Anua PDRN HYALURONIC ACID CAPSULE 100 SERUM

What is this product?

The strongest part of ANUA PDRN Hyaluronic Acid Capsule 100 Serum is not the PDRN: that sits at 100ppm, a trace, while the hyaluronic acid family is the part of the formula you can actually feel. What it does carry is a government-reviewed dual registration for brightening and wrinkle improvement, earned by niacinamide and adenosine rather than by the ingredients on the front of the bottle.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it: PDRN and an eight-form hyaluronic acid complex are co-branded on the same label, and the brightening and wrinkle claims sit on an official registration rather than on marketing copy alone. The catch is that the co-branded half is the trace half, so what you are mostly buying is a well-built hyaluronic acid serum with niacinamide and adenosine doing the graded work.

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.

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Propanediol
• Glycerin
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Niacinamide
• Glyceryl Oleate
• Lauryl Glucoside
• Myristyl Glucoside
• Polyglyceryl-6 Laurate
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Glutathione
• Hydrolyzed Collagen
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Coptis Japonica Root Extract
• Adenosine
• Sodium DNA
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Potassium Hyaluronate
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract
• Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract
• Coccinia Indica Fruit Extract
• Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract
• Ocimum Sanctum Leaf Extract
• Citric Acid
• Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract
• Corallina Officinalis Extract
• Sodium Citrate
• Pentylene Glycol

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: Glyceryl Oleate, Polyglyceryl-6 Laurate, Hydrogenated Lecithin

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 5 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 of them hold up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

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

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

• Anua PDRN Hyaluronic Acid 100 Moisturizing CreamAnother product in the same category

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• Should you buy a PDRN cream or a PDRN serum?The format is not the variable that decides this. Three Korean PDRN products read end to end, and the thousand fold gap between what their labels disclose.
• Hyaluronic acid at Olive Young: what six labels actually discloseSix Korean hyaluronic acid toners, serums and ampoules compared on the one thing that separates them, whether the brand tells you how much is in there.
• What PDRN actually is, and how much of it is in the bottlePDRN is on the front of a lot of Korean skincare now. Three products disclose how much they hold, and the numbers are smaller than the packaging implies.