Amlactin KP Bumps Be Gone Cream: Ingredients, Ratings and Price Analysis

Ingredient & price dossier  /  U.S. beauty and personal careSnapshot 2026-11-02

A 15% lactic acid body cream sold as a keratosis pilaris treatment, read against its own ingredient declaration, its 5,558-rating profile and a price record that no history channel would surrender.

1. 01Product information
2. 02Rating and customer voice
3. 03Ingredients
4. 04Price and history
5. 05Product gallery
6. 06Data notes

01Product information

Product name	Amlactin KP Bumps Be Gone Body Cream, 15% Lactic Acid, 3 oz
Brand	Amlactin
ASIN	B09X9GJ57N
Category path	Beauty & Personal Care > Skin Care > Body > Moisturizers > Creams
Size / format	3 oz (85 g) tube
Marketplace	Amazon US, delivery ZIP 10001, native USD
Snapshot date	2026-11-02

Amlactin's position in the body-care aisle rests on one fact and one claim. The fact is dose: 15% lactic acid is a treatment-strength concentration, not a token exfoliant, and it is what separates this tube from the lactic acid lotions sold at half the price per ounce. The claim is that AmLactin is the number-one dermatologist-recommended moisturiser brand containing lactic acid, which is a brand-level statement rather than a statement about this pack.

The formula is short by body-cream standards - 14 ingredients - and it is built the way a pharmacy treatment is built rather than the way a prestige cream is built: water, an AHA salt, humectants, an oil phase, four emulsifiers, a preservative and a chelator. There is no fragrance, no botanical blend, no peptide story. That shortness is the most useful thing about it, because every ingredient can be accounted for and nothing hides in a proprietary complex.

How the listing positions it

Specification sheet

Attribute	Value
Item volume	3 fluid ounces (85 g)
Dimensions	5.16 x 1.73 x 1.61 inches
Item form	Cream
Age range	Adult
Manufacturer	Advantice Health
UPC	316864000637
Best Sellers Rank	#2,572 in Beauty & Personal Care; #26 in Body Creams; #64 in Body Lotions
Availability	In stock, sold and shipped by the marketplace itself
Directions on pack	Apply twice daily, or as directed by a physician

02Rating and customer voice

The star distribution and the language buyers use to justify it are two different kinds of evidence. The first is arithmetic and can be read off a chart. The second is qualitative and only carries weight where enough people repeat it. Neither is pushed past what the product page actually published.

Shape of the rating

Band	Share of ratings	Implied count	Reading
5 star	68%	3,779	delighted, repeat-purchase intent
4 star	14%	778	satisfied, small reservations
3 star	9%	500	mixed, the swing group
2 star	4%	222	disappointed on a stated promise
1 star	5%	278	failed outright for this buyer

Five-star ratings outnumber one-star ratings by 13.6 to 1. A ratio this wide means the modal buyer is not merely tolerant of the formula, they are enthusiastic about it; the one-star tail still matters because it usually names a single mechanism that failed.

Average rating	4.3 / 5
Total ratings	5,558
Community database rating	2.0 / 5 · 1 reviews

What buyers say, in aggregate

Aspect-level sentiment

Aspect	Mentions	Positive	Negative	Positive share
effectiveness	557	402	155	72%
fragrance	272	74	198	27%
skin benefits	237	177	60	75%
texture	148	115	33	78%
consistency	123	42	81	34%
value for money	112	37	75	33%
greasiness	80	23	57	29%
longevity	61	30	31	49%

Read mentions and share together. A 95% positive share on four mentions is an anecdote; a 70% share on two hundred mentions is a pattern.

Customer voice

Verbatim review text did not render on the captured product page, so no quotation appears here. The aggregate summary and the aspect table above are the published substitutes. Nothing has been written on a reviewer's behalf, and no sample quotation has been reconstructed from memory.

