I'm From Fig Enzyme Powder Cleanser

What is this product?

Reach for this I'm From cleanser if the goal is an enzyme powder wash rather than a cream or foam. It is a starch based powder, corn starch at position 1 with maltodextrin at 14, and it has no oil phase at all. Four enzymes sit in the list, papain at 11, lipase at 17, protease at 18 and ficin at 19, with an aspergillus ferment at 6 and a mandelic acid at 13 as the one AHA. Ficin is the fig derived protease, which is where the product name's two halves meet. The wash system is sulfate free: one coco isethionate and two acyl glutamates. Fragrance is declared at position 20, so this is not a fragrance free product. Three things to know before trusting anything here. Not one of the 20 entries carries a printed amount, so no claim about enzyme or acid strength can be made from the list. The list is single sourced from drugstore retail with no independent copy to check it against, which is weaker provenance than this project usually accepts. And the brand's own page for this product is gone, returning 404, so nothing the brand says about it could be read at all.

What makes it different?

The differentiator this record can point to is enzyme breadth: four separately declared enzymes rather than one, papain, lipase, protease and ficin, plus an aspergillus ferment, with a single AHA in mandelic acid. No category baseline for how many enzymes such products usually declare was measured here, so no comparison against one is made. Ficin is the notable entry, a fig derived protease that ties the list to the product name, and in the retail ingredient corpus it appears in only two records, both in this brand's fig line. The base is starch rather than oil or cream, with no fixed oil, plant butter, wax or fatty alcohol anywhere, and the surfactants are sulfate free. A hydrolysed hyaluronic acid sits unusually high for a powder wash at position 4. Set against all of this, the list prints no amounts at all, so none of the above can be sized.

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Each name links to what we know about that ingredient.

This brand publishes its ingredient list in Korean only. Names below are the matching INCI names from the Korean Cosmetic Association ingredient dictionary, except 3 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Zea Mays (Corn) Starch
• Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate
• Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• 무화과수
• Aspergillus Ferment
• Triticum Aestivum (Wheat) Seed Extract
• Ficus Carica (Fig) Fruit Extract
• 소듐미리스토일글루타메이트
• Allantoin
• Papain
• Glycerin
• Mandelic Acid
• Maltodextrin
• Water
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Lipase
• Protease
• 피신
• Fragrance

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

We could not place these in the list above: 소듐코코일이세티오네이트, 소듐라우로일글루타메이트, 소듐미리스토일글루타메이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 2 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them holds up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

Each line is quoted as the brand published it, and each one was read on its own against the ingredient list and the documents the brand publishes.

How we read these lines