Toner Pads

Toner pads are the reason a lot of people stick with a Korean routine instead of abandoning it in week three. The active is already measured onto the pad. You sweep, you are done, and there is nothing to pour, decant or overapply.

What is on the pad varies far more than the format suggests. Hydrating pads are fine daily. Exfoliating ones — salicylic, PHA, AHA — are two or three nights a week at most, and treating those as a daily habit is the most common way people wreck a barrier without realising it.

So check which kind you have before it becomes automatic. Follow with a moisturiser, and see Exfoliating & Texture if buildup is the problem you are actually solving.