YBK Ceramide Relief Hydration Emulsion

What is this product?

Reach for this 120ml pump emulsion if the goal is water and lipids on skin that is dehydrated, reactive or barrier-tired: the lotion step is where it belongs, after a toner and under a cream. Two things make the case. The lipid deck is the full lamellar set, five ceramides plus cholesterol and phytosphingosine, which is rare at this list length, and the soothing side runs on centella printed first ahead of water at a self-reported 79.9 percent, with all four centella acids listed separately. A brand-published 30-subject primary irritation study reported an index of 0.0, and the 46-item list names no fragrance, no drying alcohol and no exfoliating acid. Skip it for shine control: nothing in the formula acts on sebum, and the page's oil-balance promise reduces to a dosing instruction. Skip it too if flaking dryness needs sealing, since the formula holds water but forms no film. pH and an English INCI list are not published, and the brand's EWG green and only-efficacy-ingredients wording is self-assigned and contradicted by its own list.

What makes it different?

Two things separate it inside the Korean lotion-step field. It prints centella extract ahead of purified water and then lists all four centella acids and all five stratum corneum ceramides plus cholesterol and phytosphingosine as separate entries, so the soothing and barrier stories are both carried by named molecules rather than by one extract doing double duty. And it is built around a dosing instruction rather than a fixed application: one, two or three pumps by skin condition, which is unusually concrete advice on a page whose other promises are not.

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

• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Water
• Glycerin
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Pentylene Glycol
• Squalane
• Ceramide NP
• Ceramide NS
• Ceramide AS
• Ceramide AP
• Ceramide EOP
• Madecassoside
• Asiaticoside
• Asiatic Acid
• Madecassic Acid
• Nelumbium Speciosum Flower Extract
• Artemisia Annua Extract
• Oryza Sativa (Rice) Extract
• Saccharomyces Ferment
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Potassium Hyaluronate
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate
• Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate
• Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer
• Dimethylsilanol Hyaluronate
• Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer
• Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate
• Cetearyl Alcohol
• Panthenol
• Glyceryl Stearate
• Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil
• Jojoba Esters
• Allantoin
• Carbomer
• Tromethamine
• Butylene Glycol
• Sodium Phytate
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• Stearic Acid
• Disodium EDTA
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Tocopherol
• Cholesterol
• Phytosphingosine

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: Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Jojoba Esters, Glyceryl Stearate, Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Stearic Acid, Cetearyl Alcohol

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 21 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.

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