DR.DIFFERENT Retinal 500 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
- DryGood fit
- OilyNeutral
Piboo’s rating from user reports.
Worth knowing
- Pregnancy: check first
- Has a fungal-acne trigger
- On pore-clogging lists
What is this product?
- Key ingredients
- Retinal 0.05%
- When
- Evening
A cream that seals in moisture as the last step. It comes in a 20 ml size.
Who is it for?
Good for
- Dehydrated oily skin
- Sensitive skin
What to watch for?
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
- Stearic Acid
- Retinal
- 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
See the claim, checked
Claims, checked
Entry-Level 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.
- Running a four night cycle with Korean productsSkin cycling gives each night one job. Here is what each night needs from a formula, and four Korean labels checked against the job they are being asked to do.
- 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.