  Recent theory of the light-induced medium magnetization (inverse Faraday
effect, IFE) performed by a transversely-limited circularly-polarized light
beam [Phys. Rev. B 91, 020411 (2015)] predicts the existence of a
"demagnetization current" (DC) at the beam periphery which, apparently, acts
oppositely to the light-induced rotational motion of the charge carriers inside
the beam and thus reduces the IFE by the factor of 2. In this note, taking the
longitudinal component of the beam into account, we show that the peripheral DC
is two times higher than was calculated before. Nevertheless, this circumstance
does not cancel the IFE because the DC, as a sort of Stokes-drift current in
plasma [Phys. Rev. E 105, 065208 (2022)], is accompanied by the additional
"magnetization current" of the opposite direction.
