Hanyul Pure Artemisia Calming Water Cream

What is this product?

A soothing, hydrating 55ml face cream built around an unusually concentrated mugwort water, best chosen for its disclosed but partly self-scored clinical figures rather than its 4x-stronger-than-cica headline. Hanyul discloses an outside institution, a 30-woman panel and dated testing (late 2022) behind a -66 percent redness reduction at 30 minutes, a +100 percent dry-trouble score immediately after use, a +10 percent texture improvement at two weeks, a 3x longer hydration result at three days, a +113 percent barrier-recovery result an hour after use, and a satisfaction survey (100 percent for spreading smoothly, 93 percent each for oil-water balance and a fresh finish). The +100 percent figure and the satisfaction survey are panel self-scoring rather than instrument readings, the 3x figure compares against the brand's own earlier formula, and the +113 percent figure reaches this record through the brand's amoremall listing rather than its own product page. The sensitivity, dermatologist, allergy and acne-suitability badges carry no disclosed methodology at all. The four-times-stronger-than-centella claim is a separate matter: an in-vitro, brand-internal comparison rather than an independently tested one.

What makes it different?

The formula leads with 황해쑥잎수 at a printed 35,724 ppm fifth on a 39-item list, an unusually large and unusually early concentration for a botanical water, which is the ingredient basis for the brand's water-not-diluted framing. Weigh that disclosure against two things: the headline 4x-cica claim is an in-vitro, brand-internal comparison with no disclosed concentrations, and the dramatic +100 percent immediate dry-trouble figure comes from a self-scored panel rather than an instrument. Then weigh a third thing: the mugwort-water number is not one number. The two other sizes archived here print their own, a 50ml Aritaum listing at 25,170 ppm and an 80ml bulk set at 12,585 ppm, and the bulk set is a different formula besides, adding shea butter and botanical extracts the 55ml list does not carry and declaring linalool, limonene and geraniol individually where the 55ml list prints only 향료. The concentration recorded here is the highest of the three, so the formula on this page should not be assumed to apply to every size on shelf.

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.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Glycerin
• Butylene Glycol
• Dicaprylyl Ether
• Artemisia Argyi Leaf Water
• Methyl Trimethicone
• Niacinamide
• Bis-Hydroxyethoxypropyl Dimethicone
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• C14-22 Alcohols
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• Panthenol
• Glyceryl Stearate Citrate
• Hydrogenated Poly(C6-14 Olefin)
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Stearic Acid
• Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
• Glyceryl Polymethacrylate
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Polymethylsilsesquioxane
• Palmitic Acid
• Arachidyl Alcohol
• C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside
• Fragrance
• Glyceryl Caprylate
• Behenyl Alcohol
• 2,3-Butanediol
• Arachidyl Glucoside
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Disodium EDTA
• Sorbitan Isostearate
• Propanediol
• Lecithin
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• Glucose
• Tocopherol
• Inulin Lauryl Carbamate
• Artemisia Argyi Leaf Extract
• Centella Asiatica Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract

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: 세틸에틸헥사노에이트, 글리세릴스테아레이트, 솔비탄아이소스테아레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 15 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 9 of them look likely, though none are proven outright.

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

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• On a mugwort label, the big number is leaf waterMugwort appears on 63 Korean labels and six print an amount. Four share one shape, with the leaf water and the extract more than three thousandfold apart.