LBB Intensive Care In Serum

What is this product?

LBB's Intensive Care In Serum leads with tangerine water rather than plain water, which is unusual, and carries niacinamide seventh, adenosine eighteenth and ectoin near the end of its 39 ingredients. The lifting language on the shelf badge is the part to discount: adenosine and acetyl hexapeptide-8 work on wrinkle depth over weeks, not on tightening, and the peptide sits dead last on the label. Lavender, citron peel, grapefruit peel and calamansi oils are all on it.

What makes it different?

Five hydrolyzed plant proteins in a row, corn, soy, extensin, rice and potato, at positions 29 through 33, is a combination almost nothing else on the shelf runs. LBB builds its firmness copy directly on them: the brand page calls out 저분자 식물성 단백질 as what makes skin 탄력 있고 촉촉한. The mechanism is a protein film that dries down taut and washes off, which is a real sensation rather than a change in dermal elasticity, so the honest reading is that the brand names the right ingredient for the wrong depth. Ubiquinone and ectoin sit alongside them as antioxidant and osmolyte. This is not an oil-free formula: caprylic/capric triglyceride, sunflower seed oil, sorbitan oleate and four fragrant botanical oils are on the list. It dispenses by pump, and LBB publishes no pH and no concentration for any ingredient.

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

• Citrus Tangerina (Tangerine) Fruit Water
• Water
• Glycerin
• Glycereth-26
• Propanediol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Niacinamide
• Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate
• Glyceryl Caprylate
• Arginine
• Carbomer
• Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Panthenol
• Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer
• Polyisobutene
• Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Adenosine
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Citrus Medica Vulgaris Peel Oil
• Disodium EDTA
• Citrus Paradisi (Grapefruit) Peel Oil
• Citrus Nobilis (Mandarin Orange) Oil
• Sorbitan Oleate
• Tocopherol
• Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside
• Ubiquinone
• Butylene Glycol
• Hydrolyzed Corn Protein
• Hydrolyzed Soy Protein
• Hydrolyzed Extensin
• Hydrolyzed Rice Protein
• Hydrolyzed Potato Protein
• Lecithin
• Ceramide NP
• Ectoin
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Acetyl Hexapeptide-8

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: Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Citrus Medica Peel Oil, Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Peel Oil, Citrus Microcarpa Oil, Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate, Glyceryl Caprylate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Sorbitan Oleate, Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 3 lines 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.

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

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• Essence, serum, ampoule: is there any difference?We compared 106 Korean products across the three names. The medians sit within seven ingredients of each other, and ampoules disclose least often, not most.