What is Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner?

A lightweight toning essence formulated with 77% heartleaf extract, hyaluronic acid, panthenol and betaine, designed to calm visible redness and support skin barrier hydration without exfoliating.

Is Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner worth it?

Mostly yes. 9 of the 11 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 82%.

What is Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner's Guru Score?

Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner holds a Guru Score of 82%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 11 independent expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.

Who is Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner best for?

Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner is generally suited to sensitive skin and acne-prone skin.

Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner: a Guru Score of 82%

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Dr. Aleksandra Brown

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"My recommendation in this category is Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner. This toner is formulated with high concentration of heartleaf extract and is designed to calm that visible redness rather than exfoliate the skin. It has a really lightweight, watery texture that absorbs really quickly and layers easily without feeling heavy. It's suitable for sensitive, acne prone, reactive skin and can be used daily even alongside retinoids. The key ingredients are heartleaf and hyaluronic acid."

Top Pick: soothing toner

Dr. Jenny Liu

318k subs

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"It's a great one and it's a simple product. It may just look like water because the packaging is very clear, almost looks like you're putting on water, but it's really lightweight. It absorbs really nicely. It's very elegant, but at the same time, it's amazing how this clear bottle of water, if you will, really helps to rebalance your skin after cleansing. It helps to reduce irritation and the fact that it's really suitable for all skin types, sensitive and acne prone skin. Ingredient wise it contains 77% heartleaf which is a really popular K beauty ingredient that helps to calm and soothe redness inflammation while at the same time supporting your skin barrier. Panthenol and betaine which are gentle hydrating ingredients that really helps to keep the skin barrier moisturized and hydrated without adding heaviness or irritation. You can use regularly if you're super sensitive skin or use it if you have become sensitized because you just overdid it with retinoids or exfoliants. It's a product that works well for those who are sensitive and acne prone, and also works well with other products in your routine without causing that irritation."

Dr. Sam Ellis

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"This is such a wonderful calming toner. If you have redness, you're easily irritated, this is the toner I would pick for sure. It feels like water. So, it's incredibly lightweight. But that heartleaf in there is a plant extract that has a ton of flavonoids in it. So, that's going to be soothing. That's antioxidant rich. It's really there to just calm the skin down and allow it to tolerate things that you put on top of it."

Top Pick: calming toner

Dr. Vanita Rattan

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"This is a Dr V approved product"

Nipun Kapur

401k subs

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"This toner is a rescue toner. If you do have that problem, redness, rosacea-prone skin, general sensitivity, broken skin barrier, any of those kind of things, you're going to love this toner."

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"This toner is a rescue toner. If you do have that problem, redness, rosacea-prone skin, general sensitivity, broken skin barrier, any of those kind of things, you're going to love this toner."

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Hyram

4.35M subs

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"It's supposed to soothe while simultaneously hydrate the skin. It's very lightweight on the skin, it doesn't feel tacky or too sticky. Well, I guess there's a little bit, but not overly. It's very lightweight, so that's good because I am not a heavy toner person ever, but it does feel nice."

James Welsh

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"I shared this for a soothing toner and I found this actually stung a lot and a lot of people agreed with me and had the same issue. I cannot stand the heartleaf 77% toner, it's a soothing toner that's stung my face like crazy, it's also too watery when I use it, I lose half the product down my arms. For a product for irritated skin it shouldn't irritate my irritated skin."

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"It sounds like a nice toner. What I find bizarre, though, is when I first started using this, it stung. My skin barrier was a little bit irritated, so I put it to the side and gave it another go when my skin barrier was in a better position. But after about the first week, when my skin was getting a lot better, I started using this again, still stung. Two weeks later, stung. When my skin barrier is fully healed and I'm back to using actives, this stings. This stings my skin, and it shouldn't. The whole point is that it's soothing. It's also too watery that you put it in the palm of your hands and it just goes all down your arms, or on a cotton pad the cotton pad just soaks it up. I've not had a nice time using this product at all."

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Kelly Driscoll

90k subs

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"I like this toner a lot. Is it the most hydrating one out there? No it's not, but I think it's a really nice solid toner and I understand why it's so popular and why it's still ranking very high at Olive Young, because it's something that I can see working for a majority of people. It's just a very simple toner, very simple ingredients, very simple texture, and I can see it working for a variety of skin types. It's something that has gained a lot of popularity over the last year, I think it's going to continue to be popular, and it's just a really easy to use type of product."

