Hanyul Pure Artemisia Calming pH-Balancing Fluid

What is this product?

A light, fragranced Korean hydrating fluid in a 125ml bottle, built around mugwort: 황해쑥잎수 sits fifth in a 30 entry list at a printed 18,944 ppm, with 판테놀 and a centella extract alongside it. Water leads, the oil phase is three silicones and three short chain esters, and there is no alcohol, no exfoliating acid and no essential oil, which suits sensitised and combination skin that wants a soothing layer without weight. It holds almost nothing in, so dry skin will want a cream over it. Two things to weigh: fragrance is declared and is a marketed feature rather than a trace, and the headline four times soothing figure is a laboratory comparison against the brand's own centella extract rather than a result measured on skin.

What makes it different?

The mugwort concentration is printed inside the ingredient entry itself, so the headline number can be checked against the list rather than taken on trust, which is unusual for a soothing claim. The brand also reconciles its sourcing language to the ingredient name in its own copy. Set against that, the comparative soothing figure rests on an in house laboratory comparison, and a second surface publishes a substantially different ingredient record under the same product name.

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 2 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Propanediol
• Glycerin
• Methyl Trimethicone
• Artemisia Argyi Leaf Water
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• PCA Dimethicone
• 천궁수
• 왜당귀뿌리수
• Silica
• Panthenol
• Butylene Glycol
• Polymethylsilsesquioxane
• Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
• Polyglyceryl-6 Caprylate
• Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Tromethamine
• Xanthan Gum
• Glyceryl Caprylate
• Fragrance
• 2,3-Butanediol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Disodium EDTA
• Lecithin
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• Inulin Lauryl Carbamate
• Artemisia Argyi Leaf Extract
• Centella Asiatica Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract
• Tocopherol

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 13 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 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

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