03Ingredients

14 declared ingredients were merged into one roster and graded on three axes: comedogenic risk, irritation risk and overall safety. On all three, a lower number is safer. The level assigned to an ingredient is the highest of its three grades, so a single severe flag is never averaged away by two benign ones. Where the two reference databases disagree, the higher figure is kept and the spread is disclosed in the notes.

What’s inside

A dashed tag is a failed claim, not a marketing variant: the formula does not meet that standard. A solid ink tag means the formula meets it on the declared list.

Count by level

Level	What it means	Count	Share	Representative members
0	no known comedogenic or irritant activity	3	21.4%	Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Petrolatum
2	mild watch item, patch test if reactive	3	21.4%	Paraffinum Liquidum, Cetearyl Alcohol, Steareth-2
3	caution band, relevant for acne-prone skin	1	7.1%	Stearic Acid
n/r	not graded by either database	7	50.0%	Water, Ammonium Lactate, Polysorbate 60, Steareth-21, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Benzoate +1 more

“Not graded” is missing data, not a clean record. Commodity vehicles and botanical blends routinely carry no grade in either database, and an absent grade must never be read as a zero.

Functional families

The family split is taken from the first stated function of each ingredient. It shows what the formula is mostly made of, which is usually a better guide to how it feels than the front-of-pack claim list.

Ingredients that carry a flag

#	Ingredient	Function	Comedogenic	Irritancy	Why it is listed
8	Stearic Acid	Cleansing, emulsifying	2-3	0	comedogenic grade 2-3

A grade describes the ingredient in isolation, not this product. Position in the list matters: a flagged ingredient at the end of a long declaration is present at a far lower concentration than one near the front.

Declared benefits and the size of the supporting cast

Benefit	Ingredients	Mechanism as stated
Hydrating	4 ingredients	Glycerin, propylene glycol, petrolatum and stearic acid draw in or hold water; this is the claim the four-ingredient cast actually supports.
Scar healing	1 ingredient	Glycerin only. A single-ingredient claim rather than a formula-level one.
Barrier repair	1 ingredient	Glycerin only, on the same basis.

Class-level concerns

Concern	What it means
May worsen oily skin	Four ingredients carry the flag: paraffinum liquidum, petrolatum, cetearyl alcohol and stearic acid. The oil phase is what makes the cream rich, and it is the same phase the greasiness complaints describe.
May trigger acne	One pore-clogger flag: cetearyl alcohol at comedogenic 2, irritancy 1. A flag is not a certainty - concentration and the rest of the formula decide.
May worsen eczema	Propylene glycol. The single most common contact-irritant among the humectants, and worth a patch test on broken skin.
May worsen rosacea	Propylene glycol again, by the same mechanism.
May worsen keratosis pilaris	The fatty alcohol and fatty-acid load can congest the follicle the AHA is meant to clear. Whether the exfoliant outruns the congestion is a per-person outcome, which is consistent with the 9 percent one- and two-star share.

These are class-level warnings: the formula contains ingredients capable of the stated effect. They are not a prediction about any individual user, and a patch test on the inner forearm remains the only cheap way to resolve them.

Key ingredient groups

• AHA — 1 ingredient(s). Ammonium lactate. The active, and the reason this is a treatment rather than a moisturiser. Dissolves the keratin plug over each follicle; the pack states 15%.
• Humectants — 2 ingredient(s). Glycerin and propylene glycol. Both draw water into the stratum corneum, and both appear in the sensitivity complaints.
• Occlusives and emollients — 4 ingredient(s). Paraffinum liquidum, petrolatum, cetearyl alcohol, stearic acid. The oil phase that makes the cream rich and, at this texture, slow to absorb.
• Emulsifiers — 4 ingredient(s). Polysorbate 60, steareth-21, steareth-2, xanthan gum. Hold the phases together and give the cream its body; no functional claim rests on them.
• Preservative and chelator — 2 ingredient(s). Sodium benzoate and disodium EDTA. Shelf life and formula stability.

Declaration, in order

Order follows the label. Ingredients below roughly the one-percent mark may be listed in any order, so the tail of this list carries position information that is weaker than it looks.

