What is Cica Calming Down Cream?

It is Cell Fusion C's face cream (50ml). Its own ingredient list names Trehalose, Centella Asiatica Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Methylpropanediol, positioned the way the key-actives panel on this page describes, rather than actives assumed from the product name. It is used as the last step of a routine, to seal in the layers underneath.

How do I use Cica Calming Down Cream?

Use it as the last step of a routine (or before a separate night cream at night), sealing in the layers underneath. AM and PM. Keep the same order every time you use it so you can tell what is actually working, and give a new step a few weeks before judging the result.

Is Cica Calming Down Cream the authentic Korean-market formula?

Yes. This listing is Cell Fusion C's Korean-market formula: the same ingredient list, barcode and batch code as the unit sold on shelves in Korea, rather than a version reformulated for US retail. That is the whole reason to buy a Korean-market brand from a specialist rather than a general retailer.

Where does Cica Calming Down Cream fit if I already use sunscreen or makeup?

Apply Cica Calming Down Cream before sunscreen or makeup, and let it absorb fully first so it does not pill under the next layer. Sunscreen still goes on last in the morning, and makeup after that, regardless of how many treatment steps come before it.

Who is Cica Calming Down Cream suited for?

It is not restricted to any one skin tone or age group. As with any new step, patch-test on the inner arm first if you are new to this formula or to Cell Fusion C.

Cell Fusion C

Cica Calming Down Cream 50ml

Name: Cell Fusion C Cica Calming Down Cream 50ml
Brand: Cell Fusion C
SKU: 11330110955
Price: 45.0 USD
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Cica Calming Down Cream is Cell Fusion C's face cream (50ml), built around Trehalose and Centella Asiatica Extract. It is used as the last step of a routine, to seal in the layers underneath. This is over-labeled in English for US sale rather than reformulated for the US market.

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50 ml

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Korean-market formula
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Korean barcode and batch code intact

Suited to: NormalCombinationDry

Helps with: Dehydration and a barrier that feels compromisedReactive, easily irritated skin that needs calmingEveryday moisturizing that layers under sunscreen or makeupSealing in the steps applied underneath

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Key benefits

Trehalose is named directly on Cica Calming Down Cream's own ingredient list
Centella Asiatica Extract is named directly on Cica Calming Down Cream's own ingredient list
Sodium Hyaluronate is named directly on Cica Calming Down Cream's own ingredient list
Cica Calming Down Cream fits as the last step of a routine, to seal in the layers underneath
Cell Fusion C's Cica Calming Down Cream is sold here as the Korean-market formula: over-labeled in English for US sale rather than reformulated for the US market
Cica Calming Down Cream keeps the Korean barcode and batch code that print on the unit sold on shelves in Korea

Key actives

3Methylpropanediol

Named directly on this formula's own ingredient list, at position 3 of 71 on this label's own ingredient list. This is read from the manufacturer's own listed order rather than assumed from the product name, which is what separates a genuine formula component from a name-only claim.

All products with Methylpropanediol

9Trehalose

a sugar-derived humectant used to help a formula hold moisture. It sits at position 10 of 71 on this label's own ingredient list. This is read from the manufacturer's own listed order rather than assumed from the product name, which is what separates a genuine formula component from a name-only claim.

All products with Trehalose

19Centella Asiatica Extract

cica, the calming botanical extract that anchors a huge share of current Korean skincare. It sits at position 20 of 71 on this label's own ingredient list. This is read from the manufacturer's own listed order rather than assumed from the product name, which is what separates a genuine formula component from a name-only claim.

All products with Centella Asiatica Extract

28Sodium Hyaluronate

the salt form of hyaluronic acid, a humectant that holds water at the skin's surface. It sits at position 29 of 71 on this label's own ingredient list. This is read from the manufacturer's own listed order rather than assumed from the product name, which is what separates a genuine formula component from a name-only claim.

All products with Sodium Hyaluronate

Inside the formula

Ingredients declared

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Fragrance on the list

3Methylpropanediol9Trehalose19Centella Asiatica28Sodium Hyaluronate

3Methylpropanediol
9Trehalose
19Centella Asiatica
28Sodium Hyaluronate

Where each key active sits on the declared ingredient list, by entry number. Position is proportion: the further forward, the larger its share.

