What is this cream for?

It closes a routine with comfort as the aim rather than working on a mark or a texture. That makes it the step to keep constant while you introduce or pause other products.

Can I use it when my skin is irritated?

It is a reasonable step on a night when your skin feels reactive, and the more useful move is pausing whatever caused it. Keep the routine to cleanser, toner and this for a few days.

Will it work under makeup?

Yes, at a thin layer. Give it a minute or two to settle before foundation and press the base on rather than dragging it. A thick layer under makeup is what makes a base move.

Is it enough for very dry skin?

In mild weather usually, though a cold dry winter often calls for something richer at night. Using this in the morning and a heavier cream before bed is a normal seasonal split.

How long does 50ml last?

About two months at twice daily use on the face and neck. Pressing a small amount onto damp skin covers more ground than rubbing a scoop into dry skin. Keep the lid closed so the texture stays consistent to the end.

Genabelle

Cabbage 74 Calming Cream 50ml

Name: Genabelle Cabbage 74 Calming Cream 50ml
Brand: Genabelle
SKU: 6184350035
Price: 32.5 USD
Availability: InStock

A calming cream in a 50ml jar, made for skin that looks flushed and feels reactive and wants a quiet closing step.

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$32.50

50 ml

$65.00 per 100 ml

Korean-market formula
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Suited to: Sensitive skinDry skinNormal skinCombination skin

Helps with: Skin that looks flushedA reactive feeling faceA quiet closing step

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How it works

Cabbage 74 Calming Cream is Genabelle's cream, formulated to work as a richer, more occlusive-leaning moisturizer step that locks in everything applied underneath. Brassica Oleracea Capitata (Cabbage) Leaf Extract sits right at the top of the ingredient list, just after the base, a cabbage leaf extract, the ingredient this formula is named for, valued for its calming, antioxidant-rich profile. Sodium Hyaluronate sits mid list, a smaller-molecule hyaluronic-acid salt that draws water into the surface layers of skin. Centella Asiatica Extract sits further down the list, in a supporting role, a cica extract associated with calming redness and supporting a stressed barrier. Genabelle's Cabbage 74 line is built around cabbage leaf extract at a stated concentration for its calming, antioxidant profile.

Key benefits

Brassica Oleracea Capitata (Cabbage) Leaf Extract, a cabbage leaf extract, the ingredient this formula is named for, valued for its calming, antioxidant-rich profile
Sodium Hyaluronate, a smaller-molecule hyaluronic-acid salt that draws water into the surface layers of skin
Centella Asiatica Extract, a cica extract associated with calming redness and supporting a stressed barrier

Inside the formula

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Brassica Oleracea Capitata (Cabbage) Leaf Extract plant extract: Cabbage leaf extract. The leaf carries sulphur compounds, vitamin C and vitamin K, and the extract is used as a conditioning antioxidant botanical.
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.
Propanediol humectant: Propanediol is a plant-derived glycol used in place of propylene glycol. It hydrates, carries actives into solution, and gives a lighter, less sticky slip than glycerin at the same strength.
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.
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.
Isododecane solvent: Isododecane is a light, volatile hydrocarbon. It carries pigments and film formers on smoothly and then evaporates, leaving the film behind and nothing oily.
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride is the light fraction of coconut oil, with the heavy parts removed. It is the workhorse emollient of modern formulas: it softens skin, dissolves oil-soluble actives and absorbs without the greasy weight of a whole plant oil.
C14-22 Alcohols fatty alcohol: C14-22 Alcohols is a declaration for a mixture of long-chain fatty alcohols. They thicken a cream and hold the emulsion together.
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.
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.
Tromethamine pH adjuster: Tromethamine neutralises acidic thickeners such as carbomer so they gel, and holds a formula near skin-friendly pH. It is used at a fraction of a percent.
Carbomer thickener: Carbomer is a synthetic polymer that only gels once a base neutralises it, which is why arginine or tromethamine sits nearby on the list. It gives the clear, non-stringy gel texture a xanthan formula cannot reach.

