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Anua Heartleaf Centella Red Spot Cream

Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read

Product photo of Anua Heartleaf Centella Red Spot Cream

Read on 2026-09-10

What is this product?

A fragrance-free centella and heartleaf cream built for blemish-prone, sensitized skin: 7 percent Houttuynia Cordata (heartleaf) water opens the disclosed actives, and further down the list Anua prints all four TECA centella compounds by name, madecassic acid at 66ppm, asiaticoside and madecassoside each at 36ppm, and asiatic acid at 18ppm, alongside a six-type ceramide complex (NP, NG, NS, AP, AS, EOP) for barrier support. It carries Korea's 'whitening and wrinkle-improvement' dual functional-cosmetic filing on niacinamide and adenosine, though the brand does not say which ingredient the filing rests on or at what level. No pH is published. No third-party retail listing was read for this record (three of the four URLs attempted returned http-403 and the fourth was never requested under robots-disallow), so distribution outside the brand's own store is unconfirmed rather than absent.

What makes it different?

The centella disclosure is the specific thing to know: most centella creams name asiaticoside or madecassoside without a number, but this one prints all four TECA compounds with ppm figures, 66/36/36/18, which lets a reader compare it against another centella product on more than a marketing label. The other point worth naming is what is missing rather than present: no fragrance and no drying alcohol turned up in a 67-entry list, but neither did a disclosed pH, a cited clinical test, or a container-form description, and the only channel confirmed for this record is the brand's own store.

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 3 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

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

We could not place these in the list above: 마카다미아씨오일, 세테아릴올리베이트, 솔비탄올리베이트, 하이드로제네이티드올리브오일데실에스터, 수크로오스폴리스테아레이트, 세틸팔미테이트, 폴리글리세릴-3다이스테아레이트, 폴리글리세릴-6카프릴레이트, 폴리글리세릴-4카프레이트, 글리세릴스테아레이트, 글리세릴스테아레이트시트레이트, 솔비탄팔미테이트, 솔비탄아이소스테아레이트, 솔비탄올리에이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 4 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

backed by evidence1

  • Whitening / wrinkle improvement functional cosmetic
    Korean original

    미백/ 주름개선 기능성 화장품

likely, not proven1

  • For all skin types
    Korean original

    모든 피부에 사용

partly backed2

  • Take an appropriate amount and spread evenly on skin
    Korean original

    적당량을 덜어 피부에 골고루 펴 발라줍니다.

  • You may also use it thickly on irritated localized areas
    Korean original

    자극 받은 국소 부위에 도톰하게 얹듯이 사용해도 좋습니다.

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