Beauty Tips
Expert insights on PDRN, PN, skin boosters, and advanced Korean skincare science.
Cold, Dark or Room Temperature: What Korean Licences Require of Vitamin, Glutathione and Placenta Injections
Every Korean drug licence says how the product should be kept, in a single line of the licence record. For...
Collagen in a Korean Skin Booster: Which Listings Put It in the Vial, and Which Only Say It Stimulates
Search a Korean skin booster listing for the word collagen and it will very likely be there. On 22 October...
Korean Skin Booster Brands: 36 Names, 62 Products, and Why the Name Is Not the Formula
A search for Korean skin booster brands usually returns a list of names. The names are the easy part. Across...
Behind the Licence Holder: The Plants That Make Korea's Glutathione, Vitamin and Placenta Injectables
A Korean drug licence names the company responsible for a product. It does not always name the company that makes...
Botulinum Peptide on a Skin Booster Label: What LusciTox, Hyalmass Aquatox and JUVEHEAL B Declare
Three listings in our skin booster range put the word botulinum in their ingredient line: LusciTox and Hyalmass Aquatox, both...
G′ or Viscosity? How 25 Korean HA Filler Listings Describe Firmness
Search for a filler's G prime and you will usually find a chart: one curve or bar per product, each...
The Nine-Digit Code Inside a Korean Medicine's Barcode
Korean medicine paperwork sometimes carries a nine-digit number that is not a licence number, not a lot number and not...
E.P.T.Q. vs NEURAMIS: Two Korean HA Filler Lines, Spec by Spec
E.P.T.Q. and NEURAMIS are both Korean cross-linked hyaluronic acid (HA) filler lines sold in several versions, both with 0.3% lidocaine...
A Buyer's Glossary of Korea's Drug and Device Registers
Korean drug and device records are written in a compact administrative vocabulary, and a handful of words carry most of...
SOSUM Filler: What It Is and How to Source It Authentically
The name on a SOSUM box is JSBIO's. The name on SOSUM's Korean licence is not. Korea's medical device register...
Korea's 2025 Production Figures for Toxins, Fillers and Cosmetics, and What They Measure
Three reports from Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, published between May and July 2026, put numbers on the...
MELSMON: What It Is and How to Source It Authentically
MELSMON is the oldest placenta extract injection on the Korean drug register, filed in May 2003. Twenty-three more have been...