Where does this toner go in my routine?

Straight after cleansing, morning and evening, while the face is still damp. Anything thinner than a toner goes on before it, and anything richer goes on after. If you are adding it to a routine you already like, give it a week on its own first, so what you see is the Copper Tripeptide-1 and not three changes at once.

Does this toner contain fragrance?

Yes. The ingredient list names Fragrance. It sits on the panel printed on this page, so you can read the position for yourself before you buy. If fragrance components are something you avoid, this toner is not the one.

What else is on the list besides Copper Tripeptide-1?

Lysine, Histidine and Arginine. The order they are printed in on this toner's panel is the order on the box, so you can see where Copper Tripeptide-1 sits relative to them. Further down the same panel: Magnesium Chloride, Potassium Chloride and Calcium Chloride.

HANYUL

Pure Artemisia Watery Calming Toner 150ml

Name: HANYUL Pure Artemisia Watery Calming Toner 150ml
Brand: HANYUL
SKU: 4943046497
Price: 32.5 USD
Availability: InStock

HANYUL Pure Artemisia Watery Calming Toner is a 150ml toner whose ingredient list carries Copper Tripeptide-1 alongside Lysine and Histidine.

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$32.50

150 ml

$21.67 per 100 ml

Korean-market formula
Ships from California or direct from Korea
Korean barcode and batch code intact

Suited to: Normal skinDry or dehydrated skinCombination skinSensitized or easily reactive skin

Helps with: Everyday hydrationA layered Korean routineDullness or uneven texture

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How it works

The Pure Artemisia Watery Calming Toner is a 150ml toner, used straight after cleansing, morning and evening, while the face is still damp. The peptide it is built around is Copper Tripeptide-1, named nineteenth on its own ingredient list. The same list carries Lysine, Histidine and Arginine, so the peptide is not the only thing on it worth naming. How much of the Copper Tripeptide-1 stays on the skin, and for how long, is decided by the toner format rather than by the list alone. HANYUL sells this Copper Tripeptide-1 toner in Korea, and this is that version.

Key benefits

Copper Tripeptide-1, the peptide this toner is built around
Lysine, Histidine and Arginine on the same list, amino acids
Magnesium Chloride on the same list, a mineral
Potassium Chloride and Calcium Chloride further down the same list
Mannose and Xylose further down the same list
Copper Tripeptide-1 named nineteenth on the manufacturer list printed on this page

Key actives

9Lysineamino acid

Lysine is an essential amino acid used as a conditioning humectant in an amino acid complex. The panel names it ninth on this toner's list, beside Copper Tripeptide-1.

All products with Lysine

11Magnesium Chloridemineral

Magnesium Chloride is the magnesium salt that makes sea water taste bitter. In a formula it is a mineral salt in the water phase and helps set gum gels. It is named eleventh on this toner's list, alongside Copper Tripeptide-1.

All products with Magnesium Chloride

16Histidineamino acid

Histidine is an amino acid used as a humectant and a buffer, part of skin's own free amino acid pool. The panel names it sixteenth on this toner's list, beside Copper Tripeptide-1.

All products with Histidine

19Copper Tripeptide-1peptide

Copper Tripeptide-1 is three amino acids bound to a copper ion, and the classic firming peptide in cosmetic chemistry. It is blue in solution, which is often why a serum carrying it is tinted, and it is used for the look of firmness and fine lines. On this toner's own ingredient list it is named nineteenth.

All products with Copper Tripeptide-1

20Arginineamino acid

Arginine is an amino acid that does two jobs here: it holds water in the outer layer of skin, and it neutralises acidic gelling agents, which is why it often stands in for a synthetic pH adjuster. The panel names it twentieth on this toner's list, beside Copper Tripeptide-1.

All products with Arginine

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Water solvent: Water is the base almost every serum, toner and cream is built on. It dissolves the water-loving ingredients and sets how light the finished texture feels. On an INCI list it is usually first, which only means it is the largest single ingredient by weight.
Propanediol humectant: Propanediol is a plant-derived glycol used in place of propylene glycol. It hydrates, carries actives into solution, and gives a lighter, less sticky slip than glycerin at the same strength.
Glycerin humectant: Glycerin is the most used humectant in skincare. It draws water into the outer layer of skin and holds it there, and it is one of the very few ingredients whose hydrating effect is settled science rather than marketing. Higher amounts feel tacky, which is why it is usually blended.
Artemisia Princeps Leaf Water (4200 Ppm) plant extract: Korean mugwort distillate, used in place of part of the plain water in a formula. It is far more dilute than the extract.
Glucose humectant: Glucose is a simple sugar used as a humectant and as food for the ferment ingredients in the same formula. It hydrates mildly and adds a soft slip.
Lysine amino acid: Lysine is an essential amino acid used as a conditioning humectant in an amino acid complex.
Lecithin emulsifier: Lecithin is a soy or sunflower-derived phospholipid, the same class of molecule cell membranes are built from. It emulsifies oil into water and is the basis of the liposomes formulators use to carry actives.
Magnesium Chloride mineral: Magnesium Chloride is the magnesium salt that makes sea water taste bitter. In a formula it is a mineral salt in the water phase and helps set gum gels.
Mannose sugar: Mannose is a simple sugar closely related to glucose. It is used as a humectant and as a building block in the polysaccharide blends that hold water on the surface.
Xylose sugar: Xylose is a simple wood sugar. It is a humectant, and it is the unit the xylitol-based hydration blends are built from.
Histidine amino acid: Histidine is an amino acid used as a humectant and a buffer, part of skin's own free amino acid pool.
Potassium Chloride mineral: Potassium Chloride is a mineral salt used to bring a formula closer to the salt balance of skin, most often as part of a sea-water or mineral-water blend.

