paparecipe Eggplant Clearing Enzyme Powder Cleanser

What is this product?

paparecipe's Eggplant Clearing Enzyme Powder Cleanser is a 50g powder whose scrub matters more than its enzyme: milled walnut shell is printed seventh, ahead of the papain at eleven, so it abrades as much as it digests. That makes it a good pick for oily or combination skin that wants to control how much exfoliation it gets each wash, and a poor one for skin that reacts to friction, for a compromised barrier or for known papain sensitivity. Its 32-ingredient list carries no fragrance, essential oil, ethanol or soap, but paparecipe prints no amounts, no pH and no test of its own, and its functional-cosmetic line differs between the brand page and the retail listing.

What makes it different?

The hydration half of its pitch is the weaker half. The botanical block is unusually heavy and unusually mushroom-weighted for a cleanser, with eight of the 32 ingredients being extracts and five of those eight mushrooms. Cleansing runs on three mild anionic surfactants at positions two, three and six, with gluconolactone at fifteen adding a mild acid.

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.

• Zea Mays (Corn) Starch
• Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate
• Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate
• Diglycerin
• Betaine
• Sodium Cocoyl Glycinate
• Juglans Regia (Walnut) Shell Powder
• Allantoin
• Glucose
• Maltodextrin
• Papain
• Manganese Violet
• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Gluconolactone
• Propanediol
• Dipropylene Glycol
• Solanum Melongena (Eggplant) Fruit Extract
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Glycerin
• Ganoderma Lucidum (Mushroom) Extract
• Lentinus Edodes Extract
• Lactobacillus Ferment
• Sparassis Crispa Extract
• Trametes Versicolor Extract
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Fruit Extract
• Tremella Fuciformis (Mushroom) Extract
• Tabebuia Impetiginosa Bark 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.

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked the one line this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. None of them hold up on their own. They are partly right at best.

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