Tatcha Rice Polish: a Guru Score of 89% from 9 skincare experts

What the experts use it for.

The concerns the experts tie this product to, in their own words. Paid and founder takes don't count.

Rosacea1 expert

“It doesn't flare my rosacea.”

Irritated or reactive skin1 expert

“However, the calming version I found to be a little bit more friendly for sensitive skin and a little bit finer grit to it. So [...] if you have sensitive skin I would recommend it.”

No BS Beauty, watch at 6:41

Dull skin1 expert

“It does brighten your skin and it's a really great exfoliant.”

Nipun Kapur, watch at 8:11

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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Mad About Skin

734k subs

✓Yay

"This is great. Not the cheapest product out there. It's about I think I paid £50 for it, but I would say based on how much I've used, one pot of it will last me a year because I use it once a week just to get my exfoliation on point and just smooth out the skin. If you see it like that, it's a year's investment. I don't mind that price point. [...] This uses rice enzymes, which you see a lot in Japanese skincare, the use of enzymatic exfoliation."

Dr. Sam Ellis

902k subs

✓Yay

"For my face, I am obsessed with the Tatcha Rice Polish. It is these super super fine granules and you can just buff it into your skin and it's not irritating. It's not harsh. It doesn't flare my rosacea, but afterward my skin immediately feels smoother than a baby's butt."

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"My favorite scrub of all time is the Tatcha Rice Polish. If you have not used this and you like a physical exfoliation but you might have sensitive skin, highly highly recommend it. It actually comes as a powder so you pour it out in your hand, you add a little bit of water and it creates this beautiful rich plushy foam that still somehow has like a little bit of scrub and grit to it. And afterward your skin feels like baby butt smooth but not stripped. It doesn't flare my rosacea."

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"For my face, I am obsessed with the Tatcha Rice Polish. It is these super super fine granules and you can just buff it into your skin and it's not irritating. It's not harsh. It doesn't flare my rosacea, but afterward my skin immediately feels smoother than a baby's butt."

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"Their Rice Polish is a super nice gentle exfoliation product. [...] This Rice Polish is so fine and gentle it gives such a beautiful exfoliation. Your skin feels baby but smooth afterward and it won't flare your skin if you're more sensitive or have something like rosacea going on. [...] I always gift this to myself because it's one of my Holy Grail products."

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"I've tried a lot of physical exfoliants in my day and the reason I love the Tatcha Rice Polish so much is how fine the exfoliation is. It starts out as a powder that you put in your hands and then you add a little bit of water and work it into sort of like a grainy lather that you can gently massage into your skin. I like it because it's very hard to overdo it, there are not big grains that are going to tug on your skin or cause irritation."

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"My all-time favorite physical exfoliant, my favorite scrub, is by Tatcha, it's their Rice Polish. [...] Sometimes I'm just craving the tiniest bit of grit on my skin and I want my skin to feel a little bit polished and this one is so incredibly gentle and then it sort of melts down into this cleansing foam. It's so perfect. It takes forever for me to go through a bottle of it. I leave it in my shower and I do it maybe once a week, maybe once every two weeks, but it is gorgeous."

Nipun Kapur

413k subs

✓Yay

"The Tatcha Rice [...] Polish is the classic polish with stronger exfoliation. Even though it is the Tatcha Polish, [...] it still retains that little [...] grainy texture. I'm someone who still enjoys a physical exfoliation once in a while, and this is a gentle rice physical plus chemical, with rice enzymes. It brightens your skin and your skin looks really nice and really bright. This is a product I really like, and it lasts me like a year at least."

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"The Tatcha Rice [...] Polish is the classic polish with stronger exfoliation. Even though it is the Tatcha Polish, [...] it still retains that little [...] grainy texture. I'm someone who still enjoys a physical exfoliation once in a while, and this is a gentle rice physical plus chemical, with rice enzymes. It brightens your skin and your skin looks really nice and really bright. This is a product I really like, and it lasts me like a year at least."

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"I would recommend it if your skin is oily and you want to invest in a product like this. I give this an 8 on 10. It works really really well. [...] I picked it up last year. It's an enzyme cleanser. This will last you forever because it's a powder form. [...] You can use it safely for over three years because that is the expiration date. [...] This is a product I highly recommend."

