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About this product

A fragrance-free, alcohol-free essence with a milky gel texture, designed to hydrate skin and support a plumper, firmer look with NAD+ and peptides.

Full ingredients

Water, Glycerin, Hydrogenated Poly(C6-14 Olefin), Polyglycerin-3, Butylene Glycol, Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate, Propanediol, Dimethicone, 1,2-Hexanediol, Niacinamide, Methylpropanediol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/​VP Copolymer, Sodium Polyacrylate, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Carbomer, Xanthan Gum, Pentylene Glycol, Tromethamine, Ethylhexylglycerin, Adenosine, Palmitic Acid, Stearic Acid, Sodium Phytate, Cholesterol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Adenosine Triphosphate, Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin, Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, Beta-Glucan, Tocopherol, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Copper Gluconate, Saccharomyces/​Copper Ferment

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Guru Score

83%

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6 experts · Moderate agreement

What the gurus are saying

That thick, milky, gel-like texture is what reviewers keep returning to, as it leaves skin plumper and dewy fast. Many found it hydrating and fragrance-free, and it works under sunscreen or makeup if applied carefully. The one thing to keep in mind: the heavy feel is too much for oily or combination skin and anyone under thirty. Lifting divides opinion, with some seeing firmer skin after about three months and others feeling no lift.
Synthesized from 6 expert reviews · most recent take September 2026

What they liked

  • Plumps and firms noticeably
  • Silky, comfortable finish on skin
  • Hydrating without irritation

What they flagged

  • Too heavy for oily or combination skin
  • Heavy texture may feel like too much under thirty

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Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

