DR.DIFFERENT Retinal 1000 Signature Cream
Ingredients and claims, checked
Last checked September 6, 2026
What is it like at a glance?
What the ingredients do
Moisture seal leads, with 5 of 21 ingredients.
By skin type
- DryUse with care
- OilyNeutral
- SensitiveUse with care
Piboo’s rating from user reports.
Worth knowing
- Pregnancy: check first
- Has a fungal-acne trigger
- On pore-clogging lists
What is this product?
It's a cream.
- Key ingredients
- Retinal 0.1%
- When
- Evening
Who is it for?
Less suited to
- Sensitive skin
What's good, and what to watch for?
Good points
- Contains Retinal 0.1%
Watch-outs
- Pregnancy: check first (Retinal)
- Retinal, the namesake ingredient, is included in a small amount near the end of the list
- If you clog easily: Oleic Acid
- If you get fungal acne: Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
How do you use it?
- Where in your routine
- Treatment (PM)
- Pairs well with
- Ceramide or cholesterol-forward barrier cream
- Don't combine with
- AHA/BHA exfoliants or vitamin C in the same routine slot
What is in it?
The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Tap a name to read about that ingredient.
This brand publishes its ingredient list in Korean only. Names below are the matching INCI names from the Korean Cosmetic Association ingredient dictionary.
Worth a closer look
- Water
- Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
- Glycerin
- Squalane
- Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil
- Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
- Brassica Campestris (Rapeseed) Sterols
- Cholesterol
- Phytosteryl/Behenyl/Octyldodecyl Lauroyl Glutamate
- 1,2-Hexanediol
- Polyglyceryl-10 Oleate
- Sodium Hyaluronate
- Hydrogenated Lecithin
- Polyglutamic Acid
- Ceramide NP
- Retinal
- Stearic Acid
- Oleic Acid
- Tocopherol
- Adenosine
- Disodium EDTA
Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.
Claims
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Claims, checked
Daily Retinal
nothing specific to check
We quote each claim exactly as the brand published it, then check it against the ingredient list and the brand's own documents.
What else is worth seeing?
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Which articles cover it?
Articles on this site that write about this product.
- Retinal is the rare trend word that arrives with a numberSeventeen Korean products put retinal on the front. All sixteen with a list we hold print it, and fifteen print how much, which almost no trend word does.
- Squalane is not the oil your skin makes, and one study used it as the placeboSqualane is on 313 Korean labels and seven print a level. It is a good emollient. It is also the arm a wrinkle trial used as its control.
- The retinoid night is the one that decides whether skin cycling worksPick the strength you can hold for eight weeks, not the one you can survive once. A rare three step Korean concentration ladder, read side by side.