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"This is one of my favorite toners to recommend because the success rate with this I think is going to be very high for a majority of folks. Heart leaf is one of my favorite ingredients not only for a soothing calming effect on the skin, it's a great anti-inflammation ingredient, it is an antibacterial ingredient as well, and that's what makes it so good for helping to gently clarify the skin. It's really good if you are congestion prone or acne prone. We've also got really great humectants in here, glycerin and Bane, and panthenol, which is a juicy watery plumping type of ingredient that supports the barrier layer rather than those really emollient creamy rich and nourishing types of ingredients. It's a lighter, more hydrating approach to barrier care. It comes together in a really nice watery thin lightweight type of texture."

No BS Beauty

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"The Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner, a lot of people really love this one and to me it felt like kind of using like water. I didn't notice any soothing benefits from it. It didn't irritate my skin but I've tried other toners that have really helped with redness and things like that and this one just didn't do it. I'll finish it, but I certainly wouldn't repurchase it."

All 9 takes from No BS Beauty

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"I didn't love it, I didn't hate it, I didn't really think much of it. But a lot of people absolutely love it so nothing wrong with that. I will say I appreciate this toner a little bit more using that cleanser because that cleanser was harsh. It's not as harsh as other things but it pretty much did a good job removing everything."

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"I didn't love it, I didn't hate it, but I'm trying to finish it up now. It's so dry. I don't know, maybe some people have good luck with it or maybe you could probably spend an hour sitting there flooding your skin, but if you're going to spend an hour on your skin I don't know, I could think of other things to do."

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"I finished up the Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner. This toner was nice. There wasn't anything wrong with it. It doesn't have any scent to it, it's affordable, it's got some nice soothing ingredients in it which is nice, but it just didn't blow me away the way other toners have. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, it just wasn't like a game changer for me. However, it's a total game changer for a lot of other people, so don't necessarily take my experience to be what yours will be. My experience with it was it left a little bit to be desired, but it's pretty affordable so that's always nice."

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"I used it once and then I put it back in the box and I put it back on the shelf for a while. I didn't find it to be overwhelmingly exciting. It's got heart leaf extract, also known as houttuynia cordata, and then panthenol, bane sugar cane, chamomile, supposed to be very gentle, but I found it to be kind of average."

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"The Anua Heartleaf Soothing Toner, I came out of the same experience with that as I did with this one. It was nice, it wasn't overly exciting, but for some people who are looking for a very simple ingredient list, nothing wrong with that. It just kind of the same opinion in a lot of ways."

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"I'm going to use a light toner, and the one I'm going to use is the Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner."

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"This brand looks pretty interesting with a lot of sensitive skin-friendly and gentle products using different types of plant extracts. The Heartleaf Toner looked exciting to me, especially with the price and the size of it. It's got panthenol, sugar cane, chamomile flour, grapefruit extract, centella, and heartleaf, which is a calming ingredient that I really haven't tried too much. That's one to keep an eye on."

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"I didn't really have an opinion on it, I just didn't notice any benefits. I didn't get irritated from it, I guess it's hydrating. I didn't notice it helped with redness, I didn't notice it helped with irritation, but definitely didn't cause redness or irritation. It has nice soothing ingredients, so that's nice. But I just, for as many five star reviews as this has, I was expecting to be amazed. Maybe my expectations were too high. In terms of performance, I wasn't impressed or bummed. The nice thing is for acne prone skin, there's no ingredients of note that would be problematic. It's going to be friendly for oily, dry, sensitive, and acne prone skin. It's simple, and maybe that's the good thing. Sometimes maybe just simple is good, so maybe that's what this is good for."

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Cassandra Bankson

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"Here's the thing about this heartleaf toner is there are other brands that have heartleaf specifically, Mixon is a really good one, but I have heard that this heartleaf toner continues to sell out. I've heard that it's great, there are over 5,300 sold, the price on this is really good. I am very interested in trying this especially because it has sugarcane and grape, both of those can actually hold on to moisture and pull that moisture deeper into the skin, and as we approach winter, that's what I'm looking for."

Robert Welsh

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"This toner has won the top-ranking toner and it won first place in the Olive Young Awards. Olive Young is a huge beauty retailer out there in South Korea. So for them to win number one place is a big deal. It's a huge deal. It's also perfect for sensitive and acne-prone skin. And that's because of the Heartleaf Extract and the Sugar Cane Extract. They act as natural AHAs, Alpha Hydroxy Acids, which gently, very gently, mildly almost, exfoliate the skin. So if your skin's really sensitive, mine's quite sensitive too, and you don't like using peels and exfoliators and things like that, you can use something as gentle as this daily and still get bright-looking skin that looks healthy and isn't sensitive in any way."