numbuzin No.3 Pore Smoothing Serum

What is this product?

Reach for this numbuzin No.3 serum if you want a fermentation led pore and texture serum whose first two entries are bifida ferment lysate and galactomyces ferment filtrate, ahead of water at 5, and skip it if you are pregnant or avoiding retinol alternatives, because bakuchiol sits at 15. Niacinamide at 6 and adenosine at 19 sit behind a functional cosmetic filing, with kojic acid at 23 adding a second brightening route. There is no fragrance, no essential oil, no drying alcohol and no exfoliating acid across its 34 entries. One thing to know: the ingredient list here was published by the brand itself rather than read off a retailer, and the drugstore record matches it byte for byte.

What makes it different?

Two ferment filtrates occupy positions 1 and 2, ahead of water at 5, which is an unusual ordering that puts the fermentation story in the vehicle rather than in a trailing active slot. The formula pairs bakuchiol at 15 with niacinamide at 6 and kojic acid at 23, so it runs a retinol alternative and two brightening routes in one 30ml serum. The emollient is squalane at 10 with no plant oil or butter anywhere, which is why the comedogenic screen returns empty while four ester emulsifiers cluster at 24 through 27.

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, except 4 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Bifida Ferment Lysate
• Galactomyces Ferment Filtrate
• Butylene Glycol
• Methyl Gluceth-20
• Water
• Niacinamide
• 피이지-90
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Glycerin
• Squalane
• 알테로모나스발효추출물
• 실크추출물
• 염소유추출물
• Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate
• Bakuchiol
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Panthenol
• Adenosine
• Glycereth-26
• Xanthan Gum
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Kojic Acid
• Polyglyceryl-3 Distearate
• Glyceryl Stearate SE
• Glyceryl Stearate Citrate
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Carbomer
• Tromethamine
• Allantoin
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Tropolone
• Disodium EDTA

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: 폴리글리세릴-3다이스테아레이트, 글리세릴스테아레이트에스이, 글리세릴스테아레이트시트레이트, 폴리글리세릴-3메틸글루코오스다이스테아레이트, 바쿠치올

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 2 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds 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