LEADERS PDRN+ 1% Deep Glow Toner with Spilanthox 3%

What is this product?

Worth considering for one concrete reason, and worth caution for two others. The brand prints an actual number for its headline active: 소듐디엔에이 appears in the official ingredient list at 10,000ppm, which is the 1 percent in the product name, and that kind of disclosure is uncommon in a toner. The cautions are real too. The firmness, elasticity and texture claims come with no test data, no subject count and no testing institution, and the product had no customer reviews yet, so nothing independent confirms them. Reactive skin should also weigh 13 extract entries, one of which is propolis, a bee derived material that is a known contact allergen. The formula otherwise reads as a humectant led hydration step: niacinamide third, ten hyaluronate and hyaluronic acid entries, adenosine and three peptides further down, with no fragrance ingredient and no drying alcohol. It carries no occlusive, so it needs a cream over it. Treat it as a well disclosed hydration step rather than a proven firming one.

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
• Butylene Glycol
• Niacinamide
• Diethoxyethyl Succinate
• Glycereth-26
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Betaine
• Sodium DNA
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Adenosine
• Acmella Oleracea Extract
• Magnolia Officinalis Bark Extract
• Tribulus Terrestris Fruit Extract
• Disodium EDTA
• Myrciaria Dubia Fruit Extract
• Dimethylsilanol Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Potassium Hyaluronate
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Sodium Hyaluronate Dimethylsilanol
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Diospyros Kaki Leaf Extract
• Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Fruit Extract
• Gluconolactone
• Glycerin
• Coffea Arabica (Coffee) Seed Extract
• Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Flower Extract
• Polygonum Cuspidatum Root Extract
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• Castanea Crenata (Chestnut) Shell Extract
• Zanthoxylum Piperitum Fruit Extract
• Ascorbic Acid
• Propolis Extract
• Glutathione
• Acetyl Hexapeptide-8
• Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4
• Copper Tripeptide-1

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 8 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.

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?

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Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• Should you buy a PDRN cream or a PDRN serum?The format is not the variable that decides this. Three Korean PDRN products read end to end, and the thousand fold gap between what their labels disclose.
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