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Sulwhasoo Essential Revitalizing Water EX

Ingredients and claims, checked

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Last checked October 2, 2026

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What is it like at a glance?

What the ingredients do

Hydration leads, with 9 of 46 ingredients.

Hydration
9
Skin protection
3
Softening
1
Moisture seal
1

By skin type

  • SensitiveUse with care

Piboo’s rating from user reports.

Worth knowing

  • Contains fragrance
  • Has fragrance allergens
  • Has a fungal-acne trigger

What is this product?

What to expect
It's made for better hydration and calmer skin.
When
Morning and evening

A hydrating toner with a gel texture that spreads easily. It sinks into the skin quickly. It comes in a 150 ml size.

Who is it for?

Good for

  • Dry, dehydrated skin

Less suited to

  • People avoiding fragrance
  • Sensitive skin

What to watch for?

Watch-outs

  • Contains fragrance
  • Has fragrance allergens (Limonene, LINALOOL)
  • If you get fungal acne: SORBITAN ISOSTEARATE, Polysorbate 60

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Tap a name to read about that ingredient.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

What the claims add up to

Only partly backed:
better hydration · calmer skin · better barrier support
Don't count on:
firmer skin
See each claim, checked (27)

Claims, checked

  • Skin tired from various lifestyle habits and external environmental stimuli accumulates reactive oxygen species and glycation products, loses its innate vitality, and comes to experience rough and weak skin.plausible, not tested
  • Clear and strong skin through intensive moisturizing and vitality carepartly backed
  • #11YearsInARow NO.1 #TripleMoisturizingCarepartly backed
  • Moisturizing,Vitalitypartly backed
  • Antioxidant & vitality effects strengthened by proprietary ingredientspartly backed
  • Contains global proprietary ingredient 1 Seolhwatomyeongdan ™ that delivers clear skinpartly backed
  • 11 years in a row NO.1 * Jaum Water, an unrivaled steady seller containing Sulwhasoo wisdompartly backed
  • However, skin that becomes clear and transparent in just 7 days: skin texture + 29 % * transparency + 26 % * * self-scoring resultspartly backed
  • Triple care with different depths against various external stimuli: moisturizing-soothing-barrier 10 layers *partly backed
  • Inner skin moisturizing + 105 % * physical irritation damage soothing + 81 % * chemical irritation barrier repair * human application test resultspartly backed
  • Powerful antioxidant effect evolved to 99.8%* *Seolhwatomyeongdan™ In-vitro test resultspartly backed
  • The Sulwhasoo Heritage & Science Center combined plum blossom extract with carnosine and glutathione through the convergence of the brand's beauty philosophy and modern science and technology to create 'Seolhwatomyeongdan™', which has powerful revitalizing efficacy.partly backed
  • New anti-glycation effect strengthened by 1.4 times *partly backed
  • A water-gel toner that absorbs refreshingly and moistly. It applies coolly and lightly to the skin and absorbs refreshingly and moistly deep into the skin, delivering a full feeling of moisture.partly backed
  • Clear and strong skin felt after 4 weeks of use: feeling that skin became clearer + 90.9 % * feeling that inner dryness was relieved + 93.9 % * feeling that skin became healthier + 90.9 % * * customer satisfaction resultspartly backed
  • * Kantar Korea moisturizing skin & lotion market purchase amount, based on June '13 ~ June '24partly backed
  • Beyond moisturizing, fundamental well-aging care through antioxidant&anti-glycationoverstated
  • The completely renewed Jaum Water EX replenishes the skin with ‘潤, meaning moist/glossy’ and delivers ‘活力, vitality’, offering a fundamental solution for well-aging care.overstated
  • Skin-friendly comfort formulation 10 FREE formulano supporting source found
  • 1 Holds patents for plum blossom extract in 5 countriesno supporting source found
  • The plum blossom extract obtained through an 8-step process over 160 hours concentrates the life force of nature and delivers vitality to tired skin.no supporting source found
  • Seolhwatomyeongdan ™ plum blossom extract global patented ingredient 1 carnosine 99% high purity glutathione 98% high purity * Seolhwatomyeongdan ™ In-vitro test resultsno supporting source found
  • Sulwhasoo's proprietary ingredient Jaumdan ®* completed by adding 3 types of oriental herbal plant extracts: soothing-moisturizing-barrier triple care * A representative Sulwhasoo ingredient that activates the skin's innate healthy ability by extracting 5 ingredients, Polygonatum, peony, lotus, lily, and Rehmannia, using Sulwhasoo's proprietary processing method.no supporting source found
  • Dermatologist test completedno supporting source found
  • Hypoallergenic test completedno supporting source found
  • Essential Line & Yoonjo Essence The start of healthy well-aging care. The Essential Line, which completes clear and firmly radiant skin, provides a more complete effect when used with Yoonjo Essence, a skin-based care.no supporting source found
  • Clear, rising vitality care. Plum blossom extract. In the green plum blossom buds that bloom through the frozen snow of deep winter, powerful antioxidant & anti-glycation energy is condensed.nothing specific to check

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