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Water solvent: Water is the base almost every serum, toner and cream is built on. It dissolves the water-loving ingredients and sets how light the finished texture feels. On an INCI list it is usually first, which only means it is the largest single ingredient by weight.
Glycerin humectant: Glycerin is the most used humectant in skincare. It draws water into the outer layer of skin and holds it there, and it is one of the very few ingredients whose hydrating effect is settled science rather than marketing. Higher amounts feel tacky, which is why it is usually blended.
Methylpropanediol humectant: Methylpropanediol is a small glycol used to hydrate and to help water-soluble actives penetrate the outer layer of skin more evenly. It leaves almost no tack, which suits watery textures.
Methyl Trimethicone silicone: Methyl Trimethicone is a light, volatile silicone chosen for a notably dry finish. It thins a formula and disperses powders evenly.
1,2-Hexanediol humectant: 1,2-Hexanediol is a glycol used for two reasons: it holds water like glycerin, and it makes a formula harder for microbes to live in, so less traditional preservative is needed. Korean formulas use it heavily for that second reason.
Hydrogenated Polyisobutene emollient: Hydrogenated Polyisobutene is a stabilised synthetic hydrocarbon used in place of mineral oil. It is an emollient that leaves a smooth, cushioned film.
Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer thickener: This is a synthetic thickener that gels quickly and holds an emulsion stable across a wide pH range. It gives a light, non-tacky body.
Trehalose humectant: Trehalose is a sugar that some desert plants use to survive drying out. In skincare it is a humectant that holds water in the outer layer and helps a formula feel comfortable rather than tight.
Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract plant extract: Melia Azadirachta is neem. Its leaf and flower extracts are long-standing Ayurvedic ingredients, and Korean formulas use them in products aimed at the look of congested, blemish-prone skin.
Ocimum Sanctum Leaf Extract plant extract: Ocimum Sanctum is holy basil, or tulsi. Its leaf extract carries plant antioxidants and is used in formulas built for the look of stressed, reactive skin.
Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract plant extract: Turmeric Root Extract carries curcuminoids, well studied plant antioxidants. It is used for the look of dullness and uneven tone, and it tints a formula faintly yellow.
Coccinia Indica Fruit Extract plant extract: Coccinia Indica is ivy gourd. Its fruit extract is used as a conditioning, hydrating plant extract in Korean formulas.

