numbuzin
numbuzin No.5+ Vitamin Concentrated Serum Duo Set 60ml
For the dull week your face gives away.
Lingonberry extract is the first ingredient — water is sixth — with four vitamin C forms across the two bottles.
Silky, faintly tacky, brightening over weeks.
What this serum does
A 60 ml duo set led by lingonberry extract, carrying Niacinamide, Tranexamic Acid, Alpha-Arbutin and four vitamin C derivatives with Ceramide NP, formulated for the look of uneven tone and pigmentation.
An extract at position one
Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea Fruit Extract above water is unusual and it is not decoration — it means the aqueous base of this serum is largely berry extract rather than plain water. Niacinamide sits third and Tranexamic Acid fifth, both above the water line. For a tone-focused serum, that ordering is the substantive part.
Key ingredients
Ingredient · What it is, and what it is used for
- Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea Fruit Extract
- Extract of lingonberry fruit.
- Niacinamide
- Vitamin B3. Studied for evening out the look of tone, for the look of pores, and for breakout-prone skin — which is why it turns up in so much of this catalogue.
- Tranexamic Acid
- Lysine derivative.
- Alpha-Arbutin
- Glucoside of hydroquinone.
- 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid
- Stable vitamin C derivative. Slows oxidation, in the formula and on skin.
- Ascorbyl Glucoside
- Glucoside of ascorbic acid. Slows oxidation, in the formula and on skin.
- Glutathione
- Tripeptide of glutamate, cysteine and glycine. An antioxidant the body makes for itself; in a jar it is protecting the rest of the formula as much as your skin.
- Bisabolol
- Sesquiterpene alcohol from chamomile. Used to calm irritation.
- Ceramide NP
- Ceramide 3. A material skin already contains, so it reads as its own.
- Bifida Ferment Lysate
- Lysate of Bifidobacterium culture.
- Ubiquinone
- Coenzyme Q10. Slows oxidation, in the formula and on skin.
- Tremella Fuciformis Extract
- Extract of snow fungus. Pulls water into the surface and holds it there.
How the formula works together
Four materials work on the look of tone by different routes — Niacinamide, Tranexamic Acid, Alpha-Arbutin and the vitamin C set. Stacking them is the whole design; each has its own body of study, and none of them is the same mechanism as another.
Around them sit the buffers: Bisabolol, Allantoin, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate and Ceramide NP. Tone-focused actives are the group most likely to irritate, and that is what the calming half is doing here.
Shea Butter and two light esters give the texture body. Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin stabilises the ascorbic acid. Forty-seven ingredients, no fragrance and no essential oil.
Who it is for
Labelled for uneven tone and pigmentation. Wear sunscreen — a tone serum without daily sun protection works against itself.
How to use it
- After toner, apply a few drops over the whole face.
- Use morning and night; the duo set is two bottles of the same serum.
- Sunscreen every morning, without exception, while using it.
Details
- Size
- 30 ml × 2
- Made in
- Korea
- Skin type
- All skin types
- Ingredients
- 47, published in full below
Full ingredient list
Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea Fruit Extract, Butylene Glycol, Niacinamide, Panthenol, Tranexamic Acid, Water, 1,2-Hexanediol, Neopentyl Glycol Dicaprate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Sorbitol, Bifida Ferment Lysate, Chondrus Crispus Extract, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Saccharum Officinarum Extract, Alpha-Arbutin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract, Ocimum Sanctum Leaf Extract, Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract, Curcuma Longa Root Extract, Corallina Officinalis Extract, Tremella Fuciformis Extract, Pentylene Glycol, Glycerin, 3-O-Ethyl Ascorbic Acid, Bisabolol, Tromethamine, Ethylhexylglycerin, Adenosine, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Allantoin, Glutathione, Ceramide NP, Beta-Glucan, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Tocopherol, Ascorbic Acid, Ascorbyl Glucoside, Tocopheryl Acetate, Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin, Ubiquinone, Thioctic Acid, Potassium Hydroxide, Behenyl Alcohol, Carbomer, Xanthan Gum, Disodium EDTA
In label order, unedited.
Ships from Korea.
