MAMONDE Calming Shot Azulene Ampoule

What is this product?

A Korean water gel ampoule from MAMONDE, sold in a single 50 ml size from the brand's own storefront as part of its Calming Shot Azulene line. It does something the Korean label format does not require: two of its twenty entries carry concentrations printed inside the ingredient list itself, niacinamide at 40,000 parts per million in third place and guaiazulene at 100 parts per million at eighteen. Those are the two actives the whole page runs on, one for the whitening functional positioning and one for calming, alongside a chamomile flower water at nine. The base is water and polyols with a single lipid entry, a silica, and two gelling agents, a carbomer and an agar, which is the pair behind the beaded gel texture the brand describes. A menthoxypropanediol at sixteen is the cooling agent behind the temperature figures, and there is no colourant at all, so the blue colour traces to the azulene as the brand says. A fragrance entry sits at nineteen, which is the trade-off on a page built around calming and irritation testing. Fourteen efficacy figures come from one institute, one window and one panel of thirty women, with no report linked and only one figure carrying a stated comparison arm, and two marked by the brand itself as self scored. The page carries no statutory information panel and no functional filing number, and no English ingredient column, so no pH figure and no INCI list are recorded. No lived use reports were collected.

What makes it different?

Prints concentrations for two entries inside the ingredient list rather than only in advertising copy, at 40,000 parts per million for the niacinamide in third place and 100 parts per million for the guaiazulene at eighteen, which makes the whitening positioning checkable against the label instead of against a slogan. The colour story survives the same check: no colourant appears in the twenty entries, so the blue traces to the azulene exactly as the brand claims, and the brand prints its own warning that the colour shifts with temperature and light. An agar beside a carbomer is the printed basis for the beaded gel texture it advertises, and neither of the two landed records compared here carries an agar at all. The trade-offs sit on the same surfaces: a fragrance entry at nineteen on a page built around calming, a cooling agent at sixteen doing the work the temperature figures report, fourteen efficacy figures from one panel of thirty with no report linked and only one stated comparison arm, and a storefront page that carries no statutory information panel at all.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Glycerin
• Niacinamide
• Propanediol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Betaine
• Silica
• PPG-13-Decyltetradeceth-24
• 마트리카리아꽃수
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Carbomer
• Agar
• Tromethamine
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Sodium Metaphosphate
• Menthoxypropanediol
• Butylene Glycol
• Guaiazulene
• Fragrance
• Tocopherol

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: 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이글리세라이드

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 28 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.

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.

• COSRX The Niacinamide 15 SerumThe stronger one of the two