Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment On your shelf ✓
€0.28 an application · about 35 usesOur review, in one look
Glycerin is the reason to consider this balm, with Pro-vitamin B5 behind it.
The case for it
- Glycerin, strong evidence for hydration
- Pro-vitamin B5, strong evidence for the barrier
- No fragrance, alcohol, silicones or parabens
Mind this
- Morning or evening, whichever suits your routine
- Add it on its own for a week or two, so you know what your skin is answering to
Maya's readEucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment is a balm built around Glycerin, Mineral Oil and Pro-vitamin B5. It leans strongest on hydration, barrier repair. Best suited to dry, dehydrated and very dry skin. Nothing in it we'd flag for most people.
Cost per use: what a day of it costs
€0.28 an applicationabout 35 uses from 45 ml
measured: 2.5 fingertip units for face and neck, about 1.25 g; from €10 as read in September 2026 and a 45 ml pack.
how this is counted
About €0.28 an application, about 35 uses from 45 ml.
- Long & Finlay 1991, Clin Exp Dermatol: face and neck 2.5 fingertip units (PMID 1806320, abstract read)
- Long, Finlay & Averill 1992, Arch Dermatol: 4 hand areas = 2 FTU = 1 g (PMID 1497374)
- Finlay, Edwards & Harding 1989, Lancet: the fingertip unit defined (PMID 2567912, a letter)
- density taken as 1 g per ml: assumed, as on the sunscreen calculator
- Measured or assumed: the rule, and the dose table
Skip it if you have oily, congestion-prone skin and want something light: this is a rich, occlusive balm.
Fragrance, texture and film: what the label says of its feel
- fragrance-free by the label: no parfum, none of the 26
- a balm in a tube
- leaves a film: mineral oil
- no silicone on the label
Facts off the label and the pack only. How it feels on a face is not something this page will say without having used it.
The formula, in order
every ingredient at its place on the label
Coloured by the job each one does here.
7 ingredients. Widths show the ORDER on the label and nothing else: the label never discloses amounts, so we never draw them.
- Actives & signals
- Not in our library yet
- fed M. furfur only
- No fragrance anywhere on the label
Fungal acne: what on this label feeds the yeast (Malassezia)
the yeast: Malassezia furfur, globosa, restricta
1 ingredient on this label fed Malassezia in culture (mineral oil); mineral oil: M. furfur only, not the folliculitis species.
Each result is a pure ingredient on a lab dish, never this product on skin.
where this comes from
- mineral oilM. furfur only
This species is able to grow in the presence of paraffin liquidum and squalene, but its growth is significantly slower than on other growth media.
DOI 10.3390/cosmetics6030045
What does it do? What its ingredients deliver
How it feels A thick, occlusive balm: dab it on rather than spread it. It seals moisture in, and is best kept to dry patches, not a whole-face daytime layer. (estimated from the formula)
Key ingredients: what in it does the work
Classic humectant with strong evidence for improving skin hydration and supporting barrier when combined with emollients.
Glycerin: This one works on contact: there is nothing to wait for.
how it was measured
Measured on stratum corneum hydration, corneometer capacitance after a single application; on contact, by mechanism.
Highly purified mineral oil that forms an occlusive layer to reduce water loss and soften very dry skin.
Humectant and soothing ingredient that helps calm irritation and supports barrier repair and recovery.
Anti-inflammatory terpene that reduces redness and irritation and helps calm inflamed or reactive skin with a good topical safety profile.
What only this label says
Mineral Oil is the base: no water in this formula, one of 12 in our catalogue.
why
The first ingredient on the label, and no Aqua, Water or Eau anywhere in the list; 12 of 162 labels in the catalogue list no water.
≈ €0.22/ml, above the median balm in our catalogue (€0.13/ml).
why
~€10 for 45 ml, checked September 2026; the median of the 3 balms in the catalogue with a known size.
Shares 3 of its 4 known actives with NIVEA Creme: the closest formula we have.
why
Actives our base knows on both labels: Glycerin, Mineral Oil and Pro-vitamin B5.
4 of 7 ingredients are emollients and emulsifiers: a cream's list: texture and slip before actives.
why
Roles read from the ingredient names, the same table the decoded list below uses; 4 of 7 fall in this group.
All 4 actives carry strong evidence in our base.
why
evidence_level in our base, per row, as printed on each glossary page.
Glycerin is the 6th of 7 ingredients: well down the list.
why
Position 6 of 7 on the label as printed; compared with the 125 other labels in the catalogue that carry a polyol.
Fragrance allergens: the ones this label names
This label names none of the 26 EU fragrance allergens. What the 26 are →
How to use it, and when
Morning and/or night, after your thinner water-based steps and before heavier creams.
Where in your skin it works
All 3 of its placed actives act on or in the dead surface layer, none below it: the same cross-section as our 500 dalton page, with this formula's actives on the layer each one works on. Depth is the anatomy's, never an ingredient's.
Skin surface
The stratum corneum
- Glycerinderived from what it is
- Mineral Oilderived from what it is
- Pro-vitamin B5derived from what it is
3 of this product's actives have a layer we can defend. 1 did not, so it is not on the diagram: no source and no honest derivation means no dot.
Full ingredients list, decoded
4 of these 7 ingredients are in our library, linked and named for what each one does, with anything that can irritate or clog flagged; the 3 we cannot place are left plain, nothing is hidden. Every ingredient on the label, in the order it appears (highest amount first).
All 7 ingredients, decoded
- Paraffinum LiquidumEmollient
- Cera MicrocristallinaOcclusive (wax)
- CeresinOcclusive (wax)
- Lanolin AlcoholEmollient (lanolin)
- PanthenolHumectant
- GlycerinHumectant
- BisabololSoothing
Copy the raw INCI list
Paraffinum Liquidum, Cera Microcristallina, Ceresin, Lanolin Alcohol, Panthenol, Glycerin, Bisabolol
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Common questions
Why is mineral oil the base of Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment instead of water?
Mineral Oil is the base: no water in this formula, one of 12 in our catalogue. With no water phase, the first ingredient is the whole vehicle, and the actives are carried in it.
Is Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment expensive per ml?
≈ €0.22/ml, above the median balm in our catalogue (€0.13/ml). A price per millilitre says nothing about what the formula does; it only tells you how the bottle compares with the others of its kind we have priced.
How high up the list is the glycerin in Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment?
Glycerin is the 6th of 7 ingredients: well down the list. Position is the only amount the law makes a brand declare, so 6th of 7 is the one number on this label a reader can check.
Is Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment good for dry skin?
By our read of the formula, it suits dry, dehydrated, very dry skin. Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment is a balm built around Glycerin, Mineral Oil and Pro-vitamin B5. It leans strongest on hydration, barrier repair. Best suited to dry, dehydrated and very dry skin. Nothing in it we'd flag for most people.
How do you use Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment?
Morning and/or night, after your thinner water-based steps and before heavier creams.
What are the key ingredients in Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment?
The actives that do the work are Glycerin, Mineral Oil, Pro-vitamin B5, Bisabolol. The rest of the list is texture, preservatives and emulsifiers that hold the formula together.
Does Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment contain fragrance?
No. By our reading of the ingredient list it is fragrance-free, which is a plus for sensitive or reactive skin.
What the 3D scene shows
The scene shows Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment beside a cross-section of skin, with 2 of its ingredients drawn at the layer each one acts on and at one shared molecular scale: Glycerin and Pro-vitamin B5 in the stratum corneum, the dead outer layer where most skincare works. Depths come from the same sourced layer data as the rest of this site, and any ingredient whose layer is not established is left out rather than guessed.
