PHYSIOGEL Red Soothing AI Repair Cream 100ml Gift Set

What is this product?

This is Physiogel's Red Soothing AI Repair Cream in its 100ml gift configuration, and it is one of the quietest formulas sold for redness: 19 ingredients with no fragrance, no dye, no essential oil, no drying alcohol and no botanical extract, soothing handled by palmitamide MEA (palmitoylethanolamide), acetamide MEA and sarcosine over an olive-and-palm oil base. Two things to check before buying. Olive oil sits second, so acne-prone skin should patch test. And the listing is named for a 100ml unit plus 30ml plus two masks, a configuration the brand's own page does not offer, where its option list stops at the 30ml addition.

What makes it different?

Nineteen entries with no extract, no fragrance and no dye is a shorter and plainer list than the centella creams this competes with, and the soothing work is done by fatty acid amides instead of a botanical. The brand's claims are the weak half: the page promises resilience against any irritation and improvement in the skin's own defensive capacity with no trial, institution, subject count or figure behind either, and folds a damaged-barrier-improvement claim into the product title itself. 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 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

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

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