Brand Comparison

Lucas' Papaw Remedies vs Papa Recipe

A head-to-head comparison of two popular K-beauty brands. Which one is right for your skin?

Our Pick

Papa Recipe

Larger product range

Lucas' Papaw Remedies Papa Recipe

Rating8.6/108.6/10

Price RangeBudget ($)Budget ($)

Founded19062014

OriginAustraliaSeoul, South Korea

Products13

Best Forchapped-lips, cracked-skin, minor-burnsDry, normal, Mature, Sensitive

PhilosophyOne jar, six generations, zero fuss — the Queensland first-aid tin.The K-beauty family brand that turned a single honey mask into a global category — warm, unpretentious, and genuinely well-formulated.

Lucas' Papaw Remedies

A 100%-Australian family company making a single red-tinted fermented-papaya ointment since 1906. It's in every Aussie handbag for a reason. Model's favourite, baby's favourite, also genuinely good on chapped lips.

Pros

✓ Cult status across Australia for chapped lips and minor burns
✓ Pure petroleum jelly + papaya fermentation — simple and effective
✓ A-list model secret turned global export

Cons

✗ Petroleum base is polarising
✗ Only one hero product
✗ Packaging is dated charm or actually dated depending on your view

Papa Recipe

Papa Recipe is the quiet Korean family-run brand behind the Bombee Honey Mask Pack — the sheet mask your friend brought back from Seoul in 2016 that made you reconsider what a sheet mask could be. The lineup leans on manuka honey, propolis, and royal jelly; the packaging is unfussy; the masks genuinely work. Not the flashiest brand on the shelf, but the one your Korean aunt actually uses.

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