Review: Etude House Wonder Pore Freshner 500ml

Hey guys! Today I'll be reviewing Etude House's Wonder Pore Freshner in the bigger version, which contains 500ml of product. There are a difference in packaging between the smaller version and this, but I'll talk more about it later in this post. I paid $8.57 for this, thanks to HonestSkins -30% sale last month, you can check out my haul and review here. On to the review!

Description: This product is total solution for pore care, preventing enlarged pores, less firmer skin and skin troubles by eliminating what hurts skin health from within.
  
7 in 1 Total Pore Solution

• Deep cleanse pores
• Control sebum
• Keep the ideal pH balance 4.5 
• Tighten pores
• Brighten skin tone
• Prevent enlarging of pores
• Prevent skin troubles

Excuse me, but I have to comment on this a little bit here... Soo skin firmness is sometimes a good thing and sometimes a bad? What the hell Korean cosmetic companies? For example I have a few sheetmasks, which say that they will make your skin firmer? And this one makes your skin less firmer? Confused.

How to use: Soak the make up cotton with the Freshner and wipe your face from the center of your face to the outside. With gentle patting, let the skin absorb the leftover Freshner. You can carry the Freshner in a mist type container and apply onto your skin when there is too much sebum or you have itchy feeling.
 Btw, am I the only one who has the urge to write Freshener instead of Freshner? 

Packaging: As I mentioned before, this is the bigger version containing 500ml of product. The bottle is plastic and it has a pump dispenser with a cup-like thing, where you put your cotton swab/ball and push. Pretty handy, I think. It gives you a nice amount at one pump, but sometimes it just feels like its not enough and two pumps feels too much. Meh. Sometimes when pumping it somehow squirts and I have never actually seen where it comes from but it happens, even though I have my cotton swab covering the whole cup-like thing. A little bit confusing and disturbing, but I can live with it. I actually got this bigger version because of the dispenser, the smaller version containing 250ml doesn't have it. The dispenser is very handy and you don't have to lift the bottle and accidentally spill it all over or anything and you don't have to worry about accidentally getting too much of it.

Consistency: Well it is watery and very liquid, just like toners normally or atleast like western toners.

Smell: It smells faintly like alcohol, but not too much. I can barely smell it.

My Experience: I can't say for sure how effective this has been alone, for I started using Skinfoods Peach Sake Pore Serum (reviewed here!) around the same time. My pores really do appear smaller and the oil production of my face has lessened, but the baddest oily area aka my nose still likes to go oily, but I'm okay with it. I can't measure the pH of my skin, I can't say anything about the pH "correcting" claim. I don't know much about the moisturizing, but this makes my skin feel less tight after cleansing. My skintone has actually gotten more even, but I can't say for sure that it is solely because of this stuff. It doesn't feel too harsh on my combination skin and it doesn't irritate or anything.
Random thought! What if the moisturizing part means that it doesn't dry out your skin, even though it contains alcohol? Yes, this contains alcohol, beware.

The Summary:  As a toner, this does it's job in any left over dirt from cleansing and it really feels like it balances my skin after cleansing. Sounds a bit cray cray, but no can do.
I think I will repurchase, if I don't come across anything more interesting. After all 500ml is a lot, so I think it will last me a long time. It also is pretty cheap, so why not!  

So that is about it for now, buh bye ♥