Review | All 3 Muji Light Toning Waters: Light, Moisture & High Moisture

In today’s post, I will be sharing my thoughts and comparison of 3 Muji Toners: Muji Light Toning Water Light, Muji Light Toning Water Moisture, and Muji Light Toning Water High Moisture. I actually used them earlier last year along with cleansers from the same line but didn’t get around to writing a review until now.

Description

Muji Light Toning Water Light, Light Toning Water Moisture & Light Toning Water High Moisture: A skincare series using natural water from Kamaishi, Iwate-ken Prefecture. Leaves your dry sensitive skin refreshed and hydrated. Added skin protecting ingredients purslane extract and grapefruit seed extract as well as Lipdure (polyquaternium-51) for moisture retention. (High Moisture version also contains Hyaluronic Acid for more moisture and skin protection). Low Irritant and gentle enough for delicate skin.
No fragrance. No artificial colors. No mineral oils. Mildly acidic. Paraben free. Alcohol free. Allergy tested (not a guarentee to be allergen free).

Period After Opening (PAO): 3 Months.

How to use:
After cleansing your face, take a sufficient amount in your hands or on a cotton pad, and smooth over your face.

*As per description on product packaging

Ingredients

Muji Light Toning Water Light: Water, Dipropylene Glycol, Glycerin, PEG-32, Glycosyl Trehalose, Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate, Portulaca Oleracea (Purslane) Extract, Plyquaternium-51, Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Seed Extract, Sodium PCA, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Allantoin, Butylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol.

Muji Light Toning Water Moisture: Water, Glycerin, Dipropylene Glycol, PEG-32, Glycosyl Trehalose, Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate, Portulaca Oleracea (Purslane) Extract, Plyquaternium-51, Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Seed Extract, Sodium PCA, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Allantoin, Butylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol.

Muji Light Toning Water – High Moisture: Water, Dipropylene Glycol, Glycerin, PEG-32, Diglycerin, Glycosyl Trehalose, Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate, Hyaluronic Acid NA, Allantoin, Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Seed Extract, Plyquaternium-51, Portulaca Oleracea (Purslane) Extract, Butylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium PCA, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid.

Quantity & Packaging

I have the light and moisture versions in 400ml size bottles but they are also available in 200ml and 50ml sizes. I have the high moisture versions in the 50ml travel size bottle. I realised 400ml is too much considering the expiry period after opening is only 3 months. That being said it’s been over a year since I opened them and they don’t smell or look bad.

They come in aesthetically pleasing minimalistic clear see-through plastic bottles with simple black writing in Japanese and English. The bottles have an ml marker on the side so you can keep track of how much you are using and how much is left.

To use 400ml within 3 months from opening, you’d have to use roughly 133ml per month, which was definitely not possible for me, especially as I had 2 versions open at the same time, so a total of 800ml to use in 3 months. It wasn’t even possible with the help of my husband. So in future, I’d get 200ml of one version only. A fellow blogger recently mentioned in the comments section of another post, that it might only be possible for her to use that much in the given timeframe with daily toner masking, and if you do happen to get one of these massive bottles then I recommend to follow that, and you can also use it to tone your body, however I doubt anything other than toner masking will get the quantity down in time.

Scent

Neither of them have any artificial fragrance but there is a hint of natural freshness that comes from it if you get a good sniff out the bottle, although it’s undetectable once on the skin.

Appearance & Texture

Clear thin runny liquid very reminiscent of water. The ‘Light’ version is just a touch less slippery than the ‘Moisture’ version and absorbs quicker but it’s really hard to tell the difference sometimes. Even the ingredient list is exactly the same for these 2 versions with just the position of Glycerine being different, so I suppose the ‘Moisture’ version has more Glycerine, hence why it feels a tiny bit more slippery. The ‘High Moisture’ version contains a slightly higher percentage of hyaluronic acid which gives it a lot more viscosity and a smooth slippery glide and slightly tacky finish until it fully absorbs.

My Experience

These toners are very basic and get the job done for hydrating the skin. The ‘Light’ version is suitable for oily to combination skin types that want a comfortable lightweight hydrating toner that absorbs quickly without any residue. It’s also suitable to use as a fine mist throughout the day to refresh your skin whenever needed. As mentioned in the texture section above, the ‘Moisture’ version is very similar to the ‘Light’ version but if you are really in tune with how the slightest differences feel on your skin you’ll probably feel a touch more slip and be left with more of a hydrated bounce to your cheeks, so I think it’s suitable for combination skin types. The ‘High Moisture’ version is the most different out of the three, you can definitely feel the humectant rich plush hydrating smooth glide across your skin and it does leave a sticky residue behind until it fully absorbs, so dry skin types might prefer it.

I finished the ‘Moisture’ version in the first quarter of the year, and finished the ‘Light’ version a month ago, both well past their period after opening date. I say I “finished” the ‘Light’ version but actually when the bottle was just under a third full, I had attached a spray nozzle to it which dispensed a good amount of product for my skin to be hydrated but didn’t dispense enough to even notice the product going down. It looked like I wasn’t even using it. I had to throw the rest of it out as it was reaching almost 2 years since opening. I made the mistake of purchasing the 400ml bottles which are impossible to finish within the 3 months period after opening indication that’s on the packaging. 400ml is probably for households with multiple people sharing the product, but as it’s just me and my husband, the smaller 200ml or 50ml bottles would have been better.

I’m now left with a mini ‘High Moisture’ version, which isn’t my favourite for my skin type but I still think it is the most worth it, firstly because it’s a smaller size so I can finish it quickly within 3 months, and secondly because all three toners feel somewhat similar and lightweight but ‘High Moisture’ has 1 more humectant ingredient whereas ‘Light’ and ‘Moisture’ seem to have the same ingredients at different concentrations.

Will I repurchase? I do like the ‘Light’ version of the toner for my skin type so I’d consider getting a smaller size of that version in future.