Dr.Althea
Dr.Althea 147 Barrier Cream
Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read
Read on 2026-09-07
What is this product?
Dr.Althea's 147 Barrier Cream, 50ml, is a strong pick for dry, easily irritated skin: ectoin sits eleventh of 48 ingredients, ceramide NP thirtieth, and the last ten entries are ten different hyaluronate forms in a row, with no fragrance, no essential oil and no denatured alcohol anywhere on the list. The brand sells it on protecting the golden time of skin elasticity, and publishes no elasticity reading, no participant count and no amount for anything.
What makes it different?
Three things separate it on a barrier-cream shelf. Ectoin at position eleven is the first and the least common: it is an extremophile osmolyte with real published work on water retention and on protecting skin against irritant challenge, and very few creams at this level carry it that high. The second is the hyaluronate tail, ten distinct forms running consecutively as the final ten entries, including a cationic one that binds the skin surface, a crosspolymer that swells rather than dissolving and two silanol derivatives. The third is what the texture is built from: squalane, hydrogenated polydecene and a long-chain fatty alcohol group emulsified by alkyl glucosides, which avoids the plant butters and seed oils that make most rich creams a problem for fungal breakouts. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, betulin and guaiazulene fill out an unusual antioxidant and soothing set. Nothing on the label carries a percentage.
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.
Key ingredient
- Water
- Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Water
- Butylene Glycol
- Glycerin
- Hydrogenated Polydecene
- C14-22 Alcohols
- 1,2-Hexanediol
- Cetyl Alcohol
- Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
- Squalane
- Ectoin
- Dicaprylyl Ether
- Arachidyl Alcohol
- Behenyl Alcohol
- Vinyl Dimethicone
- C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside
- Sodium Polyacrylate
- Hydroxyacetophenone
- Arachidyl Glucoside
- Ethylhexylglycerin
- Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate
- Carbomer
- Xanthan Gum
- Tromethamine
- Disodium EDTA
- Hydrogenated Lecithin
- Coptis Japonica Root Extract
- Centella Asiatica Extract
- Ficus Carica (Fig) Fruit Extract
- Ceramide NP
- Maltodextrin
- Hydrolyzed Gardenia Florida Extract
- Tocopherol
- Betaine
- Guaiazulene
- Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide
- Betulin
- Beta-Glucan
- Dimethylsilanol Hyaluronate
- Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
- Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
- Sodium Hyaluronate
- Hyaluronic Acid
- Potassium Hyaluronate
- Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
- Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
- Sodium Hyaluronate Dimethylsilanol
- Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
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: 세틸에틸헥사노에이트, 소듐스테아로일글루타메이트, 하이드로제네이티드레시틴, 세틸알코올
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.
likely, not proven1
- 147 Barrier Cream
Korean original
147 베리어 크림
no evidence1
- Skin care solution that protects the golden time of skin elasticity
Korean original
피부 탄력 골든타임을 지키는 피부 케어 솔루션
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.