DR.DIFFERENT Retinal 1500 Signature Cream

What is this product?

This is the strongest rung of DR.DIFFERENT's own three-step retinal ladder: 0.15 percent retinaldehyde stacked with retinol and retinyl palmitate, which none of its two weaker siblings carry. The brand's own product page claims liposome stabilization for deep wrinkle and elasticity care, but names no test, no participant count and no measured result behind that claim anywhere the sentence appears.

What makes it different?

It is the only SKU in this brand's retinal line combining three vitamin-A forms rather than one, at the line's highest labeled retinaldehyde percentage (0.15 versus 0.1 and 0.05).

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Each name links to what we know 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, except 1 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• 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
• 폴리글레시릴-10올리에이트
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Polyglutamic Acid
• Ceramide NP
• Retinal
• Stearic Acid
• Retinol
• Tocopherol
• Oleic Acid
• Adenosine
• Disodium EDTA
• Retinyl Palmitate
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

We could not place these in the list above: Oleic Acid, Retinal, Retinol, Retinyl Palmitate

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 2 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them looks likely, though none are proven outright.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

Each line is quoted as the brand published it, and each one was read on its own against the ingredient list and the documents the brand publishes.

How we read these lines

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

• DR.DIFFERENT Retinal 1000 Signature CreamAnother product in the same category
• DR.DIFFERENT Retinal 500 Signature CreamAnother product in the same category
• DR.DIFFERENT Secolzi 311 Moisture Barrier CreamAnother product in the same category

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• Retinal is the rare trend word that arrives with a numberTwelve Korean labels put retinal on the front. All twelve print it in the ingredient list, and eleven print how much, which almost no trend word does.
• Bakuchiol or retinol: the gentle one is the one you cannot checkRetinoid labels print a level 19 times out of 34. Bakuchiol labels print one twice out of 19. That asymmetry decides which of the two you can shop for.
• 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.