Ruuve 5-Ceramide Lotion

What is this product?

Buy this 200ml lotion for the lipid deck: five ceramide classes (NP, NS, AP, AS, EOP) with cholesterol and phytosphingosine, which is the complete lamellar lipid set rather than a token ceramide, and the count in the product name checks out exactly against the statutory ingredient row. It suits dry, flaking or reactive skin, and the screen is clean, with no fragrance, no drying alcohol, no exfoliating acid and a single botanical in twenty-five items. Two things to weigh. The humectant side is thin, glycerin, 1,2-hexanediol, trehalose and butylene glycol with no hyaluronate and no panthenol, so it holds water better than it supplies it and works best over a wet layer. And the product is almost entirely undocumented: the whole detail page is images, the archived text carries one brand slogan and no usage instruction, and there is no irritation test, no dermatological assessment, no pH and no content figure for any ceramide. The baby framing in the page title rests on no test in the collected material.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it. It carries all five ceramide classes plus cholesterol and phytosphingosine in a twenty-five item list, which is a complete lamellar lipid set at a list length where most products manage one ceramide, and its own statutory notice is what proves the count. The second is a documentation vacuum: the brand publishes an ingredient row and its own name, and nothing else. The collection notes record no usage instruction, no texture description, no test, no pH and no ingredient story in the checked scope (the eleven archived files raw/17,18,19,21,22,23,26,27,28,29,30.html plus the transcribed detail image lotion_body_25.jpg), so the ingredient list is not merely the best evidence about this product, it is very nearly the only evidence found.

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
• Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
• Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Polyglyceryl-2 Stearate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Stearyl Alcohol
• Ceramide NP
• Xanthan Gum
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Squalane
• Trehalose
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Stearic Acid
• Butylene Glycol
• Centella Asiatica Leaf Extract
• Ceramide NS
• Cholesterol
• Phytosphingosine
• Ceramide AP
• Ceramide AS
• Ceramide EOP

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: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cetearyl Alcohol, Stearyl Alcohol, Stearic Acid

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 3 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds 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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