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✓Yay
"Numbuzin No. 9 NAD Sill Boosting Essence is wonderful. [...] It has some peptides, a little bit of each one. I've really noticed this instantly plumps skin in appearance and long-term. I've been using this for probably close to two years and it's really been a great product in my routine. I highly recommend checking it out. It's really wonderful."
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"I think this is my fourth bottle of it. It's the Numbuzin No. 9 Bio-Lifting Silk Essence, 26 bucks at YesStyle. It's alcohol-free, fragrance-free. They call it an essence, but it's a serum. [...] It's more of a goopy kind of serumy, lotiony, gel texture. [...] There's basically 50 peptides in here, so you get a little bit of each peptide, which is great. It's got astaxanthin, great antioxidant. It's got NAD+, that great antioxidant we love. Beta-glucan, resveratrol."
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"I don't love it as much as I do the number nine NAD uh sill essence. I love that stuff. Can't convince me to give it up. I love it."
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"I love the packaging of this, it's pretty, it's shiny, it's purple. [...] I also like that they included a little window so you can see how much you have left. [...] I've used about half of the bottle in about a month, so it's very easy to see how much you have used and then to purchase it before you run out. [...] It's got a nice pump, so no issue with the packaging. [...] In terms of denatured alcohol, it does not contain any of those."
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"They're wonderful. They contain over 50 different peptides and [...] I just noticed my skin looks so plump after I use it. This morning for my routine, I cleansed, I applied this as a toner, I applied this as a serum, sunscreen, foundation, and my skin feels really nice right now and hydrated. I think this will be a real winner on really cold winter nights because your skin just after you applied it instantly it looks plumped up and feels better, smoother, all that good stuff."
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"I've got some fun new products Nano recipe the NAD serum from nin I'm freaking loving it"
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"It's probably 28 bucks right now at YesStyle, so I am sold on it. I've only been using it for a handful of days now, but so far so good. I can't say anything bad about it yet. Maybe the NAD won't be the anti-aging ingredient, but I'm very curious and excited about it. [...] There's so many ingredients in here, they're small amounts, and a lot of these peptides have been shown to work well even in small amounts like 0.2%, [...] so I think it's something worth a try and it's not expensive."
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"I love this stuff. I already have my backup of it. I've got two backups of it. The entire line is amazing. [...] I love this lineup, fragrance free, full of peptides, full of antioxidants, soothing ingredients, hydrating ingredients. It doesn't get any better than that. [...] If you haven't tried it and especially if you have dry and normal skin or live somewhere that it's dry, this is worth checking out. I just love it. I love having a little bit of every peptide in there."
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"I just love it so much. It's just such a great combination of ingredients."
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"So the goodies, let's see, shea butter, sodium hyaluronate, we've got some ferments, several of them, mushroom extract that's always a nice one to see. [...] Clover extract, clover, that might technically be like a fragrant extract, it has no scent but clover I'm going to do some digging on that one because I don't see that one show up often. Then we've got astaxanthin, wonderful ingredient, I love that stuff, and people take it as a supplement. We [...] got tons of peptides in here."
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"This stuff is great. I've gone through, this is probably my seventh bottle of it. It's been out since January of last year. [...] I picked up a few when I was overseas in Japan and South Korea. But this one in addition to that, it also contains beta glucan which is a great soothing ingredient. We've got the zinc peptide claimed to help boost collagen production in skin. We've got alpha-lipoic acid, resveratrol, great antioxidant."
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"I love it. It's been out for about a year and a half or so. The star of the show for this one is [...] NAD Plus. Manufacturers say it helps support collagen production, aid DNA repair from UV damage, and strengthen the skin barrier. The serum feels really nice and silky and instantly like plumping. It seems to help around the eye area, helps with fine lines and wrinkles. In addition to the NAD Plus, the real star of the show for this one is 50 plus peptides. It's got them all."
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"9 Bio Silk Essence. It's a wonderful, kind of goopy serum that gives skin a really nice glowy look and feel. It has no scent, which is nice. It contains NAD+ as well as dozens of other peptides and several amino acids and antioxidants. It's really a wonderful product for the price, a really good package in terms of ingredients and price. I really love this line from Numbuzin, they really knocked it out of the park with it, one of the few lines I've been impressed with every single product in."
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"Numbuzin No. 9 NAD Sill Boosting Essence is wonderful. [...] It has some peptides, a little bit of each one. I've really noticed this instantly plumps skin in appearance and long-term. I've been using this for probably close to two years and it's really been a great product in my routine. I highly recommend checking it out. It's really wonderful."
✓Yay
"This is phenomenal. It has 50 different peptides all focused on different benefits, some plump the skin, others hydrate, some even out the skin tone, and a lot of them [...] boost collagen and elastin for anti-aging. It's got NAD in there too, which helps fade hyperpigmentation and boosts collagen at the margins. [...] This plumps, it hydrates, it gives you that bouncy glass skin that we all crave, and it's super lightweight so it doesn't weigh you down."
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"I love these. [...] The toner is the best seller, but the ampule is really nice. The eye cream's great. They've just repackaged the eye cream, so it's in so much better packaging. This is a little kit that I got to kind of try out, see what the sizes are like. I love this. If you're new to Numbuzin as a brand, if you're new to this 9 plus line and you want to try out, but you don't know where to start, this is a really cheap kit."
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"If you like slightly thicker serums, this is an absolute gem. It will plump you to the gods, minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and take literally like 5 years off the look of the skin just on one application. The plumping in this is thanks to the glycerin, the 50 different peptides that you have in here and that NAD. All together, this is just a powerhouse anti-aging serum. And look how it just sinks into the skin, giving the nicest finish."
No1 Anti Aging - TOP 10 PEPTIDE SERUMS 2025
