Realbarrier Ceramide Moisture Cleansing Foam

What is this product?

If mild washes usually leave you reaching for moisturizer straight away, Realbarrier's Ceramide Moisture Cleansing Foam is built for the opposite: 220ml of a wash led by two amino acid surfactants printed third and fourth on a 50-item list, with no sulfate and no soap, and enough of an oil phase to take sunscreen off in one step, which is where the brand's 94 percent sunscreen removal figure comes from. It is the rare cleanser that prints amounts, four ceramide-class entries in all: 12 ppm of ceramide NP plus three pseudoceramides at 10 ppm each, 42 ppm together, in something that is rinsed away in under a minute.

What makes it different?

Three things set it apart on the foam shelf. First, it carries a real oil phase, a medium-chain triglyceride with two emulsifiers, a phospholipid and a self-emulsifying stearate, which is why the one-step sunscreen claim has a mechanism behind it and not only a percentage. Second, it discloses ppm on four ceramide-class entries when no brand is obliged to publish anything, candour that cuts both ways, because it also lets you work out that the whole ceramide complex adds up to 42 ppm in a product that goes down the drain. Third, all three legs of the skin's own lipid trio are deliberately there, ceramides plus the two others, 피토스테롤 as the sterol and 미리스틱애씨드 as the fatty acid, and that fatty acid is exactly why Malassezia-prone skin should think twice; the 11가지 hyaluronic acid story on the front, meanwhile, is 8 entries on the label, sitting alongside 17 free amino acids, and that same 50-item list carries no fragrance and no ethanol.

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
• Sodium Cocoyl Glycinate
• Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate
• Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate
• Potassium Benzoate
• Glyceryl Stearate SE
• Citric Acid
• Sodium Chloride
• Polyquaternium-67
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Disodium EDTA
• Butylene Glycol
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Ceramide NP
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Myristoyl/Palmitoyl Oxostearamide/Arachamide MEA
• Myristic Acid
• Dihydroxyisopropyl Palmoylpalmamide
• Bis-Capryloyloxypalmitamido Isopropanol
• Phytosterols
• Succinic Acid
• Glycine
• Serine
• Glutamic Acid
• Aspartic Acid
• Leucine
• Alanine
• Lysine
• Tocopherol
• Arginine
• Tyrosine
• Phenylalanine
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Valine
• Threonine
• Proline
• Isoleucine
• Histidine
• Methionine
• Cysteine
• Bromelain
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Potassium Hyaluronate

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: Myristic Acid, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Glyceryl Stearate SE

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 22 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

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

• AESTURA Atobarrier 365 Cleansing FoamAnother product in the same category
• Torriden Dive-In Low Molecular Hyaluronic Acid Cleansing FoamAnother product in the same category

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• Dry skin is short on lipid, not water, so build the routine around thatDry and dehydrated are different problems with different answers. Five Korean products for the lipid side, with the ceramide figures each one prints.
• When a label counts its hyaluronic acids, count them yourselfFront labels count them: three, eight, eleven. The list that settles it is printed on the same box, and three of the five counts here are exactly right.
• The study is real. Now read how it was builtFive brands published the study behind their headline number, which most do not. The better question starts there: how many people, how long, against what?