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PDRN everywhere: what is "salmon DNA" skincare actually doing?
Walk into any Olive Young right now and you will see PDRN on serums, pads, sun creams and masks. The term comes from clinics, where PDRN injections are used — but a cream is not an injection. On a label you usually see i
0 3Topics That Keep Coming Up in Ingredient Meetings Lately
I’m curious about the ingredient trends people in the industry are seeing firsthand. I’ll start by listing the trends showing up in stores and online. PDRN·DNA ingredients: Expanding into sunscreens and pads Peptides: Mo
0 1Salmon PDRN, plant "PDRN": how much do you disclose about the source?
With PDRN now a hot skincare keyword, one question reportedly keeps coming up in supplier meetings: "Is this from salmon or from plants?" Common concerns in the field More sources than before: besides DNA from salmon mil
0 0Poll: which buzzy K-beauty ingredient are you most curious about?
Every few months a new ingredient takes over K-beauty feeds. Right now a handful keep coming up in hauls, reviews and beauty press: PDRN ("salmon DNA"): in serums and ampoules marketed for skin recovery Spicules: the pri
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Which trending ingredient do you want us to dig into next?
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0 0Planning next year's launches: which ingredient family is R&D watching most?
Put together what gets discussed at supplier meetings and trade shows and a few trends stand out. So for anyone planning next year's launches: which family are you betting on most? Families that come up often DNA and nuc
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0 0The exosome and PDRN skincare craze: where should expectations land?
New skincare launches can hardly skip exosomes or PDRN (salmon DNA) these days. Names that started in dermatology clinics have moved into jars, and interest has exploded. Why the hype Products often borrow the clinic ima
0 0What exactly is PDRN? What to know before you buy
PDRN keeps popping up in new K-beauty launches and in Japanese rankings, so plenty of people are curious. Here are the basics. What PDRN is Short for polydeoxyribonucleotide. It is a DNA-derived ingredient, and in cosmet
0 0Rejuran, honestly: "it hurts", "you need several", "results vary"
In late June 2024, a "Has anyone had Rejuran?" thread went up on Girls Channel, a large Japanese women's forum. The poster wanted to hear from people who had actually had it, and the thread passed 60 comments. What the r
0 1Six weeks before the wedding: should you skip a first-ever skin treatment?
On theqoo's beauty board, someone six weeks out from their wedding was thinking about getting Rejuran (an injectable made from salmon-derived DNA fragments, popular in Korea) about three weeks before the day. Searching t
0 1Gyeongui Line Forest Park, Yeonnam-dong: how to walk it and where to stop for coffee
Gyeongui Line Forest Park is what Seoul built after burying an old railway line underground: a roughly 6.3-kilometre green corridor running from Mapo-gu into Yongsan-gu. The Yeonnam-dong stretch near Hongdae is the most
0 0Olive Young opens a three-floor store in Myeongdong: Central Myeongdong Town
Another Olive Young in Myeongdong doesn't sound like news, but this one is on a different scale. Olive Young Central Myeongdong Town opened on 26 March 2026 with three floors and roughly 3,100 m², making it the chain's s
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