PDRN, the salmon-based ingredient K-beauty fans love

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As a fan of Selling Sunset, I was surprised to see Bre Tiesi invite the cast to enjoy “salmon sperm” injections on the show – I’d never heard of the ingredient in my life.

But, unappealing as the Netflix show’s party might sound, there’s real science behind polydeoxyribonucleotide (PDRN).

Yes, the hype K-beauty staple is derived from salmon DNA fragments (but hey, since I became a snail mucin convert back in 2019, I can’t act too far above it).

Odd as it may appear at first, some papers say the viral ingredient has tissue-healing and repairing qualities (it was

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