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Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Extract plant extract: Cocoa Extract carries polyphenols and a little caffeine. It is used as an antioxidant plant extract and gives a faint warm tint.
Corallina Officinalis Extract plant extract: Corallina Officinalis is coral seaweed, which holds calcium and magnesium in its structure. Its extract is used as a mineral-rich conditioning ingredient.
Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract plant extract: Eggplant Fruit Extract carries nasunin, the antioxidant pigment in aubergine skin. It is used as an antioxidant plant extract.
Aloe Barbadensis Flower Extract plant extract: Aloe Flower Extract comes from the flower rather than the leaf gel. It is used as a conditioning plant extract.
Centella Asiatica Extract plant extract: Centella Asiatica is the plant behind the whole cica category, sold as gotu kola or Madagascar centella. Its extract is the anchor of Korean formulas built for easily reddened skin, and its work is done by four triterpenes: asiaticoside, madecassoside, asiatic acid and madecassic acid.
Albatrellus Confluens (Mushroom) Extract plant extract: Extract of a bracket mushroom. Like other fungal extracts it carries beta glucan polysaccharides, which hold water and leave a smooth film.
Pinus Pinaster Bark Extract plant extract: Maritime pine bark extract, the source of the proanthocyanidins sold under the pine bark name. It is used as a plant antioxidant.
Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil emollient: Jojoba Oil is a liquid wax rather than a true oil, and its structure is close to human sebum, which is why it absorbs so readily. It is an emollient that leaves a soft, non-greasy finish.
Sodium Hyaluronate humectant: Sodium Hyaluronate is the salt of hyaluronic acid, and it is what most products labelled hyaluronic actually contain. The salt dissolves more readily and the molecule is smaller, so it sits in the outer layer of skin rather than only on top of it.
Hydrogenated Lecithin emulsifier: Hydrogenated Lecithin is lecithin with its unsaturated bonds filled in, which makes it far more stable. It emulsifies and is the standard shell for the liposomes that carry actives into the outer layer of skin.
Cetearyl Olivate emulsifier: Cetearyl Olivate is the water-loving half of the olive-derived emulsifier pair. With sorbitan olivate it builds emulsions whose lipid profile is close to skin's own.
Dimethiconol silicone: Dimethiconol is a high-molecular-weight silicone that leaves a longer-lasting smooth film than dimethicone. It is used for lasting slip and shine.
Sorbitan Olivate emulsifier: Sorbitan Olivate is an olive-derived emulsifier, the oil-loving half of the pair sold as Olivem. It holds oil into water and leaves a light, non-waxy feel.
Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate emulsifier: Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate is a sugar-derived emulsifier and solubiliser, mild enough to be a standard choice in Korean essences. It dissolves small amounts of oil into water without any tightening feel.
Arachidyl Alcohol fatty alcohol: Arachidyl Alcohol is a long-chain fatty alcohol used as a thickener and emollient, usually alongside behenyl alcohol.
Hydroxyacetophenone preservative booster: Hydroxyacetophenone is an antioxidant that also strengthens a preservative system, so a formula needs less traditional preservative. Korean formulas pair it with 1,2-hexanediol constantly.
Behenyl Alcohol fatty alcohol: Behenyl Alcohol is a long-chain fatty alcohol used to thicken and stabilise a cream. It gives a richer, more velvety body than cetyl alcohol.
Allantoin active: Allantoin is a comfrey-derived compound used to condition skin and soften the outer layer so it feels smoother. It is one of the standard additions to a formula built for easily irritated skin.
Ethylhexylglycerin preservative booster: Ethylhexylglycerin softens skin and boosts a preservative system, which is why it is nearly always sitting beside phenoxyethanol or 1,2-hexanediol. It also cuts down the odour bacteria produce, so it turns up in deodorising products.
Butylene Glycol humectant: Butylene Glycol is a small glycol that does two jobs at once: it holds water in the top layer of skin and it dissolves plant extracts and actives that plain water cannot. It also thins a formula, which is why watery Korean essences lean on it.
Arachidyl Glucoside emulsifier: Arachidyl Glucoside is a sugar-derived co-emulsifier, usually supplied with arachidyl and behenyl alcohols as a plant-based cream base.
Sucrose Stearate emulsifier: Sucrose Stearate is a sugar-based emulsifier chosen for a light finish in formulas built for reactive skin.
Disodium EDTA chelator: EDTA is a chelator: it locks up trace metal ions from water and packaging that would otherwise turn a formula cloudy, off-colour or rancid. It does nothing to skin and appears at a fraction of a percent.
Stearic Acid fatty acid: Stearic Acid is a saturated fatty acid from plant fats, and one of the three lipid classes skin's own barrier is built from. In a formula it thickens, stabilises the emulsion and can be turned into a soap-style cleanser by adding a base.
Alumina absorbent: Alumina is aluminium oxide, a hard white mineral powder. It is used to coat pigments so they disperse evenly and, ground fine, as a mild polishing grain.
Dextrin thickener: Dextrin is a starch fragment used to thicken and to give a formula a light, powdery finish. It is also a common carrier for powdered extracts.
Glyceryl Caprylate emulsifier: Glyceryl Caprylate is a mild emulsifier that also makes a formula less hospitable to microbes, so it is often part of a preservative-free system.
Methyl Diisopropyl Propionamide active: A synthetic cooling agent that gives the cool feeling of menthol without the mint smell. It is used where a formula wants the sensation but not the scent.
Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate ferment: Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate is a brewers yeast ferment filtered clear. It supplies amino acids, B vitamins and sugars, and it is one of the ferments the Korean essence category was built on.
Squalane emollient: Squalane is the stable, saturated version of squalene, a lipid human skin already makes. It is a light emollient that absorbs quickly, does not oxidise, and is one of the few oils widely considered safe for blemish-prone skin. Most cosmetic squalane is now from sugarcane or olive rather than shark.
Saccharomyces Ferment ferment: Saccharomyces Ferment is a brewer's yeast ferment. It supplies amino acids, sugars and B vitamins and is used as a conditioning, hydrating ferment.
Maltodextrin film former: Maltodextrin is a starch-derived sugar chain used to carry powdered extracts and to form a light film. It also gives a soft, smoothing feel.
Saccharide Hydrolysate humectant: Saccharide Hydrolysate is a mixture of plant sugars broken down for use as a humectant. It holds water in the outer layer.
Ceramide NP barrier lipid: Ceramide NP is the most used cosmetic ceramide, the same class of lipid that makes up roughly half the mortar between cells in the outer layer of skin. Added to a cream it slots into that structure, which is why ceramide formulas feel less leaky rather than merely greasy.
Asiaticoside active: Asiaticoside is one of the four active triterpenes isolated from centella and the most studied of them. Korean formulas name it separately when they want to show which fraction of the plant they standardised.
Madecassoside active: Madecassoside is the centella triterpene most associated with the look of redness, and the one brands lead with in cica products. It is water soluble and stable, so it appears in essences as readily as in creams.
Cholesterol barrier lipid: Cholesterol is the third of the three lipids the outer layer of skin is built from, with ceramides and fatty acids. Formulas that carry all three are following the ratio skin itself holds.
Palmitic Acid fatty acid: Palmitic Acid is a saturated fatty acid present in skin's own lipids. It thickens a formula, stabilises the emulsion and softens skin.
Saccharide Isomerate humectant: A plant-sugar complex whose structure resembles the sugars already bound to the skin surface, so it stays through washing. It is used as a long-acting humectant.
Hydrolyzed Lupine Protein protein: Hydrolyzed Lupine Protein comes from the lupin bean, which is unusually protein rich. Hydrolysed, it dissolves and works as a conditioning, water-holding protein.
Guaiazulene active: Guaiazulene is the deep blue compound distilled from chamomile and guaiac wood, and it is what colours a blue formula naturally. It is used for the look of reactive, reddened skin.
Glycine amino acid: Glycine is the smallest amino acid and one of the free amino acids skin holds to keep water in the outer layer. In a formula it is a humectant and a mild buffer.
Glutamic Acid amino acid: Glutamic Acid is an amino acid used as a humectant and a mild pH adjuster. It is one of the components of skin's natural moisturising factor.
Madecassic Acid active: Madecassic Acid is the fourth centella triterpene. A list that names all four is telling you the extract was standardised rather than simply pressed, which is the difference between a cica claim and a cica formula.
Asiatic Acid active: Asiatic Acid is the third of centella's four triterpenes and the aglycone form, meaning it has no attached sugar. It is oil soluble, so it turns up in cica creams and balms more than in watery layers.
Arginine amino acid: Arginine is an amino acid that does two jobs here: it holds water in the outer layer of skin, and it neutralises acidic gelling agents, which is why it often stands in for a synthetic pH adjuster.
Fragrance fragrance: Fragrance, or Parfum, is a single declaration standing for a whole scent blend, which can be dozens of materials. Regulators allow it as a trade secret, so a list showing only this word does not say what the scent is made of. It is the most common trigger named by people with reactive skin.