"So, dispel that myth. This will deliver. It lifts. It firms. It plumps like no other product. I absolutely love it. And I think again from Korean skincare market, this is such a nice product. This, I would say again, is best for people that want plumping. They want that juiciness to the skin because it does leave a nice glowy finish. [...] The plumping happens instantly. The lifting and firming takes like 3 months, but it's worth it. It's an investment that genuinely works."
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"It's a wonderful product to firm, to lift, to plump, and to hydrate. It's a one-stop shop and super inexpensive. [...] It has like a glue like texture and consistency to it. And that is what gives that beautiful plumping. You work this into the skin and you will be instantly nourished, hydrated. Your skin will be plumper. It'll diminish fine lines and wrinkles. And you definitely over time with consistent use will get some lifting and firming thanks to that peptide action."
Ultimate KOREAN SKINCARE For ANTI AGING - Secret To Firmer Skin
"So just a plethora of peptide goodness for anti-aging. They also have some bespoke ingredients. In here you've got NAD in the serum, which is great for lifting and firming. I've [...] used these consistently for a year now [...] and I've got great results. If you like the NAD [...] and prefer a serum, go for this one. [...] All amazing. [...] At the moment, I'm reaching for the serum."
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"This is a really well-formulated serum, and I think the best thing is it's £25 for 50ml, which is roughly around $28. That's really affordable for the quality of formulation you're getting. It has a very unique texture, quite jelly-like because it's packed full of so many peptides and NAD. [...] Personally, I actually think that's really nice, a different texture for your skincare routine, and it sinks in beautifully."
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"Bar none. This is the best lifting, plumping, skin juicing up serum you will ever try. They do a toner version, which is really nice. Gives it a little extra glow. They do a sunscreen in this now, which again is nice if you want your sun protection with those peptides. But I keep it simple. I just go for this serum and you layer it as part of my skincare routine and you will get the bounciest, juiciest skin of your dreams. I honestly can't sing the praises of this enough."
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"It's got 50 different peptides in here which are really just going to take control that collagen production, boost firmness, elasticity, and smooth you out. But the best thing is because of the formula, it gives the nicest instant plumping you will ever have on your skin. It's got a thicker consistency than maybe you would expect, but you put that in, it sinks in without a trace and gives you the plumpest, juiciest skin of your dreams. So, long-term anti-aging, absolutely, but instant results."
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"This I did a whole video on because I loved it so much when it launched. [...] The best firming and lifting serum I have used. If you want to snatch everything, if you want to pull everything back, hydrate to the gods and plump at the same time. This little gem, which I think is about £15, doesn't break the bank, and you get a lot. [...] You get 50 mil in here. So it's larger than your average serum, and it's cheaper than your average serum."
Greatest KOREAN SKINCARE BRAND 2026 - This Hands Down Changed My Skin
"They have a serum which I have here. This is their NAD biolifting essence. It's called an essence, but it has a serum texture and is phenomenal. 50 different peptides alongside that NAD to lift, to firm, and have some great anti-aging."
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"We've got the Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Bio-Lifting Silk Essence which, if you haven't heard about this, it's going viral and for good reason. 50 different peptides in this little gem and it's packed full of other beneficial ingredients as well, so boosting collagen and elastin. I love it so much I covered it in a separate video. It's great for lifting and firming the skin."
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"And this is one of the best products. This has a very unique texture. It almost feels like PVA glue, you know that glue that we used to use when we're at school. It almost feels like that. But it disappears with no tackiness, no stickiness at all. And this has 50 different peptides in it. So if you're somebody that loves a peptide fix, and I am definitely pro peptide when it comes to my skincare routine, this has the highest number I think that exists in skincare planet earth."
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"I love this. [...] I speak about this on a near daily basis. I genuinely love it. This gets a bit of a rough ride online. There are those people that just adore it and say it's like the best thing ever. I'm in that group. Others say I just think it's overblown. Particularly people tend to pick apart the 50 peptides that are in here. This contains a blend of 50 different peptides. People say if it's got 50 peptides in, they're all going to be in low concentrations doing nothing."
KOREAN SKINCARE AWARDS 2025 - K-Skincare Of The Year 2025
"It lifts, it firms, it plumps, it does it all. In fact, this has been on rotation for me for many, many, many months. And I've talked about it very openly on the channel about how it's my favorite product. It really I can't recommend it enough. It has 50 different peptides. And really, the brand have thought about choosing each one of those individual peptides to focus down on the firming, the lifting, and the plumping. Different peptides do different things."
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"Last year's winner of this award went to the Numbuzin No.9 Plus NAD Biolifting Essence, and this product is still going strong in my skincare routine. I think I'm like 15 bottles in to using this and I don't think I'm ever going to be without it. An absolute 10 out of 10 superstar. If you're still using last year's winner, keep at it, because this again is still going strong in my routine."
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"This is phenomenal. It has 50 different peptides all focused on different benefits, some plump the skin, others hydrate, some even out the skin tone, and a lot of them [...] boost collagen and elastin for anti-aging. It's got NAD in there too, which helps fade hyperpigmentation and boosts collagen at the margins. [...] This plumps, it hydrates, it gives you that bouncy glass skin that we all crave, and it's super lightweight so it doesn't weigh you down."
✓Mixed
"This one is made for lifting and anti-aging, and I was surprised how moisturizing it is. But I just don't recommend it for oily combo skin, it's too heavy."
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"This one is made for lifting and anti-aging, and I was surprised how moisturizing it is. But I just don't recommend it for oily combo skin, it's too heavy."
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"The texture is pretty heavy and very milky, but surprisingly if you apply it well it absorbs in nicely and can even work before makeup because of that heavy texture, for oily or combo skin. If you're under thirty it'll feel like too much for you, and for dry mature skin if you're over forty or fifty you can try it, but I didn't feel anything lifting, it's just a hydrating serum."
✓Yay
