Melts off makeup and sunscreen in one step, leaves skin soft.
At the end of the day you are taking off sunscreen, makeup and buildup, and you want it all gone without your skin feeling tight afterward.
Botanical B Enzyme Cleansing Oil dissolves makeup, sunscreen and buildup, then turns milky with water and rinses away clean, leaving skin soft and never stripped. Sunflower, papaya and pumpkin seed oils do the dissolving, and papain, an enzyme from papaya, helps smooth the surface as you massage. It smells of pineapple and citrus, with no synthetic fragrance.
Who It Is For
All skin types, including dry and sensitive, and anyone who wears sunscreen or makeup every day.
Acne Safe
What You Will See, and When
Makeup and sunscreen lift off from the first use, and skin feels soft rather than tight after rinsing.
How to Use
Use it at night, and in the morning too if you like, as the first step of a double cleanse. Pump enough to cover your face into dry hands and massage over a dry face, eyes included, for a full minute to dissolve makeup and sunscreen. Add a splash of water to turn it milky, rinse, then follow with your water based cleanser.
The Science
Makeup, sunscreen filters and the oil on your skin dissolve best in oil. The emulsifiers in this formula let the oil mix with water once you add a splash, so it rinses off carrying everything with it instead of leaving a film.
Not all plant oils treat the skin barrier the same way. In a randomized study of adult volunteers, four weeks of sunflower seed oil preserved the integrity of the skin's outer layer and improved hydration, while olive oil weakened it. Sunflower seed oil is the first ingredient here.
Papain is a protein digesting enzyme from papaya. Enzymes like it work on the protein links that hold dead surface cells together, which is why they are used for gentle surface smoothing.
Questions
Does it remove waterproof mascara?Yes. Massage gently over the lashes for 20 to 30 seconds before adding water.
Do I need a second cleanser after it?Yes. It is the first half of a double cleanse, so follow it with your water based cleanser.
Is it scented?Lightly, with pineapple and citrus. There is no synthetic fragrance.
Why a Routine Made for You Works Better
General advice is written for everyone, so it has to assume nothing about you. It can tell you what is safe. It cannot tell you what will work for your skin.
Skin changes when it is challenged just enough, then given time to recover and adapt. That amount is different for every person, and it moves as your skin gets stronger. Ask too much and your skin spends its energy recovering instead of improving. Ask too little and nothing changes. Finding that point for you, and moving it at the right time, is where results come from.
Where that point sits depends on:
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Your skin: its history, how it reacts, and what it is doing today
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Your health: hormones, medications, pregnancy and any condition that changes how skin behaves
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Your lifestyle: sleep, stress, diet, sun, exercise and climate
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Your routine: what you use now, and what has and has not worked before
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Your goals: what you most want to change
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Your expectations and timeline: how soon you want to see change, and what is realistic for your skin
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Your consistency: how much time and how many steps you will keep up with, because the best routine is the one you actually do
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Your treatments: what you have had and what you have planned
A skin therapist weighs all of this, builds a routine you can keep, and adjusts it as your skin responds. That is why we guarantee our products when they are part of a routine designed by one of our skin therapists. If you have been reading general advice, bring your questions. We will help you sort out what applies to you and what does not.
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Key Ingredients
Sunflower seed oilDissolves makeup and sunscreen while keeping skin soft
Papaya seed oil and papainCleanse and help smooth the surface
Pumpkin seed oilAdds a rich, nourishing slip
Vitamins C and EAntioxidants that also protect the oils
Full Ingredient List
Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil*, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Di-PPG-2 Myreth-10 Adipate, Polyglycerol-3 Beeswax, Carica Papaya (Papaya) Seed Oil, Cucurbita Pepo (Pumpkin) Seed Oil*, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Papain*, Lecithin*, Fragrance/Parfum. *Ingredients from organic farming.
References
1. Danby SG, AlEnezi T, Sultan A, et al. Effect of olive and sunflower seed oil on the adult skin barrier: implications for neonatal skin care. Pediatr Dermatol. 2013;30(1):42-50. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1470.2012.01865.x
2. One Love Organics. Botanical B Enzyme Cleansing Oil product page, oneloveorganics.com: dermatologist tested, synthetic fragrance free (brand data).