numbuzin No.1 Pantothenic B5 Active Soothing Cream

What is this product?

Pick this 80ml cream for light, fragrance-free daily soothing rather than rich occlusion: numbuzin's No.1 line cream backs its soothing name with panthenol plus pantothenic acid in two forms, two centella entries and heartleaf across its 59 ingredients, with no fragrance, essential oil or drying alcohol anywhere on the list. It will not seal very dry skin by itself, and its brightening side (niacinamide fourth on the list, alpha-arbutin 29th) comes with no disclosed amounts and no published test from numbuzin.

What makes it different?

The line-name active is genuinely doubled: panthenol sits at position 36 and pantothenic acid at 53, a two-form pairing that matches the No.1 pantothenic-acid branding, though both sit in the list's back half with no amounts given. numbuzin itself publishes no efficacy figures or tests for this cream on its product page, so the strongest performance wording around it comes from third-party listings, not the brand. Within the same line it is the cream of a cream-and-serum pair (the 50ml serum sibling shares the No.1 branding), suited to someone who wants the soothing line in a moisturizer step. Sensitive skin gets a fragrance-free formula but also a load of more than twenty botanical extracts, worth a patch test for extract-reactive skin.

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
• Niacinamide
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• Dicaprylyl Carbonate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Pentylene Glycol
• Vinyl Dimethicone
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Chlorella Vulgaris Extract
• Sophora Angustifolia Root Extract
• Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract
• Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract
• Coccinia Indica Fruit Extract
• Ocimum Sanctum Leaf Extract
• Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract
• Aloe Barbadensis Flower Extract
• Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract
• Corallina Officinalis Extract
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• Centella Asiatica Leaf Extract
• Cladosiphon Okamuranus Extract
• Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract
• Houttuynia Cordata Extract
• Coffea Arabica (Coffee) Seed Extract
• Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Leaf Extract
• Pinus Densiflora Leaf Extract
• Alpha-Arbutin
• Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil
• Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Oil
• Serenoa Serrulata Fruit Extract
• Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract
• Caprylyl Methicone
• Erythritol
• Panthenol
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Dimethiconol
• Polymethylsilsesquioxane
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Glucose
• Tromethamine
• Silica
• Fructooligosaccharides
• Fructose
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Sodium Phytate
• Glyceryl Acrylate/Acrylic Acid Copolymer
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Tocopherol
• Decyl Glucoside
• Pantothenic Acid
• Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate
• Polyglyceryl-6 Caprylate
• Zinc PCA
• Methyl Diisopropyl Propionamide
• Beta-Sitosterol
• 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: Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Oil, Hydrogenated Lecithin

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 5 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 3 of them look likely, though none are proven outright.

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.

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