SRB Rice Water Rice Bran Enzyme Cleanser

What is this product?

SRB 쌀뜨물 미강 효소 세안제 is a Korean rinse-off enzyme cleansing powder sold in a capped jar, built on a 옥수수전분 base with an amino acid and isethionate surfactant system, 소듐라우로일글루타메이트 plus 소듐코코일이세티오네이트 plus 소듐이세티오네이트, and no soap salt or added fragrance on the label. Its named actives are 쌀겨추출물, the rice bran of the product name, and 파파인, the protease, printed mid-list with no disclosed concentration. Best for oily and dehydrated-oily skin wanting a daily non-soap wash; patch test if pollen-allergic, since 꽃가루추출물 is on the label.

What makes it different?

One thing separates it from the rest of the enzyme powder shelf and one thing does not. What separates it is surfactant construction: the label carries an amino acid salt and two isethionates with no alkali and no preformed soap salt, where three verified powder washes checked in this category, paparecipe Blemish Enzyme Powder Cleanser, DEWYTREE High Amino All Enzyme Powder Wash and Isntree Mugwort Calming Powder Wash, each carry 소듐팔미테이트 or 포타슘미리스테이트. What does not separate it is fragrance: reading those three lists, only the paparecipe cleanser carries a 향료 entry, so three of the four compared here are unfragranced and this label shares that trait rather than owning it. On the axis it is named for it is undosed: 파파인 is printed mid-list with no figure, and of the three peers only the paparecipe cleanser quantifies its enzyme, at 파파인(1,923ppm), while the other two leave their enzymes unquantified as well. Its 각질관리 claim therefore grades partially-supported on its own label's silence rather than on standing out against the shelf, and its review base rewards it for moisture instead.

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

• Zea Mays (Corn) Starch
• Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate
• Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate
• Coconut Acid
• Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Extract
• Water
• Sodium Isethionate
• Sorbitol
• Sodium Chloride
• Allantoin
• Betaine
• Citric Acid
• Butylene Glycol
• Papain
• Isopropyl Palmitate
• Glucose
• Disodium EDTA
• Pollen Extract
• Ascorbyl Palmitate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice
• Hydrolyzed Collagen

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: Isopropyl Palmitate, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Coconut Acid

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 5 lines 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.

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

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

• paparecipe Blemish Enzyme Powder CleanserAnother product in the same category
• DEWYTREE High Amino All Enzyme Powder WashAnother product in the same category
• Isntree Mugwort Calming Powder WashAnother product in the same category

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• What does a rice toner actually do?Rice is usually the story and something else is the mechanism. Four Korean rice products with their printed figures, including one at ten parts per billion.