How it works

Cica Calming Down Cream is a face cream from Cell Fusion C. Cell Fusion C is a Korean dermo-cosmetic brand developed with a background in post-procedure and sensitive-skin care, with named ranges built around cooling, pH-balancing and brightening. On this jar's own ingredient list, Trehalose, Centella Asiatica Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Methylpropanediol are named directly, which is what the key-actives panel on this page is built from rather than from the product name alone. Trehalose is a sugar-derived humectant used to help a formula hold moisture, and it is why this face cream is positioned the way it is. Use it as the last step of a routine, to seal in the layers underneath, so it can hold the water and actives from earlier steps at the skin's surface. Cell Fusion C sells this as the Korean-market formula, the same one stocked on shelves in Korea rather than a version built for the US market.

How to use

Use it as the last step of a routine (or before a separate night cream at night), sealing in the layers underneath. AM and PM.

Worth knowing

New to this formula or to the brand: patch-test on the inner arm and wait a day before applying it to the face.
Discontinue use and rinse the area with water if redness, itching or irritation develops.

Complete the routine

This itemCell Fusion C Cica Calming Down Cream 50ml$45.00
The last step of the morning, over everything elseCell Fusion C Laser Sunscreen SPF50+/ PA++++ 50ml$30.00
The treatment step of this routineCell Fusion C Laser Rejuvenation Ampoule 30ml$27.50

Total for 3 items$102.50

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Cica Calming Down Cream, 50ml, Cell Fusion C's face cream with Trehalose and Centella Asiatica Extract.

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What professionals say

What skin-care professionals say about skin care, quoted from the medical sources linked beside each.

Centella can make your skin appear more hydrated, plumper and healthier.
Samantha Stein, PA-CDermatology physician assistant, Cleveland Clinic
Pretty much every step of a Korean skin care routine is going to have some component of hydration.
Alok Vij, MDDermatologist, Cleveland Clinic