CellFusionC Post Alpha Cica Calming Down Cream

What is this product?

CellFusionC's Post Alpha Cica Calming Down Cream is worth it for the centella and questionable for the calming promise, and the deciding line is at the very end of the label: 향료 is printed 70th of 70 ingredients, so a fragranced cream is being sold to sensitive skin. The centella itself is unusually thorough, eight entries covering four plant parts and four isolated triterpenes, but CellFusionC prints no amount for any of them and the four triterpenes sit past position 55. The cooling is not a metaphor either: a synthetic cold receptor agonist sits at position 49.

What makes it different?

Four centella plant parts and four isolated centella acids on one label is more of that raw material than most calming creams carry, and the barrier side is built properly too, with ceramide NP, cholesterol and squalane rather than one token ceramide. The cooling comes from a menthol free cold receptor agonist, so it reads cold without the sting reactive skin usually gets. What separates it in the other direction is the fragrance: most creams marketed at sensitive skin drop it, and this one keeps it. CellFusionC also publishes no pH, which matters for a product whose name promises calm.

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.

Worth a closer look

• Water
• Glycerin
• Methylpropanediol
• Methyl Trimethicone
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Isodecyl Neopentanoate
• Hydrogenated Polyisobutene
• Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
• Trehalose
• Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract
• Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract
• Ocimum Sanctum Leaf Extract
• Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract
• Coccinia Indica Fruit Extract
• Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Extract
• Corallina Officinalis Extract
• Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract
• Aloe Barbadensis Flower Extract
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Centella Asiatica Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract
• Centella Asiatica Root Extract
• Centella Asiatica Leaf Extract
• Albatrellus Confluens (Mushroom) Extract
• Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Extract
• Chrysanthemum Parthenium (Feverfew) Extract
• Pinus Pinaster Bark Extract
• Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Titanium Dioxide
• Cetearyl Olivate
• Dimethiconol
• Sorbitan Olivate
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Arachidyl Alcohol
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Behenyl Alcohol
• Allantoin
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Polyglyceryl-2 Caprate
• Butylene Glycol
• Arachidyl Glucoside
• Sucrose Stearate
• Disodium EDTA
• Stearic Acid
• Alumina
• Dextrin
• Glyceryl Caprylate
• Methyl Diisopropyl Propionamide
• Aluminum Sucrose Octasulfate
• Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate
• Squalane
• Saccharomyces Ferment
• Maltodextrin
• Saccharide Hydrolysate
• Ceramide NP
• Asiaticoside
• Madecassoside
• Cholesterol
• Cholesteryl Macadamiate
• Palmitic Acid
• Saccharide Isomerate
• Hydrolyzed Lupine Protein
• Guaiazulene
• Glycine
• Glutamic Acid
• Madecassic Acid
• Asiatic Acid
• Arginine
• Fragrance

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: 폴리글리세릴-10라우레이트, 수크로오스스테아레이트, 세테아릴올리베이트, 솔비탄올리베이트, 하이드로제네이티드레시틴, 콜레스테릴마카다미에이트, 팔미틱애씨드, 호호바씨오일

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 5 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them looks likely, though none are proven outright.

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