PHYSIOGEL DMT Facial Moisture Barrier Cream

What is this product?

Buy Physiogel's DMT Facial Moisture Barrier Cream for what is on the ingredient list, not for what the marketing leads with: 13 ingredients, no fragrance, no dye, no essential oil and no drying alcohol, built as an emulsifier-free lamellar cream on hydrogenated lecithin with squalane, shea butter and ceramide NP. The status language the brand leads with (국민크림, NO.1, decades-long best seller) comes with no share figure, ranking body or period attached to any of the three. One real caution: coconut palm oil sits fifth, which is the entry acne-prone and Malassezia-reactive skin will want to patch test.

What makes it different?

A 13-item list is short for a barrier cream, and this one spends the slots on structure rather than on a long actives roster: hydrogenated lecithin with no conventional emulsifier anywhere in the formula, which is what makes it a lamellar emulsion rather than a standard oil-in-water cream. Ceramide NP is present but printed last, so it is a finishing addition and not the load-bearing part of the formula. Physiogel publishes no pH and no amount for any ingredient here.

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
• Glycerin
• Pentylene Glycol
• Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Squalane
• Carbomer
• Xanthan Gum
• Sodium Carbomer
• Ceramide NP

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: Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 3 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.

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