Is Water Bank Blue Hyaluronic Intensive Cream (Refill) 50ml the authentic Korean formula?

Yes. We stock Laneige's Korean-market formula rather than a version reformulated for US shelves. The unit sold is the one listed on Korean shelves, with the Korean barcode and batch code intact on the box.

How should I store Water Bank Blue Hyaluronic Intensive Cream (Refill) 50ml?

Keep Water Bank Blue Hyaluronic Intensive Cream (Refill) 50ml away from direct sunlight and heat, and close the cap fully between uses so the formula stays stable for its full shelf life. A cool, dry spot out of a steamy bathroom is a better home for it than a windowsill or a shower shelf.

Laneige

Water Bank Blue Hyaluronic Intensive Cream (Refill) 50ml

Name: Laneige Water Bank Blue Hyaluronic Intensive Cream (Refill) 50ml
Brand: Laneige
SKU: 9712892806
Price: 52.5 USD
Availability: InStock

Water Bank Blue Hyaluronic Intensive Cream (Refill) 50ml is Laneige's cream, built around Squalane, Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate and Niacinamide on its own Korean-market ingredient list, sourced here as the authentic formula sold in Korea rather than a US-shelf reformulation.

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$52.50

50 ml

$105.00 per 100 ml

Korean-market formula
Ships from California or direct from Korea
Korean barcode and batch code intact

Suited to: NormalDryCombinationOily

Helps with: HydrationA dehydrated or tight-feeling complexionLayering into a multi-step Korean routine rather than being used as a stand-alone product

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How it works

Water Bank Blue Hyaluronic Intensive Cream (Refill) 50ml lists Squalane, Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate, Niacinamide, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate on its own Korean-market ingredient panel. Squalane is an emollient that closely resembles the lipids skin already produces, which is why it layers into a routine without a heavy, greasy residue. Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate is a fermented input, the kind of ingredient Korean labs have leaned on for years to soften how a formula sits on skin. Niacinamide sits high enough on this ingredient list to be a working part of the formula rather than a trace addition. As a cream, its texture and placement in a routine carry the result as much as any single ingredient does: it works best as the final step of a routine, sealing in everything applied before it. We stock Laneige's Korean-market formula, the same version sold on shelves in Seoul rather than a formula built for US retail, with the Korean barcode and batch code intact on the box.

Key benefits

Laneige's cream, sourced as the Korean-market formula rather than a US-shelf reformulation.
Names Squalane and Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate on its own Korean-market ingredient panel.
Fits as the final step of a routine, sealing in everything applied before it in a layered Korean routine.
Aimed at hydration.

Inside the formula

Ingredients declared

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Fragrance on the list

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Water/Aqua/Eau solvent: Water is the base almost every serum, toner and cream is built on. It dissolves the water-loving ingredients and sets how light the finished texture feels. On an INCI list it is usually first, which only means it is the largest single ingredient by weight.
Butylene Glycol humectant: Butylene Glycol is a small glycol that does two jobs at once: it holds water in the top layer of skin and it dissolves plant extracts and actives that plain water cannot. It also thins a formula, which is why watery Korean essences lean on it.
Cetearyl Alcohol fatty alcohol: Cetearyl Alcohol is a waxy solid, not the drying kind of alcohol. It is a blend of cetyl and stearyl alcohols used to thicken a cream and keep oil and water from separating, and it softens skin as it does so.
Glycerin humectant: Glycerin is the most used humectant in skincare. It draws water into the outer layer of skin and holds it there, and it is one of the very few ingredients whose hydrating effect is settled science rather than marketing. Higher amounts feel tacky, which is why it is usually blended.
Hydrogenated Poly(C6-14 Olefin) emollient: Hydrogenated Poly(C6-14 Olefin) is a synthetic hydrocarbon emollient. It gives a smooth, silicone-like glide and is completely stable, so it does not go rancid.
Diethylhexyl Succinate emollient: A succinic acid ester used as a light emollient and a solvent for other oil soluble ingredients. It has a dry, fast spreading feel rather than a rich one.
1,2-Hexanediol humectant: 1,2-Hexanediol is a glycol used for two reasons: it holds water like glycerin, and it makes a formula harder for microbes to live in, so less traditional preservative is needed. Korean formulas use it heavily for that second reason.
Glyceryl Stearate SE emulsifier: Glyceryl Stearate SE is the self-emulsifying grade, supplied with a little soap already built in so it can hold an emulsion with less help. It thickens and softens like the plain form.
Phytosteryl/Behenyl/Octyldodecyl Lauroyl Glutamate barrier lipid: An amino-acid-based lipid built on plant sterols. It structures the oil phase of a cream and echoes the lipid mix that already sits between skin cells.
Triolein emollient: Triolein is three oleic acid chains on a glycerin backbone, the main triglyceride in olive and high oleic oils. It is used as a rich emollient with a slow, cushioned absorption.
Glyceryl Stearate emulsifier: Glyceryl Stearate is glycerin joined to stearic acid, and one of the most used emulsifiers in skincare. It holds oil and water together and thickens the result, and it softens skin at the same time.
Squalane emollient: Squalane is the stable, saturated version of squalene, a lipid human skin already makes. It is a light emollient that absorbs quickly, does not oxidise, and is one of the few oils widely considered safe for blemish-prone skin. Most cosmetic squalane is now from sugarcane or olive rather than shark.