Complete graded roster

#	INCI name	Function	Comedo	Irrit	Safety	Level
1	Water	Skin conditioning, solvent	EM	EM	EM	—
2	Ammonium Lactate	Buffering, humectant	EM	EM	EM	—
3	Glycerin	Humectant, skin conditioning	0	0	0	0
4	Propylene Glycol	Humectant, solvent	0	0	0	0
5	Paraffinum Liquidum	Emollient, solvent	0-2	0	EM	2
6	Petrolatum	Emollient, occlusive	0	EM	EM	0
7	Cetearyl Alcohol	Emollient, emulsifying	2	1	EM	2
8	Stearic Acid	Cleansing, emulsifying	2-3	0	EM	3
9	Polysorbate 60	Emulsifying, surfactant	EM	EM	EM	—
10	Steareth-21	Cleansing, emulsifying	EM	EM	EM	—
11	Steareth-2	Emulsifying	2	2	EM	2
12	Xanthan Gum	Emulsifying, thickener	EM	EM	EM	—
13	Sodium Benzoate	Preservative	EM	EM	EM	—
14	Disodium EDTA	Chelating	EM	EM	EM	—

04Price and history

Everything below is native USD against a U.S. delivery address. No currency has been converted and no value has been estimated. The history block covers the whole monitoring record rather than a rolling window, so a low from two years ago still counts.

Price history by channel

Price type	Lowest ever	Highest ever	Current	Average
No channel returned a record	No lowest, highest, current or average figure was published to this capture for any price type, so none has been filled in, back-filled or estimated.
Amazon	No record for this channel
3rd Party New	No record for this channel
3rd Party Used	No record for this channel

No historical price channel answered for this product on the capture date, so the table above carries no history. The comparison below therefore uses the price points that the live listing itself published, each with its own reading.

The published price ladder, compared

Price point	USD	Basis	Vs one-time price
One-time price	$15.99	live listing, 2026-11-02	+0.0%
Subscribe & Save	$13.59	printed 15 percent subscription discount	-15.0%

These are simultaneous quotes from one page, not a time series. The gap between the list anchor and the one-time price is the printed discount; the gap to the subscription price is what the retailer pays for a repeat commitment.

05Product gallery

Listing imagery reproduced in the order it appears on the product page, three plates to a row.

06Data notes

• Verbatim review text did not render on the captured product page and the review view itself is behind a sign-in wall, so no quotation appears in this report. The aggregate 'Customers say' summary and the eight-aspect table are the published substitutes.
• No buyer photograph was retrievable: the listing exposed zero review-image tiles. The three plates in the gallery are listing imagery, labelled as such, and no stock photograph has been presented in place of a buyer photo.
• The second ingredient-grading database returned a browser-verification interstitial on two direct attempts and through a text proxy, so no cross-check was possible. Every grade here therefore comes from one channel and is disclosed as single-source.
• No public price-history channel returned a record for this ASIN on 2026-11-02, so the price analysis rests on one dated observation of the live listing. The all-time low, high, average and spread are absent rather than zero, and no figure has been back-filled.
• Seven of the fourteen ingredients carry no numeric comedogenic or irritancy grade; the main analysis reports them as not graded rather than folding them into the averaged bands.
• The community database rating of 2.0 rests on a single review and is reported for completeness only; it is not comparable to the 5,558 Amazon ratings.
• One retail variant of the same product lists citric acid and sodium hydroxide as pH adjusters. Those two are not in the 14-ingredient declaration used here, so the formula on the shelf may differ from the formula analysed.
• Ratings, prices and sales ranks move between captures. Every figure here describes the snapshot date at the top of the page and nothing else.
• Ingredient grades are community-database aggregates used as a reference, not a regulatory or dermatological verdict. Formulas are reformulated without notice and the carton is the authoritative text.
• No reviewer name, handle, profile link or other identifier appears anywhere in this report.