sidmool HOUTTUYNIA CORDATA SOAP

What is this product?

A 100 g handmade bar from a Korean brand that sells it direct, aimed at oily and blemish-prone skin, on a page where the headline figures can be checked against the label printed beside them. Its twenty one printed entries carry houttuynia twice, as the water form at position 10 with a printed three percent and as the powder at position 12, on a base of one alkyl polyglucoside and four fatty acid soap salts, with a six-entry plant extract block behind them and one plant oil near the tail. The brand publishes the English ingredient list itself, alongside a per-entry gloss table, a complete eleven-field statutory block, a bar-weight tolerance of about ten grams either way, and a changeover notice naming which entries changed and when. It also publishes a microbiological limit test whose sample field names this exact product, and it warns in its own words that the houttuynia smell may be off-putting. There is no fragrance entry, no declared allergen, no denatured alcohol, no exfoliating acid and no acid-suffixed entry at all. No pH figure is published anywhere, only a mildly alkaline badge, and no efficacy or human-application study appears on any surface.

What makes it different?

Inside its own brand, this is the houttuynia bar that carries the plant in two forms rather than one, the water at a printed three percent and the powder, and the brand's own comparison table is what makes that countable rather than asserted. What is not a separator, and is recorded here because it would be easy to claim: the soap skeleton, the handmade framing, the holder recommendation and the weight tolerance all recur across the line siblings compared, and two of those siblings carry houttuynia water at higher printed levels than this one. The real separations are elsewhere and both are disclosure rather than formula: the brand publishes its own English ingredient list and a per-entry gloss table beside the statutory text, and it names its own product's smell as a possible reason not to buy.

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.

Key ingredient

• Water
• Glycerin
• Lauryl Glucoside
• Sucrose
• Sorbitol
• Sodium Laurate
• Sodium Myristate
• Sodium Palmitate
• Sodium Stearate
• Houttuynia Cordata Water
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Houttuynia Cordata Powder
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• Saururus Chinensis Extract
• Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Extract
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract
• Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil
• Dextrin
• 1,2-Hexanediol

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: 포도씨오일, 소듐라우레이트, 소듐미리스테이트, 소듐팔미테이트, 소듐스테아레이트

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 22 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 5 of them hold 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

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