Medicube Red Cream 2.0

January. The cheeks flake at the corner of the nose while the chin keeps producing spots as though it were still July. Pick a cream for one of those two and it usually makes the other worse. This is the uncommon one that answers both at the same time.

Thick cream, 50 ml, the last thing on at night and a half dose under sun protection in the morning.

• Rich because of its waxes, not because of oil: stearyl alcohol and cetyl alcohol take third and fourth place. They are fatty alcohols, soft waxes that thicken a cream and slow the water leaving your skin, and they have nothing in common with the denatured alcohol that evaporates off a toner. Glyceryl stearate, shea butter, palmitic and stearic acid finish the frame.
• The chin handled while the cheeks are fed: zinc PCA, salicylic acid, o-cymen-5-ol, 4-terpineol, colloidal sulfur and tea tree leaf oil spread through the second half of the list. That pairing is what keeps a nourishing cream wearable on difficult combination skin.
• Red brought level around a blemish: niacinamide is sixth, with allantoin and dimethyl sulfone behind it. Marked patches settle back into the rest of the face over a few weeks.
• A tail end loaded with antioxidants: maca root, red pine needle, coffee seed, white willow bark, rutin and Aureobasidium pullulans ferment. They sit at the bottom of the list where comfort extracts belong, and they are what sellers mean when they count nineteen plant extracts.

Warm the dose between two fingers before it goes anywhere. The texture loosens noticeably and travels much further for it.

Recommended for combination skin that tightens in winter, sensitive skin that breaks out, dry cheeks sitting above a clogged chin, and the step that closes a Red routine.

Step 9 · Moisturizer

a dose the size of an almond, no more than that.

• Soften it between the fingers for a few seconds.
• Smooth it over the face, then carry on down the neck, lids left out.
• Morning asks for half as much, under sun protection and under makeup.
• Keep the thicker pass for the cheeks and the lighter one for the chin.

A full dose at night and half of one in the morning sees the 50 ml out in close to three months. English listings call this a light cream and the ingredient order says otherwise, so skin that runs oily all year round will find it heavy: the Zero Pore Cream 2.0 holds the same step at a fraction of the weight.

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Eau, Glycérine, Alcool Stéarylique, Alcool Cétylique, Stéarate de Glycéryle, Niacinamide, Méthylpropanediol, Poly(C6-14 Oléfine) Hydrogénée, Polyglycéryl-3 Distearate, 1,2-Hexanediol, Diméthicone, Diméthyl Sulfone, Cétyl Éthylhexanoate, Beurre de Karité (Butyrospermum Parkii), Acide Palmitique, C12-14 Alketh-12, Acide Stéarique, Glutamate de Stéaroyle de Sodium, Citrate de Stéarate de Glycéryle, Allantoïne, Carbomère, Trométhamine, Acide Salicylique, o-Cymen-5-ol, 4-Terpineol, Ethylhexylglycérine, Zinc PCA, Butylène Glycol, Soufre Colloïdal, Huile de Feuille de Melaleuca Alternifolia, Alcool Myristylique, Glucose, Extrait de Coptis Japonica, Tocophérol, Alcool Laurique, Acide Myristique, Acide Arachidique, Acide Oléique, Limonène, Troxérutine, Pentylène Glycol, Propanediol, Extrait de Feuille de Camellia Sinensis, Extrait de Feuille de Centella Asiatica, Extrait de Cladosiphon Okamuranus, Extrait d’Écorce de Salix Alba, Décyl Glucoside, Acide Lévulinique, Extrait de Graines de Coffea Arabica, Géraniol, Extrait de Feuille de Citrus Aurantium Bergamia, Extrait de Feuille de Pinus Densiflora, Extrait de Racine de Lepidium Meyenii, Extrait de Racine d’Asparagus Cochinchinensis, Ferment d’Aureobasidium Pullulans, Acide Hydroxycinnamique, Rutine

List provided by the supplier and translated. The composition printed on the pack is authoritative.