with the rest of your routine.