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Methyl Trimethicone silicone: Methyl Trimethicone is a light, volatile silicone chosen for a notably dry finish. It thins a formula and disperses powders evenly.
Isononyl Isononanoate emollient: Isononyl Isononanoate is a branched ester used as a dry emollient. It spreads far for its weight and leaves almost no residue, which is why it appears in formulas that have to feel weightless.
Myristyl Myristate emollient: A wax ester built from myristic acid and its matching alcohol. It is solid at room temperature and used to give a formula body and a powdery, non-greasy finish.
C10-18 Triglycerides emollient: A blend of triglycerides in a soft, butter-like form. It melts near skin temperature, which is why it appears in balms and cleansing sherbets.
Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate ferment: Lactobacillus Ferment Lysate is the ferment with the bacterial cells broken open, so their contents are in the formula too. It is a conditioning ferment used in barrier-focused products.
Cetearyl Glucoside emulsifier: Cetearyl Glucoside is a sugar-derived emulsifier used to hold oil and water together in creams with a light finish.
Carbomer thickener: Carbomer is a synthetic polymer that only gels once a base neutralises it, which is why arginine or tromethamine sits nearby on the list. It gives the clear, non-stringy gel texture a xanthan formula cannot reach.
Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer thickener: This is the thickener behind most gel-cream textures. It builds a soft, bouncy gel that collapses to a light fluid as it is rubbed in.
Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate emulsifier: Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate is an amino-acid-derived emulsifier. It holds oil and water together and is mild enough for formulas built for reactive skin.
Tromethamine pH adjuster: Tromethamine neutralises acidic thickeners such as carbomer so they gel, and holds a formula near skin-friendly pH. It is used at a fraction of a percent.
Niacinamide active: Niacinamide is vitamin B3, and it is the most studied active in Korean formulation. It is used at roughly 2 to 5 percent for the look of uneven tone and visible pores, and it is water soluble, stable and comfortable beside almost every other active, which is why it turns up in so many lists.
Sodium Metaphosphate chelator: A phosphate salt that ties up metal ions in water. It also stops the calcium and magnesium in hard water from flattening a cleanser foam.
Glyceryl Caprylate emulsifier: Glyceryl Caprylate is a mild emulsifier that also makes a formula less hospitable to microbes, so it is often part of a preservative-free system.
Propanediol humectant: Propanediol is a plant-derived glycol used in place of propylene glycol. It hydrates, carries actives into solution, and gives a lighter, less sticky slip than glycerin at the same strength.
Ethylhexylglycerin preservative booster: Ethylhexylglycerin softens skin and boosts a preservative system, which is why it is nearly always sitting beside phenoxyethanol or 1,2-hexanediol. It also cuts down the odour bacteria produce, so it turns up in deodorising products.
Ceramide NP barrier lipid: Ceramide NP is the most used cosmetic ceramide, the same class of lipid that makes up roughly half the mortar between cells in the outer layer of skin. Added to a cream it slots into that structure, which is why ceramide formulas feel less leaky rather than merely greasy.
Fragrance/Parfum fragrance: Fragrance, or Parfum, is a single declaration standing for a whole scent blend, which can be dozens of materials. Regulators allow it as a trade secret, so a list showing only this word does not say what the scent is made of. It is the most common trigger named by people with reactive skin.
Caprylyl Glycol preservative booster: Caprylyl Glycol is a glycol that conditions skin and, more importantly, strengthens a preservative system so less of the traditional preservative is needed. It appears in most modern formulas built without parabens.
Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid humectant: Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid is hyaluronic acid cut into much shorter fragments. The smaller the fragment, the further into the outer layer it can settle, which is why serums stack several sizes together instead of using one.
