Noily Blackhead Slime Enzyme Cleanser

What is this product?

Noily Blackhead Slime Enzyme Cleanser is a 40 g enzyme cleansing powder that is mixed with water into a stretchy paste and massaged in for about a minute. Its 20 entry Korean statutory list leads with kaolin, cleans with mild amino acid and isethionate surfactants, and adds volcanic ash, silica, salicylic acid (BHA) and the enzyme papain, with no fragrance entry and no essential oil. A named patch test on 32 women reports a mean reaction of 0.00; the pore, blackhead and sunscreen removal percentages come from an unnamed single use test with no panel details printed. Suited to oily or combination skin with blackheads; dry or sensitive skin and people already using exfoliating acids should start slowly, as the brand itself advises.

What makes it different?

A powder that turns into a stretchy paste with water, pairing salicylic acid and papain with clays and volcanic ash in a rinse off blackhead cleanse, with a named patch test but no published details for its cleansing figures.

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.

Key ingredient

• Kaolin
• Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate
• Microcrystalline Cellulose
• Sodium Cocoyl Glycinate
• Zea Mays (Corn) Starch
• Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate
• Sodium Polyacrylate
• Volcanic Ash
• Silica
• Salicylic Acid
• Coconut Acid
• Sodium Isethionate
• Maltodextrin
• Papain
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Houttuynia Cordata Extract
• Ethylhexylglycerin

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: 코코넛애씨드

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 18 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.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

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