PHYSIOGEL DMT for Men Facial Cream

What is this product?

Physiogel's DMT for Men Facial Cream is the light, no-frills option for oily or combination skin that wants moisture without weight: 20 ingredients, humectant-led, with niacinamide eighth and a soothing trio of centella, allantoin and licorice-derived dipotassium glycyrrhizate, and no fragrance, dye, essential oil or drying alcohol anywhere in the list. Copper tripeptide-1 and one ceramide entry are printed near the end, so they are finishing touches rather than the substance of the formula. Skip it if your skin is genuinely dry, because the emollient phase stops at squalane and there is no butter or heavier occlusive behind it.

What makes it different?

For a men's cream this is unusually restrained: no fragrance at all, where most of the category leans on it, and no plant butter, wax or silicone in the emollient phase. The brand copy carried on the product's own page is the weak part. It advertises a No.1 moisturising-cream brand with no market, category, period or ranking body named, and that sentence sits in the archived page's og:description meta tag as site-wide brand chrome rather than as a claim about this cream. The reseller line that calls the hydration long-lasting attaches no duration and no test to the word.

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
• Glycerin
• Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate
• Butylene Glycol
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Niacinamide
• Panthenol
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Squalane
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Allantoin
• Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Ceramide NP
• Copper Tripeptide-1
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
• Tromethamine

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: Glyceryl Stearate, Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 2 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

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