PHYSIOGEL Red Soothing AI Repair Cream

What is this product?

Physiogel's Red Soothing AI Repair Cream is a strong pick for dry, reactive skin that wants soothing without a single potential irritant: no fragrance, no dye, no essential oil, no drying alcohol and no botanical extract, built on olive and palm oil with palmitamide MEA (palmitoylethanolamide), acetamide MEA and sarcosine. Read the promotional numbers with their footnotes, because they shrink, and note that all of them come from an archived magazine feature rather than a brand-hosted product page: the barrier claim rests on a ten-day, 33-person single-group study with no stated endpoint, the skin-density claim's result is never printed, and the 1.35 figure is a ratio against single-product use indexed to 100 rather than a measured rise in skin defence. Olive oil sits second, which is the reason acne-prone skin should patch test first.

What makes it different?

Nineteen entries with no extract, no fragrance and no dye is a quieter list than almost anything else marketed for redness, and the soothing work is done by fatty acid amides rather than by centella or panthenol as the category default. Palmitamide MEA, the second-listed of those amides at position ten, is palmitoylethanolamide, which has a real dermatological literature behind it in irritated skin. Two safety tests are named in the archived magazine feature that carries this product's claim copy, non-comedogenic and sensitive patch, with no subject count, institution, date or result given for either, while the two efficacy claims in that same feature do carry those details. 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
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• Glycerin
• Pentylene Glycol
• Elaeis Guineensis (Palm) Oil
• Vegetable Oil
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Squalane
• Betaine
• Palmitamide MEA
• Acetamide MEA
• Sarcosine
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Carbomer
• Sodium Carbomer
• Xanthan Gum
• Tocopherol
• Disodium Phosphate
• Sodium Phosphate

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: Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Elaeis Guineensis (Palm) Oil

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 5 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

What else is worth seeing?

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