What is The Ultimate S Enriched Cleansing Foam 150g?

It is a daily foaming cleanser from Sulwhasoo, made for dry skin that wants a richer finish, and anyone whose usual moisturiser stops feeling like enough in winter. It goes first, as your cleansing step, before any leave-on product. The result you can judge yourself is whether your skin feels soft and cushioned instead of tight by the evening.

Where does The Ultimate S Enriched Cleansing Foam 150g go in my routine?

It goes first, as your cleansing step, before any leave-on product. In practice: Lather a small amount in wet hands, massage over a wet face for about thirty seconds and rinse with lukewarm water. Applying it out of that order is the usual reason a step seems to do nothing.

Is The Ultimate S Enriched Cleansing Foam 150g right for my skin type?

It is aimed at dry skin that wants a richer finish, and anyone whose usual moisturiser stops feeling like enough in winter. The skin types we would put first are dry skin, very dry skin and normal skin. Richness is a matter of season and area rather than skin type, so many people use a step like this in winter and something lighter in summer.

Is it too stripping to use morning and night?

For most skin, no, and the test is how your face feels sixty seconds after rinsing rather than immediately. Comfortable is right, squeaky and tight is too much. If mornings leave you tight, rinse with water only when you wake and keep this for the evening.

Is this The Ultimate S Enriched Cleansing Foam 150g the authentic Korean-market formula?

Yes. We stock the Sulwhasoo Korean-market formula rather than a version reformulated for US shelves. The tube you open is the 150g one sold on Korean shelves, with Korean-primary packaging and an intact barcode you can check yourself.

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The Ultimate S Enriched Cleansing Foam 150g

Name: Sulwhasoo The Ultimate S Enriched Cleansing Foam 150g
Brand: Sulwhasoo
SKU: 11813954254
Price: 120.0 USD
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Sulwhasoo The Ultimate S Enriched Cleansing Foam 150g is a daily foaming cleanser for dry skin that wants a richer finish, used as your cleansing step.

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150 g

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Suited to: Dry skinVery dry skinNormal skin

Helps with: Rich everyday moistureA softer feeling surfaceComfort in cold dry air

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How it works

This lathers with water and rinses away, which puts it in a different class from everything else in a routine. Worked into a lather in wet hands, it lifts the day's oil and grime off the surface and takes it away with the rinse water. Nourishing in cosmetic terms means a heavier finish and a softer feel, and that comes from texture rather than from any one ingredient. That is the difference from a cleansing oil, which dissolves makeup and sunscreen and is used before a foam rather than instead of it. The result you can judge yourself is whether your skin feels soft and cushioned instead of tight by the evening.

Key benefits

What it is: The Ultimate S Enriched Cleansing Foam 150g from Sulwhasoo, a Korean-market cleanser.
On the ingredient list: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Niacinamide, Tocopherol, Panax Ginseng Berry Extract, confirmed on this product's own manufacturer ingredient list rather than assumed from the category.
Fits into the routine: belongs to the first step of a routine, removing makeup, sunscreen and the day's buildup before the rest of a routine.
Sulwhasoo is a heritage Korean luxury house built around fermented Korean red ginseng and hanbang (traditional herbal) formulation.
Original Korean Formula: the same version sold on shelves in Korea, not a US-shelf reformulation.

Inside the formula

Ingredients declared

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Fragrance on the list

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Water/Aqua/Eau 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.
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride is the light fraction of coconut oil, with the heavy parts removed. It is the workhorse emollient of modern formulas: it softens skin, dissolves oil-soluble actives and absorbs without the greasy weight of a whole plant oil.
Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate surfactant: Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate is a coconut-derived surfactant that gives a dense, creamy foam while staying mild. It is the usual choice in syndet cleansing bars.
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.
Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil emollient: Olive Fruit Oil is high in oleic acid and plant sterols. It is a rich emollient that suits dry skin and is heavy enough that blemish-prone skin often does not get on with it.
Lauryl Hydroxysultaine surfactant: Lauryl Hydroxysultaine is a mild secondary surfactant that keeps foaming even in hard water and at low pH.
Lauric Acid fatty acid: Lauric Acid is the coconut fatty acid that gives soap-style cleansers their dense foam. It is not well suited to blemish-prone skin at high levels.
Glycol Distearate emollient: A wax-like ester that thickens a cleanser and gives it a pearly opacity. It also leaves a conditioned feel behind after rinsing.
C14-22 Alcohols fatty alcohol: C14-22 Alcohols is a declaration for a mixture of long-chain fatty alcohols. They thicken a cream and hold the emulsion together.
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 Methyl Cocoyl Taurate surfactant: Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate is a mild coconut-derived surfactant known for a rich, creamy lather that rinses without tightness.
Lauryl Glucoside surfactant: A sugar surfactant made from glucose and a fatty alcohol. Glucosides carry no charge, which is what makes them mild, and they give a soft low foam.