April Basi

72k subs

✓Yay

"Make sure you're exfoliating once or twice a week, this will help remove dead skin cells and encourage skin cell turnover. Tatcha Rice Polish is a great classic example."

No BS Beauty

89k subs

✓Mixed

"I like this but I like the calming version better because it's better for sensitive skin. This one's a little bit on the harsh side but I like the calming version better, but a lot of people love it."

All 3 takes from No BS Beauty

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"However, they have four different versions of it and I still to me find the original version of it is a little bit drying for me. However, this gentle version has been very nice. I keep it in my bath in my shower now. I [...] found I like this version of it and it works pretty nicely and not as drying. So if you're interested in this, I know a lot of people absolutely love it. I didn't love it at first, but the gentle version is much more gentle."

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"I like this but I like the calming version better because it's better for sensitive skin. This one's a little bit on the harsh side but I like the calming version better, but a lot of people love it."

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"Tatcha has four different polishes. [...] The ones that come in these jars I found to be too harsh and a little bit drying. However, the calming version I found to be a little bit more friendly for sensitive skin and a little bit finer grit to it. So [...] if you have sensitive skin I would recommend it. If your skin is very flaky or very dry but not sensitive you can certainly check out the other versions, but I just found it to be [...] too harsh. But the gentle version was okay for me."

Doctorly

3.59M subs

✓Yay

"The Tatcha Rice Polish, it's actually a body scrub not only is it fragranced but it has a physical exfoliant in it and I'm actually out twice in the last two months of this product. [...] I don't know, I like it a lot. You have to try this one, it's phenomenal."

Beyond50Skin

32k subs

✓Yay

"This comes out in a powder which you emulsify with water. So you don't want to use this directly on the skin. Emulsify it, create the little foam, and then apply it to your skin. For those of you with sensitive skin, don't put this directly on your skin and emulsify it in your hands first because it will feel a little bit too grainy and irritating for sensitive skin."

Mixed Makeup

1.46M subs

✓Yay

"The Tatcha Rice Polish is one of the best products that Tatcha has out on the market. It is super foamy and creamy. [...] The enzymes that are in the powder are gently exfoliating your skin. You're not going to get as strong of exfoliation as you get with typical AHAs or salicylic acid or anything like that, it's very gentle. Most skin types can tolerate that. The Tatcha Rice Polish is very gentle."

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Cassandra Bankson

2.46M subs

✓Yay

"I actually really like these kind of rice powders or these very fine powders for physical exfoliation. The [...] monocrystalline cellulose rice powder is actually very gentle. Rice is a carbohydrate, basically a very sugary molecule, so it absorbs water well and it's more gentle on the skin. It's rounded instead of jagged like a walnut shell or an apricot pit. We have some [...] camellia sinensis again, green tea leaf, some ferment filtrate, some rice bran extract."

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"The rice powder from Tatcha is actually not terrible. I do want to try it because I know I talk a lot of smack about it, but you don't have to spend that much money. I love the Dermalogica, I recommend it. There's also one from Wishtrend that's pretty good as well, that's much less expensive. If you're on a real beauty budget, the K Beauty option will make your face feel like it is baby smooth soft. But the Tatcha, yeah, I'm glad she likes it and she does look glowy."

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"I actually really like these kind of rice powders or these very fine powders for physical exfoliation. The [...] monocrystalline cellulose rice powder is actually very gentle. Rice is a carbohydrate, basically a very sugary molecule, so it absorbs water well and it's more gentle on the skin. It's rounded instead of jagged like a walnut shell or an apricot pit. We have some [...] camellia sinensis again, green tea leaf, some ferment filtrate, some rice bran extract."

What the evidence says.

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

Sunscreen filters

Sun protection is the best evidenced way to slow visible ageing, and the filters are what does the work. Mineral and chemical filters both protect when a product is applied thickly enough and often enough, which is where most people fall short rather than on the choice of filter.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Tatcha Rice Polish?

A powder exfoliant that transforms into a creamy foam when mixed with water, designed to gently polish skin using rice enzymes and fine physical exfoliation.

Is Tatcha Rice Polish worth it?

Mostly yes. 8 of the 9 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 89%.

What is Tatcha Rice Polish's Guru Score?

Tatcha Rice Polish holds a Guru Score of 89%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 9 expert reviewers we have collected. It is also Guru Certified, our mark for products that hold broad approval across many expert reviewers.