SAIMDANG Aice

Saimdang Alogel is a 120 ml clear water gel, and the front of the bottle tells you only half the story. The aloe is there — leaf extract in the middle of the list, leaf juice powder at the very end — but so is a set of ingredients that belongs to Korean herbal medicine rather than to a summer cooling gel: mulberry root, mulberry bark, propolis, skullcap root and tree peony root. One writer describes the brand's whole approach as everyday herbal medicine applied to basic skincare, which is a fair reading of this ingredient list.

Korean name: 사임당 알로젤
Size: 120ml