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Eggplant Clearing Enzyme Powder Cleanser.

Papa Recipe Eggplant Clearing Enzyme Powder Cleanser
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About this product

A powder cleanser with enzymatic and physical exfoliants, including papain enzyme and powder particles, designed for gentle daily cleansing and exfoliation.

Full ingredients

Guru Score

70%

Mixed

Early verdict · Few reviews so far
4Gurus
2Yay
1Mixed
1Nay

What they liked

  • Soft foam without stripping or abrasion
  • Gentle exfoliation that doesn't feel harsh
  • Fine powder texture, not coarse grains

What they flagged

  • Left some faces red and irritated
  • Contains fragrance
  • Walnut shell particles, a common allergen

What the gurus are saying

This powder enzyme cleanser combines rice powder, corn starch, and papain enzyme for gentle exfoliation, but the walnut fragments and fragrance divide opinion. The soft buffing action earns praise for protecting the skin barrier and allowing safe, frequent use, particularly valued for aging skin concerned with inflammaging. However, the walnut fragments and fragrance are dealbreakers for those who would otherwise enjoy it.
Synthesized from 4 expert reviews · most recent take January 2025

What the gurus are saying.

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~Mixed
"Papa Recipe has a slightly different texture, with larger powder particles and a hint of purple. The foam is still soft, but just like Suisai, it left my face red. Since it's a newer product, the ingredients seem a bit milder, making it slightly better, but I'd only recommend it for oily or combo skin, and only once a week at most."
~Yay
"A lot of powder cleansers can tend to feel kind of stripping or abrasive on the skin and I don't get that at all with this cleanser. My skin feels so good. I'm definitely going to be using this powder cleanser again like that was a lovely experience."
~Yay
"Papa Recipe's blemish enzyme powder cleanser has rice powder, walnut shell, and PHA. The exfoliating ingredients are really gentle—PHA is the gentler version of AHA that works slower, meaning it's more gentle, while the rice and walnut shell powder gives you a really gentle scrub all in a pH balanced cleanser. The texture is a powder, not big shells or grains. When you add water and lather it up on your face, you feel those scrubby particles very gently almost vanish as you gently exfoliate your skin. It's like once they've done their job, they disappear and glide over the skin with a very gentle buffing texture, not a rip and scrub into the skin. With daily or every other day use of this product, you get a really nice gentle exfoliation that is effective without the risk of overdoing it without destroying your skin barrier, which will lead to further issues. It also has rice water which helps hydrate and brighten skin, even out skin tone, and make you look fresher alongside soothing allantoin and hydrating glycerin. This is a gentle exfoliating product that for rosacea-prone skin like mine at my age, I don't want to suffer from inflammaging which is irritating your skin to the point where it becomes inflamed and speeds up the aging process, so I'm taking a very gentle approach."
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~Nay
"I was very excited about this as a really great alternative to another enzyme cleanser. The main ingredients in here are actually corn starch and rice powder which are much more gentle on the skin. However, unfortunately you guessed it, this also contains tiny fragments of walnuts. I'm so mad. Even though this is a come to mama product I started using this powder exfoliator and I actually love this, and I kind of did love the scrubby-dubby feeling. This has sake and the enzyme part is from papain from papayas, and it's at almost 2,000 parts per million in this product. But it's also got fragrance which was kind of a disappointment since most of the other products didn't have it. This is a perfect example of a product that I used and thought I knew my ingredients but I obviously didn't look at them critically enough, and I ended up actually kind of liking it but then feeling horrible about it. The fragrance was a disappointment, and for me this was bottom level, not for my face. There are other exfoliating scrubs that I like better."
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What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Frequently asked.

What is Papa Recipe Eggplant Clearing Enzyme Powder Cleanser?

A powder cleanser with enzymatic and physical exfoliants, including papain enzyme and powder particles, designed for gentle daily cleansing and exfoliation.

Is Papa Recipe Eggplant Clearing Enzyme Powder Cleanser worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 70%.

What is Papa Recipe Eggplant Clearing Enzyme Powder Cleanser's Guru Score?

Papa Recipe Eggplant Clearing Enzyme Powder Cleanser holds a Guru Score of 70%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 4 expert reviewers we have collected.

Who is Papa Recipe Eggplant Clearing Enzyme Powder Cleanser best for?

Papa Recipe Eggplant Clearing Enzyme Powder Cleanser is generally suited to acne-prone skin.

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