Anua 8 Hyaluronic Acid Catechin Calming Pad

What is this product?

A jar of 110 thin cooling pads from Korean brand Anua, meant to be left on warm or puffy areas for five to ten minutes before makeup and then wiped over the face. The watery base is led by propanediol and glycols with glycerin, niacinamide ninth, green tea catechin at a printed 200 ppm, caffeine, tannic acid, a synthetic cooling agent and eight hyaluronic forms at trace doses; there is no fragrance, essential oil, ethanol or exfoliating acid entry. A skin temperature drop of 8.1 degrees is documented with printed readings, while the pore and puffiness figures have no printed baselines.

What makes it different?

Set against the brand's PDRN glow pad, it is the cooling, makeup-prep option: green tea catechin, caffeine and a synthetic cooling agent over a hyaluronic base, used as a short mask rather than a quick wipe, with a documented skin temperature drop.

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Each name links to what we know about that ingredient.

This brand publishes its ingredient list in Korean only. Names below are the matching INCI names from the Korean Cosmetic Association ingredient dictionary, except 6 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

• Water
• Propanediol
• Methylpropanediol
• Glycereth-26
• 1,2-산다이올
• Trehalose
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• 다이에녹시에틸석시네이트
• Niacinamide
• Butylene Glycol
• Hydroxyethyl Urea
• Sodium Citrate
• Glycerin
• Coptis Japonica Root Extract
• Citric Acid
• 다이소둠이디티에이
• Methyl Diisopropyl Propionamide
• Camellia Sinensis Catechins
• Xanthan Gum
• Panthenol
• Caffeine
• Dextrin
• Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Extract
• Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
• Viola Mandshurica Flower Extract
• Diospyros Kaki Leaf Extract
• Dioscorea Japonica Root Extract
• Laminaria Japonica Extract
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract
• Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Fruit Extract
• Ulmus Davidiana Root Extract
• 에틸엑실글리세린
• Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Flower Extract
• Polygonum Cuspidatum Root Extract
• Coffea Arabica (Coffee) Seed Extract
• Zanthoxylum Piperitum Fruit Extract
• Castanea Crenata (Chestnut) Shell Extract
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• Ascorbic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Tannic Acid
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Zinc Oxide
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• 사포닌
• Triethoxycaprylylsilane
• 하이알루로닉애씨드(0.25ppo)
• Mineral Salts
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Potassium Hyaluronate

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 24 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. Here is how they read: backed by evidence: 2 · likely, not proven: 2 · partly backed: 12 · overstated ad line: 3 · no source confirms it: 1 · says nothing: 4.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

Each line is quoted as the brand published it, and each one was read on its own against the ingredient list and the documents the brand publishes.

How we read these lines

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