Appa Soap
Appa Soap Deep Clean
Ingredient analysis and how the ad lines read
Read on 2026-09-10
What is this product?
Appa Soap's Deep Clean bar is a plain saponified soap, built on sodium laurate, myristate, palmitate and stearate, with five undisclosed-amount botanical extras (centella, aloe, grapefruit seed, indigo leaf, tocopherol) folded in, and almost nothing else about it, a pH figure, a functional-cosmetic notice, a manufacturer name, could be confirmed anywhere in the material found for it.
What makes it different?
Indigo leaf powder is an unusual addition for a bar soap and sits alongside the four soap-salt bases with no fragrance entry and no exfoliating-acid entry anywhere in the 19-item list. The product is sold under a listing name that adds an acne-soap framing, but no dedicated anti-acne active such as salicylic acid appears on the label to back that framing.
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 6 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.
Key ingredient
- Glycerin
- Water
- Sodium Laurate
- 소듐미리스테이트
- Sodium Palmitate
- Sodium Stearate
- Sucrose
- Sorbitol
- 효모/게르마늄발효물
- Lauryl Glucoside
- 소듐코코일애플아미노산
- Sodium Hyaluronate
- 인디고잎가루
- 알로에베라추출물
- Brassica Oleracea Italica (Broccoli) Extract
- Phaseolus Radiatus Seed Powder
- Centella Asiatica Extract
- 자몽씨추출물
- Tocopherol
Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.
Did the ad claims hold up?
We checked the one line this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. One of them looks likely, though none are proven outright.
Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.
likely, not proven1
- Deep Clean
Korean original
딥클린
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.