Sorbitan Isostearate emulsifier: Sorbitan Isostearate is a mild emulsifier that holds water into oil, the direction a cleansing balm or an oil-based cream needs.
Sodium Hyaluronate humectant: Sodium Hyaluronate is the salt of hyaluronic acid, and it is what most products labelled hyaluronic actually contain. The salt dissolves more readily and the molecule is smaller, so it sits in the outer layer of skin rather than only on top of it.
Dextrin thickener: Dextrin is a starch fragment used to thicken and to give a formula a light, powdery finish. It is also a common carrier for powdered extracts.
Asiaticoside active: Asiaticoside is one of the four active triterpenes isolated from centella and the most studied of them. Korean formulas name it separately when they want to show which fraction of the plant they standardised.
Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Flower Extract plant extract: Safflower Flower Extract is a traditional East Asian dye and skincare plant. It is used as a conditioning antioxidant extract and can tint a formula.
Madecassic Acid active: Madecassic Acid is the fourth centella triterpene. A list that names all four is telling you the extract was standardised rather than simply pressed, which is the difference between a cica claim and a cica formula.
Asiatic Acid active: Asiatic Acid is the third of centella's four triterpenes and the aglycone form, meaning it has no attached sugar. It is oil soluble, so it turns up in cica creams and balms more than in watery layers.
Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Extract plant extract: Cocoa Extract carries polyphenols and a little caffeine. It is used as an antioxidant plant extract and gives a faint warm tint.
Tocopherol antioxidant: Tocopherol is vitamin E. It is an oil-soluble antioxidant that protects the oils in a formula from going rancid and works on skin as an emollient, and it is regularly paired with vitamin C because each keeps the other going for longer.
Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer humectant: Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer is hyaluronic acid linked into a mesh. It holds water in a soft gel on the surface rather than sinking in, and it releases that water slowly through the day.
Hyaluronic Acid humectant: Hyaluronic Acid is a sugar chain the body already makes, and one gram of it can hold several litres of water. In a formula it is a humectant that pulls water to the surface of skin and holds it in a film, which is what makes skin look plumper while it is there.
Vegetable Oil / Olus Oil / Huile Végétale emollient: Vegetable Oil is a collective declaration for a blend of plant oils. It names a class rather than a species, so the label does not say which plants.
Adenium Obesum Leaf Cell Extract plant extract: Extract of desert rose leaf cells grown in culture. The plant is native to arid regions, and the cultured extract is used as a conditioning botanical.
Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate humectant: Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate is hyaluronic acid modified to be part oil-loving, so it clings to skin instead of rinsing away. Formulators call it the one that stays put.
Acetyl Tetrapeptide-2 peptide: Acetyl Tetrapeptide-2 is a four-amino-acid peptide used for the look of firmness, particularly in eye and neck formulas.
Undaria Pinnatifida Extract plant extract: Extract of the brown seaweed Korean cooking calls miyeok. It carries fucoidan and alginates, both strong water-holding polysaccharides.

How to use

Lift the used insert out of the jar you already own and press this one into its place.
Wipe the outer jar and lid before seating it, since a swap is the natural moment to clean them.
Use it as the last step at night, pressing a small amount over damp skin after your serum.
Do not order this as a first purchase, because a refill insert has no outer jar or lid of its own.

Worth knowing

Store away from direct sunlight and heat to keep the formula stable over its shelf life.
Patch test on a small area first if you are new to this formula or to the brand.

Complete the routine

This itemLaneige Water Bank Blue Hyaluronic Intensive Cream (Refill) 50ml$52.50
The treatment step of this routineLANEIGE Water Bank Aqua Facial Serum 30ml$52.50
From the same Korean-market lineLANEIGE Bouncy & Firm Eye Sleeping Mask 20g$45.00

Total for 3 items$150.00

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