Review: Holika Holika Soda Pore Cleansing Powder Wash

Hello! ~♥ This is a review of the Holika Holika Soda Pore Cleansing Powder Wash. I have tried multiple cleansing products with baking powder before, like the Etude House Baking Powder BB Deep Cleansing Foam, the Etude House Baking Powder Pore Cleansing Cream or the Missha Green Tea Powder Wash with Baking Powder and liked all of them, so I was curious about trying out more products with this ingredient. The Holika Holika Soda Pore Cleansing Powder Wash comes in a 65ml plastic bottle. The packing design is cute, but nothing special.

This facial cleanser contains ingredients like baking soda (baking powder), papain enzyme, tea tree oil and with hazel and is supposed to deep clean and moisturize your skin and remove dead skin cells. It is formulated with carbonated water, which is supposed to add minerals to your skin. Baking powder can help balance your skin's ph level and is said to help with acne.

The cleanser consists of a white powder with a few blue grains. I thought it would be similar to the Missha Green Tea Powder Wash with Baking Powder, but while the Missha one was a fine powder, just like baking powder, this one is more coarse. It has a very strong citrus-like scent to it, which I did not like at all, but you only really notice it if you smell the powder directly. The scent doe snot linger on your face.

You take a small amount of the powder into your hand and and then just add a bit off water. You can create a lathe by mixing it in your hands, but just applying it on your face like this, and then mixing it together while massaging it into your face works just as well. At first I thought that this method of using it was a bit inconvenient, but after a few times I got used to it and did not mind.Apparently you can also use this product as a face mask, by using double the amount of powder, but I never tried this.
The Holika Holika Soda Pore Cleansing Powder Wash works okay for me. I was a bit worried that it would be irritating my skin, because of the big grains, but once mixed with water the grains dissolve into lathe and only the blue grains remain, which add to a nice and mild peeling-effect, but don't irritate my skin. It helps removing my daily makeup thoroughly, but it didn't improve my skin condition noticeably regarding my breakouts, which is alright for me, because no product ever did, so I did not expect it. I have become very modest with my demands regarding facial cleansers and am grateful if my skin conditions doesn't get any worse when I try out a new product.
 Thoroughly cleansing / Makeup removal
Content lasts really long
No English description
No noticeable skin improvement Strong citrus scent