Anua
Anua PDRN 100 Hyaluronic Acid Booster Toner
Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read
Read on 2026-09-06
What is this product?
Anua's PDRN 100 Hyaluronic Acid Booster Toner is worth picking if you want a fragrance-free 250 mL hydrating toner that actually prints its numbers, because it is one of the few PDRN toners that does: 100ppm sodium DNA, plus hyaluronic acid at 0.5ppm and 0.05ppm, all on the label. Just read those figures as what they are, since 100ppm is 0.01 percent and the hydration is really coming from the glycerin and glycols at positions two through five of 41 ingredients. If you have a plant sensitivity, note that 13 of those 41 entries are printed as extracts and 11 of the 13 are plant derived, all of them inside the band from position six to twenty one. Anua publishes no pH, no skin test and no consumer rating for this toner.
What makes it different?
Printing a figure for the ingredient a product is named after is rare in this cohort, and Anua does it three times: sodium DNA at 100ppm, hydrolyzed hyaluronic acid at 0.5ppm and a hyaluronic acid collagen crosspolymer at 0.05ppm. The second separator cuts the other way, and it takes two numbers rather than one. Positions six to twenty one of the 41 are a sixteen slot band, 13 of those slots hold entries printed as extracts, and 11 of the 13 are plant derived, which is the part to read closely if plant extracts have ever bothered your skin.
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.
Key ingredientWorth a closer look
- Water
- Butylene Glycol
- Glycerin
- Pentylene Glycol
- Propanediol
- Saccharum Officinarum (Sugarcane) Extract
- Xylitylglucoside
- Glycine Soja (Soybean) Seed Extract
- Malachite Extract
- Xylitol
- Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract
- Vincetoxicum Atratum Extract
- Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract
- Coccinia Indica Fruit Extract
- Althaea Rosea Flower Extract
- Aloe Barbadensis Flower Extract
- Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
- Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract
- Ocimum Sanctum Leaf Extract
- Corallina Officinalis Extract
- Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract
- 1,2-Hexanediol
- Betaine
- Hydroxyacetophenone
- Panthenol
- Ethylhexylglycerin
- Anhydroxylitol
- Allantoin
- Sodium Dna
- Dipropylene Glycol
- Octanediol
- Phosphatidylcholine
- Tocopherol
- Hyaluronic Acid
- Hydrolyzed Collagen
- Crosspolymer
- C12-13 Alketh-9
- Dipotassium Phosphate
- Acetyl Glutamine
- Copper Tripeptide-1
- Cellulose Gum
- Disodium EDTA
- Xanthan Gum
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 4 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.
backed by evidence2
- Functional cosmetics: Not applicable for the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety review approval
Korean original
기능성 화장품 식품의약품안전처 심사필 여부 해당 사항 없음
- Take an appropriate amount and spread evenly over the skin.
Korean original
적당량을 덜어 피부에 골고루 펴 발라줍니다.
likely, not proven1
- Use on all skin types
Korean original
모든 피부에 사용
partly backed1
- PDRN 100 Hyaluronic Acid Booster Toner
Korean original
PDRN 100 히알루론산 부스터 토너
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.
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