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Anua PDRN Hyaluronic Acid Moisture Cleansing Foam

Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read

Read on 2026-09-11

What is this product?

Reach for this one if a hydrating cleanser that doubles as a one-minute wash-off pack fits the routine, and skip it if a PDRN cleanser is expected to do what a PDRN serum does. The formula is built on amino-acid and betaine surfactants rather than a soap base, and it carries an unusually deep humectant block for a rinse-off product: eight distinct hyaluronate-family ingredients plus panthenol, allantoin, hydrolyzed collagen and ceramide NP. Sodium DNA, the ingredient behind the PDRN name, sits 23rd of 51 with no disclosed concentration, and the brand publishes no test of its own for this cleanser.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it from a plain hydrating foam. First, the directions field defines a second mode, a one-minute mask application on dry skin, which is why it is filed as a wash-off pack rather than only a cleanser. Second, the humectant tail is unusually long for something designed to be rinsed off, stacking eight hyaluronate-family forms of differing molecular weight alongside ceramide NP. Neither the PDRN content nor the claimed hydration benefit carries a published figure, so the formula reads as well-constructed rather than proven.

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 1 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.