Amorepacific Wins Jang Yeong-sil Award for Ginseng-Derived Anti-Aging Essence

Sulwhasoo 'Jaumsaeng Essence' Continues Domestic and International Success

[Asia Economy Reporter Yujin Cho] Amorepacific's anti-aging essence applying ginsenoside derived from ginseng has been selected as the ‘IR52 Jang Young-sil Award’ product for the 49th week of 2020.

The IR52 Jang Young-sil Award was established in 1991 to honor the scientific spirit of Jang Young-sil, a representative scientist of King Sejong the Great’s era in the Joseon Dynasty. It aims to foster the development environment of science and technology in Korea and promote technological advancement. Every week, excellent new technology products developed by domestic companies and research institutes, as well as organizations with outstanding technological innovation achievements, are selected and awarded.

The anti-aging essence applying ginsenoside derived from ginseng by Amorepacific, which received the IR52 Jang Young-sil Award this time, is a wrinkle-improving functional essence that stabilizes highly effective skin improvement ingredients derived from ginseng seeds, leaves, and stems, in addition to the high-performance skin anti-aging ginsenoside derived from ginseng. It applied a new concept of self-assembling emulsion encapsulation technology through a paid crystallization control process for the first time in the cosmetics industry.

Cosmetics with thermodynamically unstable emulsion formulations must maintain formulation stability even under rapid temperature changes. There were difficulties in realizing self-assembling emulsion capsules that maintain the capsule form under rapid temperature changes while simultaneously providing the essence formulation’s inherent quick absorption and a flexible usage feeling that melts smoothly at skin temperature.

Amorepacific Technical Research Institute was able to establish optimal production conditions capable of forming uniform emulsion capsules through about four years of formulation pilot testing. The anti-aging essence formulation composed of this research was clinically tested on the skin, verifying its anti-aging efficacy by improving skin wrinkles and increasing skin elasticity and volume.

This technology was applied to Sulwhasoo, Amorepacific’s luxury brand, in the ‘Jaumsaeng Essence’ launched in August 2018. Sulwhasoo Jaumsaeng Essence is currently exported to 12 countries including the Americas, China, and Europe. The product’s excellent anti-aging efficacy and satisfaction with its usage have led to high purchase rates by customers, recording sales of approximately 35.7 billion KRW over two years since its launch, establishing it as a representative product of Sulwhasoo.

Park Young-ho, head of Amorepacific Technical Research Institute, said, "This award is very meaningful as it recognizes the research on ginseng materials, the core ingredient of Amorepacific anti-aging, and the efforts for new formulation development and stabilization with the Jang Young-sil Award."

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