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Facephalt Tightening Cream$50.58Centella Blemish Cream
A centella-water-first spot cream with zinc oxide and tea tree leaf oil for the marks blemishes leave behind.
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$49.97 per 100 ml
- Korean-market formula
- Ships from California or direct from Korea
- Korean barcode and batch code intact
- Suited to
- DryDehydratedBlemish-proneOily
- Helps with
- DehydrationBreakouts and congestionExcess oilVisible redness and reactivity
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How it works
A blemish that has settled tends to leave a mark long after the bump is gone, and a moisturizer alone does little for that spot. This cream opens with Centella Asiatica Leaf Water and places Zinc Oxide fifth, ahead of tea tree leaf oil. Dabbed onto a spot, that combination sits over the area rather than spreading across the face. Marks tend to look calmer with repeated, targeted dabbing rather than after one application. Use it as a spot step after moisturizer, morning and night, on the area itself.
How to use
- Use the Centella Blemish Cream after your moisturizer, morning and evening, on the spots and marks you want it on.
- A small dab per spot, tapped in rather than spread across the whole area.
- It goes on over moisturizer, and in the morning sunscreen still goes over the top of it.
- Twice a day on the areas that want it. Do not use it as a full-face cream; it is built for spots rather than for the whole surface.
COSRX Centella Blemish Cream
What is the Centella Blemish Cream meant to do?
Centella Asiatica Leaf Water opens the list, and Zinc Oxide sits fifth, ahead of tea tree leaf oil and scutellaria root extract further down. That combination describes a spot-focused cream built to sit over blemishes and the marks they leave, rather than a full-face treatment serum. Viola tricolor extract in the supporting cast adds a further calming ingredient to the same formula.
Is this cream suitable for oily, blemish-prone skin?
No fragrance, denatured alcohol, paraben, sulfate surfactant, or mineral oil appears anywhere on the list. Dimethicone does appear, so this is not a silicone-free formula, which is worth knowing if silicone specifically is what someone is avoiding. Otherwise the profile suits oily and blemish-prone skin looking for a dedicated spot cream rather than an all-over moisturizer.
How quickly does this cream visibly settle a spot?
Zinc oxide and zinc PCA both sit early to mid list and are chosen for how they read on the skin's surface over repeated dabbing rather than a single application. Lingering marks and active spots tend to look calmer after several days of consistent, targeted use, not immediately after one dab. Applying it only occasionally slows down whatever visible change the routine can produce.
Can I use this alongside a pore-focused or hydrating serum?
This list does not include niacinamide, so it is built to sit on top of a routine rather than replace a serum step. Apply it after a moisturizer, directly on spots and marks, which leaves the earlier hydrating or treatment steps underneath untouched. Whether a specific serum pairs well is a question for that serum's own ingredient list, not this one.
How can I confirm this is the authentic Korean-market Centella Blemish Cream?
The box carries its original Korean-market barcode, 8809416470368, unaltered from the Korea release. COSRX handles its own verification instead of leaving it to a reseller: the batch number and expiration date printed on your unit can be checked against COSRX's verification page on cosrx.com. Reading those numbers straight off the box in your hand, rather than trusting a listing photo, is the real test.
Not on the ingredient list below: fragrance or parfum, denatured or SD alcohol, parabens, sulfate surfactants, mineral oil or petrolatum and added color.
Full INCI (20): Centella Asiatica Leaf Water, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Zinc Oxide, Dimethicone, Betaine, 1,2-Hexanediol, Viola Tricolor Extract, Elaeis Guineensis(Palm) oil, Elaeis Guineensis(Palm) Kernel Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Centella Asiatica Extract, Zinc PCA, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Xanthan Gum, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil, Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract
Ingredient list read from cosrx.com on 18 August 2026.
19 of 20 explained
- Centella Asiatica Leaf Water plant extract
- Centella Asiatica Leaf Water is the distilled water of the centella leaf, used in place of plain water as a formula base. It is far more dilute than the extract, so it sets the base rather than supplying the actives.
- 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.
- 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.
- Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil emollient
- Sunflower Seed Oil is high in linoleic acid, the fatty acid dry and blemish-prone skin is often short of. It is a light, non-fragrant emollient and one of the better tolerated plant oils.
