Real Barrier Extreme Cream

What is this product?

A balm type barrier cream from Real Barrier in a 75 ml tube, filed as a Korean functional cosmetic for barrier function recovery. The 47 item Korean ingredient list leads with water, butylene glycol, caprylic/capric triglyceride and glycerin, and carries a skin mimicking lipid set of amide lipids, phytosterol and phospholipid, plus panthenol, allantoin, madecassoside and sodium hyaluronate. No concentration is printed. There is no fragrance entry, but six essential oils sit together near the middle of the list. The brand publishes instrument data from its own studies: hydration readings above an untreated site 100 hours after use, rises in winter-like and very dry conditions, and a barrier reading that more than doubles one day after use, on panels of 20 to 23 people. Its safety badges carry no printed results.

What makes it different?

Instrument readings from the brand's own studies rather than claims alone, including an untreated control in the 100 hour hydration test, attached to a formally filed barrier recovery function. Against that, six essential oils in one run and safety badges without results make it a less certain pick for skin that reacts to aromatic oils.

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 2 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Glycerin
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Propanediol
• Panthenol
• Myristoyl/Palmitoyl Oxostearamide/Arachamide MEA
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Polyglyceryl-10 Distearate
• Dimethicone
• Sorbitan Stearate
• 겨우살이열매추출물
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil
• Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
• Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
• Xylitylglucoside
• Anhydroxylitol
• Xylitol
• Glucose
• Tocopheryl Acetate
• 피 토스테롤
• Phospholipids
• Dihydroxyisopropyl Palmoylpalmamide
• Bis-Capryloyloxypalmitamido Isopropanol
• Allantoin
• Acetyl Heptapeptide-4
• Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
• Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Oil
• Pogostemon Cablin Oil
• Elettaria Cardamomum Seed Oil
• Mentha Arvensis Leaf Oil
• Anthemis Nobilis Flower Oil
• Juniperus Mexicana Oil
• Biosaccharide Gum-1
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Acetyl Dipeptide-1 Cetyl Ester
• Madecassoside
• Stearic Acid
• Carbomer
• Caprylyl Glycol
• Sorbitan Laurate
• Hydroxyethylcellulose
• Sodium Levulinate
• Glyceryl Caprylate
• p-Anisic Acid

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: 살비아오일, 광곽향오일, 소두구씨오일, 콘민트오일, 캐모마일꽃오일, 멕시칸주니퍼오일, 글리세릴스테아레이트, 폴리글리세릴-10다이스테아레이트, 솔비탄스테아레이트, 메도우폼씨오일, 올리브오일, 해바라기씨오일, 스테아릭애씨드, 솔비탄라우레이트, 세테아릴알코올

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 47 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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