Dong-A Pharmaceutical Deep-Barrier Pro Cream

What is this product?

Dong-A's Deep-Barrier Pro Cream is for skin that needs lipids put back rather than more water: across 56 ingredients it carries two ceramides, cholesterol, phosphatidylcholine and beta-glucan, with squalane and shea butter doing the sealing. Read the barrier story with one correction, though, because the classic barrier triad needs a free fatty acid alongside the ceramides and cholesterol, and no free fatty acid is printed anywhere in the list.

What makes it different?

Two named ceramides plus cholesterol and phosphatidylcholine is an unusually complete lipid panel for a pharmacy-brand cream at this size. It also carries adenosine, the standard Korean notified wrinkle-improvement active, and the retail record this document takes its ingredient table from states that the product has completed the functional-cosmetic filing required under Korean cosmetic law, without naming which function was filed. No 향료 entry and no drying alcohol appear among the 56 ingredients, which suits reactive skin. Every amount is undisclosed, so the lipids are confirmed present but not confirmed meaningful.

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
• Butylene Glycol
• Glycerin
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Panthenol
• Polyglycerin-3
• Squalane
• Niacinamide
• Pentylene Glycol
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Vinyl Dimethicone
• Stearyl Alcohol
• Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• Macadamia Integrifolia Seed Oil
• Cetyl Palmitate
• Sorbitan Olivate
• Sorbitan Palmitate
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Cetearyl Olivate
• Disteareth-100 IPDI
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Arginine
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Allantoin
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Adenosine
• Sodium Phytate
• Sorbitan Isostearate
• Beta-Glucan
• Ceramide NP
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Betaine
• Phosphatidylcholine
• Cholesterol
• Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate
• Ceramide AP
• Glutathione
• Ammonium Lactate
• Ascorbyl Palmitate
• Tocopherol
• Aluminum Sucrose Octasulfate
• Brassica Campestris (Rapeseed) Sterols
• Phytosteryl/Behenyl/Octyldodecyl Lauroyl Glutamate
• Polyglyceryl-10 Oleate
• Sodium Surfactin
• Cellulose
• Hexylresorcinol
• Fibronectin
• Cetyl Alcohol
• 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.

We could not place these in the list above: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Cetyl Palmitate, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Sorbitan Palmitate, Hydrogenated Lecithin

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 2 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 of them look 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