A face wash is an essential. As a matter of fact, I had used soaps for the most part of my life as a face wash. Yes yes yes. This might be a shock for some and what's-so-shocking-about-it for some. Like I said, I belonged to the latter for a good portion. However, I've been using just face washes / face cleansers for the past couple of years and it sure did helped me a lot. I don't have a particular reason for changing. I've tried random face washes in my hometown and none of them were working. It made my skin oily and I've never got a squeaky clean feeling. The weather in the place I live now changed my skin texture a lot. It made my skin a combination one. It was good as well as bad. But after facing the oily skin the most part of my life it felt better, at least to me. I've started to try different moisturizers, face wash and so many other things. The first face wash I bought here was from Clean and clear and since then I got hooked to the face wash world. This time my skin was not oily like it use to be in my hometown. That got me inspired and I started to experiment on the face washes. I've tried different brands like clean and clear, Neutrogena, L'Oreal, etc.. Most of them served the purpose and I do see a little bit change after their continuous use.
All the time I've researched about different face washes, this one brand was repeatedly recommended from many good sources. That is Cetaphil. And they added saying it is dermatologically recommended. For some reason, I've been skipping this bottle so long. May be its the other colorful bottles and the wonderful looking liquids with cute little beads on it overwhelmed me that I went for them instead of the boring look and doctor recommended kind. I like to think that its because of me they went for a make over and came up with a little bit better looking one! And this time when I went to the store there was a sale of course! How can I leave the bottle this time? So I went for it.
This cleanser gives me a squeaky clean feeling but didn't dry me out crazily. When I washed with it the first time it felt like I am applying some kind of gel and it didn't foam. So I washed it off with water and reapplied it again. This time it did foamed a little however not like an usual one. I do know that cleansers doesn't foam much except if it is specifically mentioned as foam cleansers. Ignoring that I went for the second wash. It did dried me out a little bit but not a very damaging one for my skin. So it may be very drying for normal/dry skin people.
Other strange thing that happened was, I used this cleanser twice a day regularly for like 2 weeks or so and I noticed dry skin near my smile line and I didn't know which product was causing it. The only product that had ever dried my skin was this one and I stopped using it for a couple of days and it got better. My guess was right. So on my combination skin it was drying if I use it twice a day everyday. It is working good for those days when I need a quick face wash before I go to bed, however I will not forget to apply my toner and moisturizer on those days. From the lessons learned, if I feel like I need an extra cleanse for my
face I will take a little bit extra amount of gel and wash my face only
once. And it is enough for a good clean skin. I am using my other face washes as well but I always get back
to Cetaphil when I feel like my skin need a complete cleanse.
Will I repurchase? Yes, for Cetaphil. However I will try the sensitive skin line.
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