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ZEROID Intensive Cream

Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read

Read on 2026-09-06

What is this product?

Buy Zeroid's Intensive Cream if your skin is dry, reactive or barrier-damaged and you want a rich final layer with nothing in it to react to: across the 26 ingredients there is no fragrance, no essential oil, no drying alcohol, no colourant and no acid, and the lipid trio it is built on (a pseudoceramide 12th, phytosterols 13th, squalane 5th) is the combination that actually rebuilds barrier rather than just adding water. What you do not get is proof. Zeroid publishes no amount for any of the 26 ingredients, no pH for this cream (only a 4.5 to 6.5 range for its whole range), and no test type, participant count or institution behind its claim that every age group including pregnant users can use it and that irritation is almost absent.

What makes it different?

The lipid design is the real point of difference: a pseudoceramide with phytosterols and squalane, rather than glycerin and thickener wearing the word barrier. It is also genuinely bare, with the preservation carried by two multifunctional glycols instead of scheduled preservatives, which is what the brand's preservative-free wording actually means. The trade is weight and evidence: seven of the first seventeen ingredients are oils and esters, which is more than oily or humid-weather skin wants, and several of those esters are the fatty-ester class that fungal acne reacts to. Nowhere does the brand say how much of anything it contains.

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 1 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

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, Cetyl Palmitate, Sorbitan Palmitate, Sorbitan Olivate, Glyceryl Stearate, Polyglyceryl-10 Distearate, Stearic Acid, Canola Oil, Olive Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 7 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.

backed by evidence1

  • No Zeroid product contains any steroid ingredient.
    Korean original

    제로이드 전제품에는 스테로이드 성분이 함유되어있지 않습니다.

likely, not proven2

  • Zeroid products are mildly acidic products similar to a healthy skin barrier (pH5.5).
    Korean original

    제로이드 제품은 건강한 피부 장벽(pH5.5)과 유사한 약산성 제품입니다.

  • There is a slight difference for each product, but they are made in the pH4.5~6.5 range.
    Korean original

    각 제품마다 약간의 차이가 있으나 pH4.5~6.5 범위에서 만들어지고 있습니다.

partly backed2

  • A high-moisture barrier care cream for severely dry and problem skin
    Korean original

    악건성 및 문제성 피부를 위한 고보습 장벽 케어 크림

  • Zeroid products are formulated so they can be used with maximum peace of mind and without irritation by not using preservatives, fragrance, alcohol, colorants, PEG-type emulsifiers, artificial antibacterial agents and the like, and in clinical and consumer evaluations as well, all products were shown to have almost no irritation.
    Korean original

    제로이드 제품에는 방부제, 향료, 알코올, 색소, PEG 계열유화제, 인공향균제 등을 사용하지 않음으로써 최대한 안심하면서 자극없이 사용할 수 있도록 처방하였으며, 임상 및 소비자를 대상을 한 품평에서도 전 제품에서 자극이 거의 없는 것으로 나타났습니다.

overstated ad line1

  • Zeroid products can be used across all age groups from infants and children through to the elderly. Pregnant women can also use them with peace of mind.
    Korean original

    제로이드 제품은 유.소아에서 노인에 이르기까지 전 연령대에서 사용이 가능합니다. 또한 임산부도 안심하고 사용하실 수 있습니다.

no evidence1

  • In the case of Zeroid Soothing Cream (Intensive Cream) and Soothing Lotion (Intensive Lotion), the formulation raw materials are identical but they are formulated with different ratios.
    Korean original

    제로이드 수딩 크림(인텐시브 크림)과 수딩 로션(인텐시브 로션)의 경우 처방원료는 동일하나 그 비율을 달리하여 처방하였습니다.

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.

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