Dermafirm Soothing Repair Toning Cream R4

What is this product?

Dermafirm's Soothing Repair Toning Cream R4 is worth a look if you want a trace-care cream that also carries a calming panel: niacinamide sits sixth, with bakuchiol tenth, glutathione, ferulic acid, sodium guaiazulene sulfonate and two peptides behind it across 76 ingredients. Check twenty-fifth place before buying, where 향료 is printed, which is high for a cream sold under a soothing name, and Dermafirm states no amount for anything on the list.

What makes it different?

Pairing bakuchiol with niacinamide, glutathione and ferulic acid in one cream is a wider trace-care panel than most soothing creams carry, and sodium guaiazulene sulfonate is a more specific anti-inflammatory pick than centella alone. A sixteen-entry free amino acid block plus copper tripeptide-1 closes it out. The listing record prints a functional-cosmetic filing row reading 필함, though the row names no function so no regulated efficacy claim rests on it. Being fragranced is the clearest thing separating it from unscented calming rivals, and the evidence base is thin: no brand-owned page for this SKU is among the files held for it, so everything here reads off one retail record.

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 ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Propanediol
• Glycerin
• 2,3-Butanediol
• Hydrogenated Polydecene
• Niacinamide
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Caprylic/Capric/Succinic Triglyceride
• Mannitol
• Bakuchiol
• Tocopherol
• Synthetic Beeswax
• Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate
• Glycereth-26
• Cetearyl Olivate
• Polysorbate 60
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Sorbitan Sesquioleate
• Microcrystalline Cellulose
• Sorbitan Olivate
• Carbomer
• Glyceryl Glucoside
• Sucrose
• Tromethamine
• Fragrance
• Squalane
• Zea Mays (Corn) Starch
• Glutathione
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Adenosine
• Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose
• Phosphatidylcholine
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Butylene Glycol
• Disodium EDTA
• Coptis Japonica Root Extract
• Perilla Ocymoides Leaf Extract
• Eucalyptus Globulus Leaf Extract
• Gardenia Florida Fruit Extract
• Dextrin
• Benzyl Glycol
• Beta-Glucan
• Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Guaiazulene Sulfonate
• Arginine
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Potassium Cetyl Phosphate
• Sodium Surfactin
• Sodium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate
• Ferulic Acid
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1
• Copper Tripeptide-1
• Glycine
• Serine
• Aspartic Acid
• Glutamic Acid
• Leucine
• Lysine
• Alanine
• Proline
• Phenylalanine
• Threonine
• Valine
• Isoleucine
• Tyrosine
• Histidine
• Methionine
• Cysteine

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: Caprylic/Capric/Succinic Triglyceride, Cetearyl Olivate, Polysorbate 60, Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate, Sorbitan Sesquioleate, Sorbitan Olivate, Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Synthetic Beeswax, Bakuchiol

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 3 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