Theralogic Phytocera Pro Antioxidant 10X Firming Lifting Cream

What is this product?

Theralogic's Phytocera Pro Antioxidant 10X Firming Lifting Cream is a serious barrier cream with a marketing name it cannot back: six ceramides are printed on a 58 ingredient list, including the ester linked EOP form, with cholesterol, phytosphingosine and stearic acid completing the barrier lipid set. The 10X names no baseline, assay or comparator and Theralogic publishes no test for it, and lifting is beyond what any leave on cream can do. Two things to weigh: 향료 is printed 26th, and shea butter at 5 with ethylhexyl palmitate at 34 make this a poor pick for congestion prone skin.

What makes it different?

The complete ceramide set, EOP, AP, AS, NG, NS and NP rather than a lone NP, is what separates this from the ceramide creams beside it, and Theralogic pairs it with cholesterol and a free fatty acid so the three arms of the barrier lipid trio are all present. Shea butter fifth and meadowfoam seed oil seventh make it genuinely rich rather than a light gel wearing a cream label. Against that, ethylhexyl palmitate at 34 is the one entry here that rates toward the high end of the comedogenicity literature, and squalene at 48 is the oxidation prone form of that molecule rather than squalane. Nothing on the label carries an amount.

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
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Butylene Glycol
• Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
• Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
• Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil
• Niacinamide
• Cetearyl Olivate
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Sorbitan Olivate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Hydrogenated Polyisobutene
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Hydrogenated Polydecene
• Hydroxyacetophenone
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Carbomer
• Propanediol
• Polyacrylate-13
• Vinyl Dimethicone
• Tromethamine
• Ceramide NP
• Allantoin
• Cetearyl Glucoside
• Fragrance
• Coptis Japonica Root Extract
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Xanthan Gum
• Adenosine
• Polymethylsilsesquioxane
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
• Disodium EDTA
• Ethylhexyl Palmitate
• Sorbitan Isostearate
• Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Extract
• Propylene Glycol
• C18-36 Acid Triglyceride
• Dextrin
• Hydrolyzed Collagen
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Jojoba Esters
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Thamnolia Vermicularis Leaf Extract
• Stearic Acid
• C12-18 Acid Triglyceride
• Squalene
• Phytosterols
• Phytosteryl Macadamiate
• Cholesterol
• Phytosphingosine
• Tocopherol
• Ceramide NG
• Ceramide NS
• 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: 시어버터, 메도우폼씨오일, 세테아릴올리베이트, 솔비탄올리베이트, 글리세릴스테아레이트, 하이드로제네이티드레시틴, 폴리글리세릴-10라우레이트, 에틸헥실팔미테이트, 솔비탄아이소스테아레이트, C18-36애씨드트라이글리세라이드, 호호바에스터, 스테아릭애씨드, C12-18애씨드트라이글리세라이드, 피토스테릴마카다미에이트

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