"I have loved using this in the daytime under sunscreen. It contains fifty peptides and an NAD ingredient, and while I do not think we can say with certainty how much of that is doing the work, I think they did an incredible job on this product. Ultimately it is a really great fragrance free, non irritating product. I absolutely love this, I think this might be my favorite product from this entire video."
✓Yay
"We have NAD+ for cellular energy, peptides for collagen support, and there's a strong base of protective antioxidants. I've been using this product since 2024. I've gone through so many bottles of it. It makes my skin look incredibly fresh, rejuvenated, healthy, youthful, and glowing. But it also provides a good base of moisture that I really appreciate in my nighttime routine. Plus, it is a great base for my sensitive skin for the retinoid product I'm about to use next."
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"I've been using it for a long time and I really enjoy this. Many of you have told me this has been a savior alongside your tretinoin or retinoid use because not just because of the ingredients, because it boosts those benefits, but also because of the texture. It really helps to reduce that dryness, the irritation, the itchiness. It keeps your skin really supple and plump, hydrated, and moisturized alongside ingredients that can kind of dry your skin out."
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"So, you know, I'm a big fan of Numbas and products. I was using the number 9 plus essence all throughout the colder months"
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"I've been testing this since January and it's actually a really great, just straight up moisturizing type of essence. [...] It's a really nice pair with LED treatment [...] because this is all about helping to regenerate the skin. It's great for supporting all of those well-aging processes and slowing down aging in the skin. The NAD+ helps with cellular regeneration, there's a lot of antioxidant peptides. [...] The texture looks creamy and it is moisturizing."
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"I am finally ready to name the Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Bio-Lifting Silk Essence as the best of 2025. This is such a gorgeous chewy dewy type of product. There's a lot going on in the formula. This is an essence that includes NAD+, which is a really nice kind of complimentary well-aging ingredient. I feel like the last handful of years, 2024, 2025, have really seen an uptick in these complimentary well-aging or anti-aging ingredients."
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"This has definitely kept those benefits up where my skin is just looking really healthy and lit from within. When I'm talking healthy and lit from within, I'm not necessarily talking about like an even or bright complexion, which I do have and I had prior to starting this product."
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"I was very grateful they were able to sponsor the video, but I have been using the product for quite a while and I was holding off naming it as a favorite. But I will say March is the month that it's going to be in the favorites category. NAD+ is an interesting ingredient, one of those novel ingredients that we're going to see a lot more interest and attention and focus on in this next year or two."
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"This is actually a product that I really fell in love with during the colder months and one that I actually did start to put away during the warmer months for my combination skin that leans dry in the cold months and leans a little oily in the warm months. So, that can kind of help you understand where the moisture levels are with this essence."
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"Using this product long term, this gives such a beautiful plumpness, hydration, moisture, and balance to the skin. The glowiness is incredible. If you want glass skin, this is your product because [...] it offers immediate results for hydration, plumpness, juiciness, chewy, dewiness, glass skin. [...] I'm hooked. [...] But using this product long term, I can tell you it really helps to improve the quality of your skin. [...] I'm talking about skin tone, skin texture, skin health."
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"I combined those two separate products in my routine consistently over quite a few months and I carried that over into 2025 and that product combo was really like mwah chef's kiss for my skin glow up in that period of time because especially the NAD+ being that active booster. I noticed so many accelerated results with skin texture, firmness, smoothness as well as my skin complexion. And there was just a glowiness and a healthiness to my skin. It really improved the quality of my skin."
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"It has an emulsion texture that's a little more on the moisturizing side than you'd first think, with a bounciness that sinks in nicely, softens right at the surface, not oily and greasy, and leaves my skin feeling plump and looking very dewy, which contributes to glass skin because it really helps improve skin quality over long-term use. It finally earned its place in my best of 2025 video and it's still making its way into this video because I'm still using it in 2026."
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"We have NAD+ for cellular energy, peptides for collagen support, and there's a strong base of protective antioxidants. I've been using this product since 2024. I've gone through so many bottles of it. It makes my skin look incredibly fresh, rejuvenated, healthy, youthful, and glowing. But it also provides a good base of moisture that I really appreciate in my nighttime routine. Plus, it is a great base for my sensitive skin for the retinoid product I'm about to use next."
✓Mixed
"It improves your skin hydration and it improves your skin texture like you know skin becomes very soft, feel soft, feel soft, it shows, be very careful I am using my words really carefully skin soft feel happens, doesn't show and skin hydration level improves"
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What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Niacinamide

Niacinamide has evidence behind it for redness, uneven tone and supporting the skin barrier, and it is usually well tolerated even by skin that reacts to most things.

Source: DermNet

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Peptides

Peptides are short protein fragments meant to signal repair. The evidence for them is thinner than for retinoids or vitamin C, and it varies a lot by the specific peptide, so the category is more promising than proven.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Bio-Lifting Silk Essence?

A fragrance-free, alcohol-free essence with a milky gel texture, designed to hydrate skin and support a plumper, firmer look with NAD+ and peptides.

Is Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Bio-Lifting Silk Essence worth it?

Mostly yes. 4 of the 6 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 83%.

What is Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Bio-Lifting Silk Essence's Guru Score?

Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Bio-Lifting Silk Essence holds a Guru Score of 83%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 6 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.

Who is Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Bio-Lifting Silk Essence best for?

Numbuzin No.9 NAD+ Bio-Lifting Silk Essence is generally suited to mature skin.

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