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Calcium Chloride mineral: Calcium Chloride is a mineral salt used in traces to balance a formula and to firm up gels made with alginate or gellan gum.
Copper Tripeptide-1 peptide: Copper Tripeptide-1 is three amino acids bound to a copper ion, and the classic firming peptide in cosmetic chemistry. It is blue in solution, which is often why a serum carrying it is tinted, and it is used for the look of firmness and fine lines.
Arginine amino acid: Arginine is an amino acid that does two jobs here: it holds water in the outer layer of skin, and it neutralises acidic gelling agents, which is why it often stands in for a synthetic pH adjuster.
Sodium Chloride thickener: Sodium Chloride is salt. In a cleanser it thickens the liquid; in a mask or essence it balances the mineral content of the water phase. It has no active role.
Sodium Phosphate pH adjuster: Sodium Phosphate is a buffer salt. It holds a formula at a steady pH so its actives stay in the form they work in.
Potassium Phosphate pH adjuster: Potassium Phosphate is a buffer salt used to hold a formula at the pH its actives need.
1,2-Hexanediol humectant: 1,2-Hexanediol is a glycol used for two reasons: it holds water like glycerin, and it makes a formula harder for microbes to live in, so less traditional preservative is needed. Korean formulas use it heavily for that second reason.
Butylene Glycol humectant: Butylene Glycol is a small glycol that does two jobs at once: it holds water in the top layer of skin and it dissolves plant extracts and actives that plain water cannot. It also thins a formula, which is why watery Korean essences lean on it.
Ethylhexylglycerin preservative booster: Ethylhexylglycerin softens skin and boosts a preservative system, which is why it is nearly always sitting beside phenoxyethanol or 1,2-hexanediol. It also cuts down the odour bacteria produce, so it turns up in deodorising products.
Disodium EDTA chelator: EDTA is a chelator: it locks up trace metal ions from water and packaging that would otherwise turn a formula cloudy, off-colour or rancid. It does nothing to skin and appears at a fraction of a percent.
Phenoxyethanol preservative: Phenoxyethanol is the most widely used cosmetic preservative outside the paraben family. It keeps a water-containing formula from growing bacteria and mould, and is capped at one percent in most markets, so it always sits low on a list.
Fragrance fragrance: Fragrance, or Parfum, is a single declaration standing for a whole scent blend, which can be dozens of materials. Regulators allow it as a trade secret, so a list showing only this word does not say what the scent is made of. It is the most common trigger named by people with reactive skin.

Inside the formula

Ingredients declared

Last

Fragrance on the list

9Lysine11Magnesium Chloride16Histidine19Copper Tripeptide-1

9Lysine
11Magnesium Chloride
16Histidine
19Copper Tripeptide-1

Where each key active sits on the declared ingredient list, by entry number. Position is proportion: the further forward, the larger its share.

How to use

Use this toner AM and PM, as the step right after cleansing, before essence or serum. Pat or smooth it on rather than rubbing, and give it a moment to settle before layering the next step.

Worth knowing

Patch test on the inner arm before applying to the face, as with any new skincare formula.
Introduce a new active gradually into an existing routine rather than adding several new products at once.

Complete the routine

This itemHANYUL Pure Artemisia Watery Calming Toner 150ml$32.50
The treatment step of this routineHANYUL Ginkgo Leaf Pore Resurfacing Serum 40ml$52.50
An as-needed step, in place of the prep layerHANYUL Pure Aretemisia Watwery Calming Wrapping Mask Sheet 10P$32.50

Total for 3 items$117.50

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HANYUL, Korean-market original

The Original Korean Formula toner from HANYUL, 150ml formulated with Copper Tripeptide-1 and Lysine, shipped from California or direct from Korea.

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Korean-market stock with the original barcode and batch code intact, exactly as it left Korea.

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The Korean-market barcode, unaltered from the retail package.
The manufacturer’s batch code, exactly as the maker printed it.

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What professionals say

What skin-care professionals say about skin care, quoted from the medical sources linked beside each.

Peptides can be anti-inflammatory, and chronic inflammation damages the tissue in your skin.
Wilma Bergfeld, MDDermatologist, Cleveland Clinic
Pretty much every step of a Korean skin care routine is going to have some component of hydration.
Alok Vij, MDDermatologist, Cleveland Clinic