THE HARNAY Cicaide Soothing Barrier Cream

What is this product?

A Korean barrier cream in a 100ml tube, aimed at skin that is reactive or recovering from in-clinic treatment. The formula is built on density rather than on any single ingredient: 57 entries printed in descending concentration order, holding ceramide NP with hydrogenated lecithin, four separate hyaluronic acid forms plus a hydrolysed glycosaminoglycan, five centella entries including the isolated triterpenes, and eight peptides. What it leaves out is the point for sensitive skin: no fragrance entry, no essential oil, no ethanol and no exfoliating acid anywhere in the list. Texture is decided by two silicones, which makes the dry-down light and also rules the product out for anyone avoiding them. The brand publishes four human-application panels at one named institution, with dates and subject counts of 21 to 23, plus low-irritation results of 0.00 from two institutions. Read those with their panel sizes attached: they are single-arm and uncontrolled, no report is linked, and no concentration is published for any active. The tube is mid-renewal, and the brand states the packaging changed while composition and content did not.

What makes it different?

Ingredient density with nothing to react to: ceramide, lecithin, four hyaluronic acid forms, five centella entries and eight peptides across 57 entries, with no fragrance entry, no essential oil, no ethanol and no exfoliating acid among them. Against that, the marketing outruns its own studies, claiming proof from four uncontrolled single-arm panels and a seven day result the footnotes never report.

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 2 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Glycerin
• Butylene Glycol
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Cyclopentasiloxane
• Cetearyl Olivate
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
• Trehalose
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Prunus Mume Fruit Extract
• Lonicera Japonica (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract
• Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract
• Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Extract
• Ceramide NP
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Madecassoside
• Madecassic Acid
• Asiaticoside
• Asiatic Acid
• Carnosine
• Glutathione
• Acetyl Hexapeptide-8
• Copper Tripeptide-1
• Acetyl Tetrapeptide-3
• Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5
• Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5
• Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Dimethicone
• Sorbitan Olivate
• Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Pentylene Glycol
• Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Isohexadecane
• Allantoin
• Polysorbate 80
• Xanthan Gum
• Panthenol
• Propanediol
• Octyldodecanol
• Sorbitan Oleate
• Disodium EDTA
• 아디픽애씨드
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Benzyl Glycol
• 라즈베리케톤

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: 폴리솔베이트80, 글리세릴스테아레이트, 폴리글리세릴-3메틸글루코오스다이스테아레이트, 세테아릴올리베이트, 솔비탄올리베이트, 솔비탄올리에이트, 시어버터

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 26 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

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?

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