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Sea Water mineral: Sea Water is filtered and desalinated seawater used in place of plain water. It carries magnesium, calcium and potassium, so it brings the mineral balance of the base closer to skin's own.
C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside emulsifier: C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside is a sugar-derived emulsifier used in mild, plant-based cream bases.
Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 thickener: Polyacrylate Crosspolymer-6 is a thickener chosen for a notably fresh, bouncy gel feel that breaks down to water on the skin.
Gardenia Florida Fruit Extract plant extract: Gardenia Fruit Extract is the traditional East Asian yellow dye plant. In skincare it is used as an antioxidant extract, and it can tint a formula.
Isopentyldiol solvent: Isopentyldiol is a glycol used as a light solvent and humectant. It thins a formula, keeps extracts dissolved and leaves a dry finish.
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.
Caprylyl Glycol preservative booster: Caprylyl Glycol is a glycol that conditions skin and, more importantly, strengthens a preservative system so less of the traditional preservative is needed. It appears in most modern formulas built without parabens.
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.
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.
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.
Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate emulsifier: Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate is a mild sugar-derived emulsifier that holds oil into water and thickens slightly.
Cellulose absorbent: Cellulose is plant fibre. In a formula it thickens, absorbs oil and, in a sheet mask, is often the fabric itself.
Sodium Surfactin surfactant: A biosurfactant produced by Bacillus fermentation. It lowers surface tension at very low concentrations, so a formula needs very little of it.
t-Butyl Alcohol solvent: t-Butyl Alcohol is the bittering agent added to cosmetic ethanol so it cannot be drunk. It appears in tiny amounts alongside alcohol denat. and does no formulation work of its own.
Glucose humectant: Glucose is a simple sugar used as a humectant and as food for the ferment ingredients in the same formula. It hydrates mildly and adds a soft slip.
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.
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.
Houttuynia Cordata Extract plant extract: Houttuynia Cordata is heartleaf, and it is one of the two or three anchor plants of Korean calming skincare. Its extract carries quercitrin and other flavonoids and is used for the look of redness and blemish-prone skin.
Bambusa Vulgaris Extract plant extract: Bamboo extract. Bamboo concentrates silica as it grows, so the extract is used as a hydrating, mineral-bearing ingredient.
Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract plant extract: Artemisia Princeps is Korean mugwort, one of the country's oldest skincare and bathing plants. Its leaf extract is used for the look of reddened, reactive skin, and it is the ingredient behind the mugwort category.
Chlorella Vulgaris Extract plant extract: Chlorella Vulgaris is a freshwater green algae. Its extract carries proteins, chlorophyll and amino acids and is used as a conditioning ingredient.
Potassium Hyaluronate humectant: Potassium Hyaluronate is another salt of hyaluronic acid, used for the same reason as the sodium form: it dissolves easily and holds a large amount of water in the outer layer of skin.
Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer humectant: Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer is hyaluronic acid linked into a mesh. It holds water in a soft gel on the surface rather than sinking in, and it releases that water slowly through the day.
Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate humectant: Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate carries a positive charge, and skin carries a slight negative one, so it is attracted to the surface and stays through rinsing. It is the hyaluronic used where a formula gets washed off.
Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid humectant: Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid is hyaluronic acid cut into much shorter fragments. The smaller the fragment, the further into the outer layer it can settle, which is why serums stack several sizes together instead of using one.
Hyaluronic Acid humectant: Hyaluronic Acid is a sugar chain the body already makes, and one gram of it can hold several litres of water. In a formula it is a humectant that pulls water to the surface of skin and holds it in a film, which is what makes skin look plumper while it is there.
Pentylene Glycol humectant: Pentylene Glycol hydrates and, like the other longer-chain glycols, makes a formula less hospitable to microbes so the preservative system can be lighter. It also improves how evenly a product spreads.
Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate humectant: Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate is hyaluronic acid modified to be part oil-loving, so it clings to skin instead of rinsing away. Formulators call it the one that stays put.

How to use

Apply it last among your leave-on steps, once your toner and any serum have gone on.
Press a small amount over slightly damp skin with flat hands rather than massaging it in for long.
Keep this step constant while you change other products, so you can tell what caused what.
Do not add a new active on a night your skin already looks flushed, and let the closing step work first.

Worth knowing

This is a comfort step rather than a treatment step, so keep your actives in their own slot.
Patch test along the jaw for a few days first, since reactive skin deserves a slow introduction.

Complete the routine

This itemGenabelle Cabbage 74 Calming Cream 50ml$32.50
The treatment step of this routineGenabelle PDRN Vita Toning Ampoule 30ml$32.50
Seal the routine in as the last stepGenabelle Melacare Intensive Cream 50ml$62.50

Total for 3 items$127.50

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Your skin barrier is basically your outer layer of the skin.
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