Abib Jericho Rose Bifida Serum Firming Drop

What is this product?

A lipid rich firming serum for skin that tolerates oils well. Six plant oils and a shea butter fill seven of the eight slots from position nine to sixteen of its 56 ingredients, interrupted only by a ferment at eleven, which is what gives it a cushioned feel and what sits behind its 8.17 percent barrier and 14.74 percent immediate hydration readings. That same lipid block is the densest such run this record found in a serum at this level, which makes it a poor fit for breakout prone or fungal acne prone skin. The brand publishes unusually specific levels, 2,072 ppm jericho rose extract and 28.5 ppm bifida ferment filtrate, alongside unusually modest results, 2.36 percent elasticity and 6.18 percent pore improvement over four weeks on 20 people. The much larger numbers on the same page carry a different protocol: 16 percent pore elasticity and 13.17 percent elasticity come from a separate panel using this serum together with the line's cream, not from the serum alone. Bakuchiol sits at forty three, which is the entry that matters in pregnancy. No consumer review population was recovered for this product, and pH is not disclosed.

What makes it different?

Two things make it worth naming, and one of them is unusual. The first is disclosure: this brand prints parts per million for three of its hero materials, 2,072 ppm for the jericho rose extract and 28.5 ppm and 13 ppm for the two bifida ferments, and then publishes four week results of 6.18 percent and 2.36 percent rather than rounding them into something louder. Printing a 0.87 percent two week elasticity figure is a choice almost nobody makes. The second is the lipid architecture. Macadamia, meadowfoam, queensland nut, olive, jojoba and grapeseed oils plus shea butter take seven of the eight slots from nine through sixteen, with a ferment at eleven the only entry between them, which puts a serum's worth of occlusive lipid ahead of most of its actives, and that is simultaneously the reason for the barrier reading and the reason breakout prone skin should look elsewhere. Bakuchiol at forty three, adenosine at thirty three and palmitoyl tripeptide-5 at fifty three are the firming actives, all undisclosed in level and two of the three in the final quarter of the list.

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Each name links to what we know about that ingredient.

This brand publishes its ingredient list in Korean only. Names below are the matching INCI names from the Korean Cosmetic Association ingredient dictionary.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Niacinamide
• Methylpropanediol
• Anastatica Hierochuntica Extract
• Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil
• Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
• Macadamia Integrifolia Seed Oil
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Extract
• Bifida Ferment Filtrate
• Bifida Ferment Lysate
• Soluble Collagen
• Panthenol
• Pentylene Glycol
• Sodium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Squalane
• Hydrogenated Polydecene
• Sucrose Palmitate
• Triisostearin
• Tromethamine
• Propanediol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Adenosine
• Sodium Dilauramidoglutamide Lysine
• Glucosylrutin
• Ceramide NP
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Dextrin
• Beta-Glucan
• Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate
• Tocopherol
• Bakuchiol
• Trehalose
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Phytosphingosine
• Octyldodecanol
• Phosphatidylcholine
• Asiaticoside
• Asiatic Acid
• Glycolipids
• Madecassic Acid
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5
• Sorbitol
• Carbomer
• Xanthan Gum

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

We could not place these in the list above: 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이글리세라이드, 마카다미아씨오일, 메도우폼씨오일, 시어버터, 퀸즈랜드넛오일, 올리브오일, 포도씨오일, 하이드로제네이티드레시틴, 수크로오스팔미테이트, 트라이아이소스테아린, 폴리글리세릴-10라우레이트, 폴리글리세릴-3메틸글루코오스다이스테아레이트, 바쿠치올

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 18 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 of them hold up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

Each line is quoted as the brand published it, and each one was read on its own against the ingredient list and the documents the brand publishes.

How we read these lines