numbuzin Tingle-Pore Softening Sheet Mask

What is this product?

A 27 g single-sheet mask from the Korean brand numbuzin, sold in packs of five, filed on its statutory notice as a brightening and wrinkle-care functional cosmetic with niacinamide 7th and adenosine 38th on a 42 item list. Two ferment materials lead after water, bifida ferment lysate and galactomyces ferment filtrate. The brand's tingle-pore complex is a set of botanicals: peppermint, witch hazel, green tea and chamomile extracts plus six essential oils. The list also carries ethanol and the declared allergens limonene, linalool and citral, with no fragrance entry. The brand cites one pore test, 22 women after a single sheet, and two skin irritation tests, and describes stinging during use as normal. Best for oily skin with visible pores; sensitive skin should patch test.

What makes it different?

A sheet mask named for its tingle: a peppermint, essential-oil and ethanol set that the brand describes as stinging by design, on top of a brightening and wrinkle-care functional filing. It also cites a single-sheet pore test with lab, dates, sample and four endpoint figures.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Bifida Ferment Lysate
• Galactomyces Ferment Filtrate
• Methyl Gluceth-20
• Glycereth-26
• Glycerin
• Niacinamide
• PEG-90
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Leaf Extract
• Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Extract
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract
• Cymbopogon Citratus Leaf Oil
• 솔잣나무가지/잎오일
• Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil
• Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil
• Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Oil
• Cedrus Atlantica Bark Oil
• 알테로모나스발효추출물
• 염소유추출물
• 실크추출물
• Squalane
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Panthenol
• Butylene Glycol
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Polyglyceryl-3 Distearate
• Glyceryl Stearate Citrate
• Glyceryl Stearate SE
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Octyldodeceth-16
• Xanthan Gum
• Carbomer
• Tromethamine
• Alcohol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Adenosine
• Disodium EDTA
• Limonene
• Linalool
• Citral

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: 레몬그라스잎오일, 솔잣나무가지/잎오일, 오렌지껍질오일, 라벤더오일, 로즈마리잎오일, 아틀라스시다나무껍질오일, 폴리글리세릴-3메틸글루코오스다이스테아레이트, 폴리글리세릴-3다이스테아레이트, 글리세릴스테아레이트시트레이트, 글리세릴스테아레이트에스이

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 17 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 4 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.

How we read these lines