PHYSIOGEL 레드수딩 AI 로션

What is this product?

A 200 ml soothing lotion for reactive skin from a dermatological heritage brand, sold through its Korean storefront. Its ingredient list is published only inside a very long detail picture, so the 17 entries here were transcribed from that image and marked as a transcription. The formula is short and plain: water, a medium chain triglyceride and shea butter as the oil phase, three humectants, hydrogenated lecithin, squalane and a ceramide as the barrier lipids, four thickeners, and two amide entries the page builds its soothing story around. There is no fragrance, no alcohol, no essential oil, no silicone, no colourant, no paraben, no anionic surfactant and no exfoliating acid anywhere on the list, and no conventional soothing or registered functional active either. The page publishes three efficacy figures, each with a named institute, a panel size and a date, though none publishes a baseline, a method or a report, and the redness test is dated 2007. The statutory block carries no functional cosmetic row, and records manufacture in Thailand with a Korean responsible distributor.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it and one of them is a caution rather than a selling point. First, the citation discipline: three separate efficacy figures each name an institute, a panel size and a date window, and one of them names the brand owner's own institute openly rather than hiding it. What none of the three publishes is a baseline, a measurement method or a report, and the redness test's printed window is from 2007. Second, an exclusion profile that is complete across all 17 entries and pairs with a list short enough to read in one pass: no fragrance, no alcohol, no essential oil, no silicone, no colourant, no paraben, no anionic surfactant and no acid. Against that, three things a reader should weigh: the page names its soothing active only by an abbreviation whose expansion appears nowhere on any surface read here, the statutory block carries no functional cosmetic registration at all, and the brand's own caution against use on wounded or eczematous skin sits directly against its page claim that extremely damaged skin can use it without concern.

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 4 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Glycerin
• Pentylene Glycol
• 쉐어버터
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Palmitamide MEA
• 하이드록시에칠셀룰로오스
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Xanthan Gum
• Betaine
• Squalane
• Sarcosine
• 아세트아마이드엠이에이
• Sodium Carbomer
• Carbomer
• 세라마이드엔피 (세라마이드3)

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/카프릭트리글리세라이드, 쉐어버터

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 20 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

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