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VT Cosmetics PDRN Essence 100

Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read

Read on 2026-09-06

What is this product?

VT's PDRN Essence 100 is a barrier-repair essence pretending to be a PDRN product: the sodium DNA it is named for is printed dead last, 31st of 31 ingredients at 0.5ppm, while the formula is actually built on five ceramides (NP, NS, AS, EOP, AP), squalane and two plant oils. That makes it a good pick for dry or damaged skin and a poor one for anyone acne-prone, because isopropyl myristate, one of the highest-scoring materials in the comedogenicity literature, sits at position 2. VT publishes no pH, no volume and no test of its own for it, and no review data for it was recovered at all.

What makes it different?

Five separate ceramides on one label is rare, and here they arrive with squalane, sunflower and baobab oils rather than alone, which makes this closer to a light cream than to a serum. Tocopherol sitting high at position 12 reads as deliberate protection for those two oils rather than as a marketing vitamin. The disclosed 0.5ppm on the headline ingredient is a real piece of honesty and also a settled answer: that is 0.00005 percent. The niacinamide at 7th and adenosine at 17th get no mention on the front of the product at all.

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

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: 아이소프로필미리스테이트, 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이글리세라이드, 세틸에틸헥사노에이트, 해바라기씨오일, 바오밥나무씨오일, 폴리글리세릴-3다이아이소스테아레이트, 하이드로제네이티드레시틴

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked the one line this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

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  • [Annie PICK] PDRN Essence 100
    Korean original

    [애니 PICK] 피디알엔 에센스 100

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

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