Dong-A Pharmaceutical Acne Pro Cream

What is this product?

Dong-A's Acne Pro Cream is the calming half of the Acne Pro pair rather than an exfoliating treatment: it carries niacinamide fourth of 34 ingredients and zinc PCA, with no exfoliating acid and no drying alcohol in the list, though succinic acid does appear at 26. The catch is sixth place, where isopropyl myristate sits, an ester that scores high for pore-clogging in the older assay literature, and Dong-A prints no amount for any ingredient.

What makes it different?

Where the sibling gel leads with denatured alcohol and prints salicylic and glycolic acid, this one has neither the drying alcohol nor an exfoliating acid: it is an emulsion built on 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이글리세라이드 and fatty alcohols, which makes it the option for skin that reacts badly to acids. Niacinamide and zinc PCA are the two actives with real acne evidence behind them here. No 향료 entry appears among its 34 ingredients. The isopropyl myristate in sixth place is the one thing worth checking against your own history of clogged pores.

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
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• Niacinamide
• Propanediol
• Isopropyl Myristate
• Palmitic Acid
• Phenyl Trimethicone
• Stearyl Alcohol
• Stearic Acid
• Cetearyl Olivate
• Glyceryl Stearate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Sorbitan Olivate
• Butylene Glycol
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Pentylene Glycol
• Arginine
• Carbomer
• Disodium EDTA
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Glycerin
• Dimethyl Sulfone
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Succinic Acid
• Zinc PCA
• Lauryl Glucoside
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Pinus Densiflora Leaf Extract
• Sophora Angustifolia Root Extract
• Poncirus Trifoliata Fruit Extract
• Saururus Chinensis Leaf/Root Extract
• Cinnamomum Cassia Bark Extract

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 Triglyceride, Isopropyl Myristate, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Palmitic Acid, Stearic Acid

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked the one line 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