Vegan BHA & Matcha Ampoule
Reviewed by SerumTruth Editorial · Updated July 2026
A mild, honestly low-dose BHA ampoule pitched at oily, blemish-prone skin that wants gentle daily exfoliation for the appearance of clearer-looking pores rather than a strong peel-style treatment. The matcha and neem lean calming more than active, and the peptide list at the bottom is dressing, not a real multi-active formula. Fairly priced for a light, everyday pore-and-sebum ampoule, not the pick if you want a stronger, higher-percentage BHA.
- Evidence21 / 30
Strength of the research behind the key actives
- Salicylic Acid: moderate evidence
The average of the key actives’ evidence grades.
- Potency21 / 25
Dosed at studied levels, not fairy-dusted
- Salicylic Acid (0.5%): dosed at a studied level
How strongly the actives are dosed, led by the strongest, not how many there are.
- Delivery & stability14 / 20
Delivery tech + packaging that protects fragile actives
- Delivery: standard
- Packaging: clear dropper
- No fragile actives here, so packaging barely moves the score.
Delivery tech plus packaging, and packaging only counts when actives are fragile.
- Formulation6 / 10
Disclosure, active breadth, and ingredient generation
- 1 of 1 actives disclose a concentration
- 1 key active (breadth credit caps at 3)
- No current-generation or synergy bonus
Disclosure, active breadth, and current-generation or synergistic actives.
- Value15 / 15
What a month of use costs vs. the category
- About $5 per month to use
- $18 for 30 ml, used about once a day (about 0.3 ml each time), so a bottle lasts about 3.3 months
- Frequency is set by Salicylic Acid, which is used no more than 7x a week, so a bottle stretches further
What a month of use costs: full marks at $6 a month or less, the floor at $60 a month or more.
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What’s inside
| Active | Disclosed | Dose |
|---|---|---|
| Salicylic Acid | 0.5% | Studied |
A vegan, water-light ampoule built on a brand-stated 0.5% salicylic acid, at the gentle end of the studied BHA range, with neem (Melia azadirachta) leaf and flower extract and Jeju matcha (Camellia sinensis leaf extract) for antioxidant and calming support, in a clear glass dropper. A long tail of peptides, among them tripeptide-1, copper tripeptide-1, acetyl tetrapeptides and palmitoyl tripeptide-5, sits near the end of the list after preservative and chelating ingredients, so it reads as a marketing-forward peptide dusting rather than a dosed second active. Salicylic acid is not light-sensitive, so the dropper suits it fine.
How it’s delivered
Air- and light-sensitive actives (vitamin C, copper peptides) lose potency fast in the wrong packaging, so delivery and the bottle are scored, not just what’s on the label.
The actives, explained
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