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ILLIYOON Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cream Versus Pyunkang Yul Moisture Serum

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Korean Brand South Korea
Korean Brand South Korea

Updated on March 21, 2025

Overview

What they are

These products are both vegan, cruelty-free, and reef safe . They have a total of 6 ingredients in common

Suited For

They're both likely to be good for dry skin and scar healing

Free From

They both do not contain any harsh alcohols, common allergens, parabens or sulfates

What's Inside

They both contain oils and silicones

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Ingredient Info

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About this product

About this product

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Key Ingredients

Benefits

Concerns

Benefits

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Ingredients Side-by-side

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Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cream

Ingredients Explained

These ingredients are found in both products.

Ingredients higher up in an ingredient list are typically present in a larger amount.

Humectant, Masking, Skin Conditioning

Butylene Glycol (or BG) is used within cosmetic products for a few different reasons:

  • It is a solvent, meaning that it helps to dissolve other ingredients. This also enhances the absorption of the product into one's skin.
  • It is a humectant, which means that it helps attract moisture into the skin.
  • It helps improve product application.
  • It has mild preservative properties.

Overall, Butylene Glycol is a safe and well-rounded ingredient that works well with other ingredients.

Emollient, Skin Conditioning, Skin Protecting

Dimethicone is a type of synthetic silicone created from natural materials such as quartz.

What it does:

Dimethicone comes in different viscosities:

Depending on the viscosity, dimethicone has different properties.

Ingredients lists don't always show which type is used, so we recommend reaching out to the brand if you have questions about the viscosity.

This ingredient is unlikely to cause irritation because it does not get absorbed into skin. However, people with silicone allergies should be careful about using this ingredient.

Note: Dimethicone may contribute to pilling. This is because it is not oil or water soluble, so pilling may occur when layered with products. When mixed with heavy oils in a formula, the outcome is also quite greasy.

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Cleansing, Emulsifying, Emulsion Stabilising

Stearic Acid is a fatty acid. It is an emollient, emulsifier, and texture enhancer.

As an emollient, stearic acid helps soften skin. It aids the skin's protective barrier by preventing water loss. It also provides a gentle cleansing effect without stripping away natural oils.

Stearic acid may also be used to enhance the texture of products. It can add volume and stabilize ingredients such as water and oil. This can help water and oil ingredients from separating.

Sources of stearic acid include animal or vegetable fats/oils such as coconut or shea. It can be naturally found in butter, cocoa butter, shea butter, vegetable fats, and animal tallow.

This ingredient may not be Malassezia folliculitis, or fungal-acne safe.

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Skin Conditioning, Solvent

1,2-Hexanediol is a synthetic liquid and another multi-functional powerhouse.ย 

It is a:

  • Humectant, drawing moisture into the skin
  • Emollient, helping to soften skin
  • Solvent, dispersing and stabilizing formulas
  • Preservative booster, enhancing the antimicrobial activity of other preservativesย 
Emollient, Emulsifying

Glyceryl Caprylate comes from glycerin and caprylic acid, a fatty acid from coconut. It has emollient and emulsifier properties.

As an emollient, it helps hydrate your skin. Emollients work by creating a barrier on your skin to trap moisture in, helping to keep your skin soft and smooth.

On the other hand, emulsifiers prevent ingredients (such as oil and water) from separating.

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Emulsion Stabilising, Gel Forming

Carbomer is a polymer of acrylic acid. Its main role is to create a gel consistency.

A high amount of carbomer can cause pilling or balling up of products. Don't worry, most products contain 1% or less of carbomer.

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63% use in pm
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Reviews

Here's what our community thinks

ILLIYOON Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cream 42 ingredients

3.4 /5
from 55 ratings
Heavy (20) Great Value (18) No Scent (17)
raggedrobbin's avatar

raggedrobbin

1 year ago
Review

Unexpectedly nice on my sensitive and acne-prone skin. Didn't cause breakouts
and didn't feel heavy at all and worked great under makeup.

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UPDATE:

I've come back to say that this is officially my moisturizer endgame and ultimate HG.

After trying out almost all of the (AB and non AB) barrier / repair moisturizers raved about online, my verdict is that not only is this (still) the Show more

#great value
#hydrating
#absorbs well
#no scent
Butter's avatar

Butter

1 year ago
Review

โ‹†.เณƒเฟ”*:๏ฝฅ ๐ŸคŽ

๐Ÿฅฅ ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ž: ๐ƒ๐ซ๐ฒ/๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž, ๐š๐œ๐ง๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐œ๐ณ๐ž๐ฆ๐š ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ž.

๐Ÿชด ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ:

ยทหš เผ˜โ‚Šยท อŸอŸอžอž๊’ฐโžณ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ˆ'๐ฏ๐ž ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ž๐œ๐ณ๐ž๐ฆ๐š. ๐ˆ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ž, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ง๐๐ฌ, ๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ค, ๐ค๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ฌ & ๐ž๐ฅ๐›๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ž๐œ๐ณ๐ž๐ฆ๐š ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ'๐ฏ๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ข๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ค๐ž๐ž๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ž๐œ๐ณ๐ž๐ฆ๐š ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  (๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ž ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ž๐œ๐ณ๐ž๐ฆ๐š ๐‡๐€๐’ ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ Show more

#great value
#hydrating
#no scent
#works well

Pyunkang Yul Moisture Serum 15 ingredients

3.0 /5
from 1 rating