Luoncell PDRN Serum

What is this product?

Luoncell's PDRN Serum is the centella pick rather than the PDRN pick, and the label is what shows it. All four markers of the titrated centella complex are printed as separate entries, while the PDRN the product is named after appears as 소듐디엔에이 at 10ppm, forty fourth of 62 ingredients. Dongkook does deserve credit for printing that number when most brands print none, but its headline that this is ten times the supplier's recommended level never says what that level is, so there is nothing to check it against.

What makes it different?

Ten hyaluronate forms close the list, at positions 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58 and 59, from crosspolymer and acetylated variants to a dimethylsilanol pair, which is a wider spread than most serums at this size bother with. The base is unusually lean: a willow bark water first, then glycols, with no butter, plant seed oil or wax anywhere, so it sits closer to a watery essence than to an oil serum. Lean is not the same as lipid free, since caprylic/capric triglyceride at 7, a castor oil copolymer at 19 and a hydrogenated olefin at 22 all sit in the emollient range. Three peptides ride along, including copper tripeptide-1. Two things to weigh against it: 유자껍질오일 and the declared allergen 리모넨 close the list, so it is not a fragrance free option, and there is no exfoliating acid among its 62 ingredients, which makes it a layering serum rather than a resurfacing 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.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Water
• Water
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• Butylene Glycol
• Propanediol
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Niacinamide
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Hydroxyethyl Urea
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Caprylyl Glycol
• C12-13 Alketh-9
• Arginine
• Methylpropanediol
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract
• Eryngium Maritimum Callus Culture Filtrate
• Castor Oil/IPDI Copolymer
• Carbomer
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Hydrogenated Poly(C6-14 Olefin)
• Sodium Polyphosphate
• Aminobutyric Acid
• Panthenol
• Adenosine
• Coptis Japonica Root Extract
• HDI/Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer
• Madecassoside
• Coffea Arabica (Coffee) Seed Extract
• Hydrolyzed Extensin
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Water
• Asiaticoside
• Scutellaria Alpina Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract
• Steareth-30
• Glyceryl Glucoside
• Ulva Australis Extract
• Madecassic Acid
• Tromethamine
• Asiatic Acid
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Citric Acid
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Sodium DNA
• Maltodextrin
• Gardenia Florida Fruit Extract
• Pentylene Glycol
• Dimethylsilanol Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Copper Tripeptide-1
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Potassium Hyaluronate
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7
• Sodium Hyaluronate Dimethylsilanol
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1
• Citrus Junos Peel Oil
• Limonene

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: Citrus Junos Peel Oil, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, C12-13 Pareth-9, Steareth-30

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 3 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.

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