- Dimethicone silicone
- Dimethicone is the most used cosmetic silicone. It forms a breathable film that smooths the surface, slows water leaving skin, and gives the slip that makes a primer or cream feel silky. It is inert and does not penetrate.
- Betaine humectant
- Betaine is a sugar-beet-derived humectant that cells use to hold water. In a formula it hydrates and takes the edge off cleansers and acids, which is why it often appears alongside them.
- 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.
- Viola Tricolor Extract plant extract
- Heartsease extract, the wild pansy. It carries mucilage and flavonoids, so it hydrates and is used for the look of reddened skin.
- Elaeis Guineensis(Palm) oil emollient
- Palm Oil is a rich emollient high in palmitic and oleic acids. In skincare it is more often a source material for esters and emulsifiers than an ingredient on its own.
- Elaeis Guineensis(Palm) Kernel Oil emollient
- Palm kernel oil, high in lauric acid and solid at room temperature. It gives balms and cleansing bases their body.
- Cetearyl Alcohol fatty alcohol
- Cetearyl Alcohol is a waxy solid, not the drying kind of alcohol. It is a blend of cetyl and stearyl alcohols used to thicken a cream and keep oil and water from separating, and it softens skin as it does so.
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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.
- Zinc PCA active
- Zinc PCA pairs zinc with the humectant PCA. It is used in oily and blemish-prone formulas for the look of shine and visible pores, and it hydrates at the same time.
- Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer thickener
- This is the thickener behind most gel-cream textures. It builds a soft, bouncy gel that collapses to a light fluid as it is rubbed in.
- Xanthan Gum thickener
- Xanthan Gum is a polysaccharide made by fermenting sugar. It thickens a watery formula into a gel and holds the whole thing in suspension so nothing separates. Too much of it and a serum turns stringy, which is why it appears in fractions of a percent.
- Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil fragrance component
- Tea Tree Leaf Oil is an essential oil from an Australian shrub, carrying terpinen-4-ol. Korean formulas use it in products aimed at blemish-prone skin; it is potent, aromatic, and one of the essential oils most likely to bother reactive skin.
- Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract plant extract
- Scutellaria Baicalensis is Chinese skullcap. Its root extract carries baicalin, a well studied plant antioxidant, and it is used for the look of redness.
- Market
- Korean market, the version sold in Korea
- EAN (barcode)
- 8809416470368
- Made in
- Republic of Korea
- Volume
- 30ml
- Category
- Moisturizer
- Actives
- Centella Asiatica, Tea Tree, Zinc PCA
- Ships from
- California or Korea
Orders ship from California or direct from Korea with tracked delivery to your door, and both routes carry the same Korean-market release. Shipping is free on orders of $100 or more. Returns are accepted for 30 days, by mail.
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Where this unit came from
- 1Seoul
Bought as Korean-market stock - 2Barcode
Listed against the Korean barcode on its box - 3California or Korea
Ships to you from either, as the same Korean-market release
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Key benefits
- Centella appears twice, as leaf water first on the list and again as extract
- Zinc oxide sits fifth to visibly settle and dry down spots
- Zinc PCA and tea tree leaf oil suit congestion-prone skin
- Viola tricolor and scutellaria root extracts round out the calming cast
Inside the formula
Inside the formula
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Centella blemish cream, 30 ml, with Zinc Oxide and Tea Tree Leaf Oil.
Verify your unit when it arrives
Verify your unit when it arrives
Korean-market stock with the original barcode and batch code intact, exactly as it left Korea.
COSRX verifies units itself. Find the verification page on cosrx.com and enter the batch number and expiration date printed on your unit. Read them off the package rather than from us, which is the point.
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On the unit itself
- The Korean-market barcode, unaltered from the retail package.
- The manufacturer’s batch code, exactly as the maker printed it.
정품Genuine article, Korean-market stock
What professionals say
What professionals say
What skin-care professionals say about skin care, quoted from the medical sources linked beside each.
Your skin barrier is basically your outer layer of the skin.
Melissa Piliang, MDDermatologist, Cleveland Clinic Pretty much every step of a Korean skin care routine is going to have some component of hydration.
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