LEADERS PDRN 0.5% Essence Pad

What is this product?

LEADERS PDRN 0.5% Essence Pad is a Korean treatment pad, 135ml holding 70 pads, whose notified ingredient table prints 소듐디엔에이(5,000 ppm) at position seven, confirming the 0.5 percent in its name. Seventeen ingredients, no fragrance, no essential oil, no alcohol and no lipid phase at all. Registered in Korea as a dual-function cosmetic for brightening and wrinkle improvement, resting on 나이아신아마이드 at position five and 아데노신 at fifteen. Usable as a wipe or as a three to five minute local mask. One caution matters for anyone reading English sources: the brand's United States storefront publishes a different ingredient list for this product name, naming hyaluronic acid and peptides that the Korean notified list does not contain, so American product copy describes a different formulation.

What makes it different?

The disclosed concentration is printed in the ingredient table rather than only asserted in the name, and the capacity matches across five independent surfaces. The more distinctive fact is an edition divergence: the brand's Korean and American surfaces publish materially different ingredient lists under the same product name, which makes the American claims for hyaluronic acid and peptides false of the Korean product.

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.

• Water
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• Butylene Glycol
• Niacinamide
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Sodium DNA
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Allantoin
• Betaine
• Panthenol
• Xanthan Gum
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Adenosine
• Disodium EDTA
• Sorbitan Isostearate

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 15 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 4 of them hold up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

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

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

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• LEADERS PDRN+ 1% Deep Glow Toner with Spilanthox 3%Another product in the same category
• Anua PDRN 100 Hyaluronic Acid Glow PadAnother product in the same category