ZEROID Soothing Cream

What is this product?

An 80 ml barrier cream from ZEROID's soothing line, sold through a brand site with a retailer locator rather than a cart, and carrying no functional cosmetic registration. Its 22 printed ingredients run water, glycerin, propanediol, caprylic/capric triglyceride, with a pseudoceramide at position 11, methyl caprooyl tyrosinate at 12, phytosterol at 13 and bisabolol at 15. There is no fragrance entry, no essential oil, no denatured alcohol and no colourant anywhere in the list, and no exfoliating acid, the one acid entry being stearic acid at 9 doing emulsion work, and none of the ten materials the brand names as excluded appears in it. Three brand studies are published: a single use sensitivity reading on 21 subjects, an infrared provocation with an untreated control on the same panel, and a two week moisture study on 15 subjects dated 2010. Every percentage on the page recomputes correctly from the bar values printed beside it.

What makes it different?

A barrier cream whose case rests on a pseudoceramide, a phytosterol and two calming entries rather than on an ingredient story, with a 22 entry list that carries no fragrance, no essential oil, no exfoliating acid, its one acid entry being the stearic acid at 9 that does emulsion work, and none of the ten materials the brand publishes as excluded. The second separator is arithmetic discipline: every percentage the page prints can be recomputed from the before and after values printed next to it, which is a different failure profile from pages that publish only headlines.

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

• Water
• Glycerin
• Propanediol
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Sorbitan Stearate
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Stearic Acid
• Dimethicone
• Myristoyl/Palmitoyl Oxostearamide/Arachamide MEA
• Methyl Caprooyl Tyrosinate
• Phytosterols
• Tocopheryl Acetate
• Bisabolol
• Xanthan Gum
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Carbomer
• Arginine
• 1.2-헥산다이올
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Tropolone

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: 카프릴릭/카프릭트라이글리세라이드, 솔비탄스테아레이트, 잇꽃씨오일, 글리세릴스테아레이트, 스테아릭애씨드, 세테아릴알코올

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 26 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 of them hold 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?

Products we read alongside this one.

• ZEROID Intensive CreamThe gentler one of the two
• ZEROID Soothing LotionAnother product in the same category