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Fragrance/Parfum 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.
Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate surfactant: Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate is a very mild coconut-derived surfactant used in cleansers for reactive skin and around the eyes.
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.
Trehalose humectant: Trehalose is a sugar that some desert plants use to survive drying out. In skincare it is a humectant that holds water in the outer layer and helps a formula feel comfortable rather than tight.
C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside emulsifier: C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside is a sugar-derived emulsifier used in mild, plant-based cream bases.
Polyquaternium-7 film former: Polyquaternium-7 is a positively charged polymer, so it clings to hair and skin, which carry a slight negative charge. It conditions and reduces static.
Benzyl Salicylate fragrance component: Benzyl Salicylate is a faint floral aromatic that also holds a fragrance on skin longer. It is one of the 26 fragrance components EU labelling requires to be named.
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.
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.
Ectoin humectant: Ectoin is a small molecule that microbes in salt flats and hot springs make to survive extreme conditions. In skincare it holds water tightly around itself, which is why it appears in formulas aimed at reactive, easily dehydrated skin.
Citronellol fragrance component: Citronellol is a rose-geranium aromatic and one of the 26 fragrance components EU labelling names individually.
Limonene fragrance component: Limonene is the citrus-peel aromatic. It appears here because EU labelling requires 26 fragrance components to be named individually rather than hidden inside "fragrance", and it is one of them.
Sodium Benzoate preservative: Sodium Benzoate is a mild preservative that works only in acidic formulas. It is usually paired with potassium sorbate, and the pair is the standard choice where a brand wants no phenoxyethanol.
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.
Aspartic Acid amino acid: Aspartic Acid is an amino acid used as a humectant and buffer, usually within a wider amino acid blend.
Glutamic Acid amino acid: Glutamic Acid is an amino acid used as a humectant and a mild pH adjuster. It is one of the components of skin's natural moisturising factor.
Niacinamide active: Niacinamide is vitamin B3, and it is the most studied active in Korean formulation. It is used at roughly 2 to 5 percent for the look of uneven tone and visible pores, and it is water soluble, stable and comfortable beside almost every other active, which is why it turns up in so many lists.
Bioflavonoids antioxidant: Bioflavonoids is a collective declaration for the flavonoid fraction of a plant extract, usually citrus. It names a class of plant antioxidants rather than one compound.
Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin solvent: Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin is a ring-shaped sugar that traps an active molecule inside itself, keeping it stable and releasing it slowly. It is a delivery shell rather than an active.
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.
Methoxy PEG-114/Polyepsilon Caprolactone emulsifier: A block polymer with a water-loving end and an oil-loving end. It stabilises an emulsion without a soap-type emulsifier.
Hydrolyzed Proanthocyanidin antioxidant: Proanthocyanidins, the tannin polyphenols of grape seed and pine bark, broken into smaller water soluble fragments. The smaller pieces dissolve more readily than the whole polymer.
Hydrolyzed Ginseng Saponins plant extract: The ginsenoside fraction of ginseng root broken into smaller pieces, usually with an enzyme acting on red ginseng. Smaller ginsenosides dissolve and spread more easily than the whole extract.
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.
Caprylyl Glycol preservative booster: Caprylyl Glycol is a glycol that conditions skin and, more importantly, strengthens a preservative system so less of the traditional preservative is needed. It appears in most modern formulas built without parabens.
Tocopherol antioxidant: Tocopherol is vitamin E. It is an oil-soluble antioxidant that protects the oils in a formula from going rancid and works on skin as an emollient, and it is regularly paired with vitamin C because each keeps the other going for longer.
Acetyl Heptapeptide-4 peptide: A seven-amino-acid peptide with an acetyl group added for stability. It is used as a conditioning peptide for the look of firmness.
Rehmannia Glutinosa Root Extract plant extract: Chinese foxglove root, one of the standing herbal roots of Korean medicine. Its extract carries iridoid glycosides and sugars and is used as a conditioning extract.
Paeonia Lactiflora Root Extract plant extract: Chinese peony root, one of the oldest ingredients in East Asian herbal practice. Its extract carries paeoniflorin and is used for the look of reddened, uneven skin.
Polygonatum Odoratum Rhizome Extract plant extract: Solomon's seal rhizome extract, the dungulle brewed as tea in Korea. It carries mucilage and sugars, so it hydrates and leaves a soft feel.
Nelumbo Nucifera Flower Extract plant extract: Lotus flower extract, from the same sacred lotus as the leaf. It carries flavonoids and sugars and is used as a conditioning, hydrating extract.
Panax Ginseng Berry Extract plant extract: Extract of the ginseng fruit rather than the root. The berry carries a different balance of ginsenosides and is harvested for only a short window each year.
Lilium Tigrinum Bulb Extract plant extract: Tiger lily bulb extract. The bulb is starchy and mucilaginous, so the extract hydrates and leaves a soft feel.
Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 peptide: Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 is a six-amino-acid peptide used for the look of expression lines, particularly around the eyes. It is the peptide sold under the name Argireline and is water soluble and stable.
Sodium Hydroxide pH adjuster: Sodium Hydroxide is a strong base used in traces to bring an acidic formula up to skin-friendly pH. None of it remains as itself once the formula is neutralised.
Acetyl Octapeptide-3 peptide: Acetyl Octapeptide-3 is an eight-amino-acid peptide used for the look of expression lines. It is usually paired with acetyl hexapeptide-8 rather than used alone.

How to use

Wet the face with lukewarm water, since a lather on dry skin drags rather than glides.
Work a small amount into a lather in your palms first, then massage it over the face for about thirty seconds.
Rinse thoroughly, especially along the jaw and hairline where cleanser gets left behind.
Do not use hot water or scrub at the skin, and do not wait for the face to dry before your next step.

Worth knowing

Patch test on a small area first if your skin reacts easily to new products.
Use less than you think on oily or congestion prone areas, since a rich texture can feel heavy there.

Complete the routine

This itemSulwhasoo The Ultimate S Enriched Cleansing Foam 150g$120.00
Cleanse first, so the next step meets bare skinSulwhasoo Signature Ginseng Facial Soap 120g X 2ea$82.50
The last step of the morning, over everything elseSulwhasoo MEN UV Defense Protector 50ml SPF50+ PA++++$52.50

Total for 3 items$255.00

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