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...
Question of the Week: Does It Arrive as a Powder or a Liquid?
This week's question came in on WhatsApp from a customer looking at one of our listings: "Does it come in...
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...
Question of the Week: Is There a Cheaper Alternative to Hyaron?
This week's question came from a reader looking for "a cheaper alternative to Hyaron, obviously sterile." We are not going...