A few months ago, I spent some time looking through some of the cleansing oils I hadn’t tried before. Elizabeth Arden‘s Ceramide Replenishing Cleansing Oil stood out for me as its ingredient list was very short and straightforward. I decided to try it to see how it would work for me.
Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Replenishing Cleansing Oil (伊麗莎白雅頓 時空彈力植萃能量潔顏油, 195ml, £25 in the UK, $36 in the US) is from the brand’s Ceramide skincare range (which features the various types of skincare capsules). It is currently the only cleansing oil from the brand.
It has one of the shortest ingredient lists of cleansing oils that I have ever seen. (It contains only nine ingredients.) The first four ingredients are oils/emollients that help dissolve makeup (prunus armeniaca (apricot) kernel oil, carthamus tinctorius (safflower) seed oil, olea europaea (olive) fruit oil and caprylic/capric triglyceride). The fifth ingredient, PEG-20 glyceryl triisostearate, is the emulsifier in this product. (It helps turn the product into a milky liquid when the product is in contact with water.) The rest of the ingredients (all towards the bottom of the list) are scenting ingredients (parfum (fragrance), butylphenyl methylpropional, limonene and linalool). They give a light scent to the product.
It does not contain alcohol, mineral oil, fragrant plant oils or parabens.
It has a fairly light consistency, and it is easy to spread and maneuver on the skin. It dissolves makeup effectively, and it emulsifies efficiently and thoroughly. It is easily rinsed off, but there is a slight hint of emollience left on the skin (which feels very slightly filmy but far from greasy). I always use a small amount of face wash to wash my face after using a cleansing oil, and the hint of filminess is easily removed. (Those with dry or very dry skin might appreciate the emollience and might choose not to use a face wash afterwards.)
I tend to use a cleansing oil to remove my makeup to avoid excessive rubbing and massaging (which my skin doesn’t cope well with), and this product, which is easy to maneuver on the skin and to rinse off, works very well for me. (Note: I very rarely wear eyeliners or mascaras, so this product has not been tested on them.) It can do without the scenting ingredients (which can be skin irritants for some people), but, on the whole, it is a well-formulated product that does what it is supposed to do very well.
(Some of the ingredient information is from Paula Begoun’s Ingredient Dictionary.)
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