CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser for Daily Face Washing

I had a coupon for CeraVe products and picked up both of the cleansers and their daily moisturizer. So happy I did, because they are amazing.TL;DR: I use both the Foaming and the Hydrating cleansers in my routine. They have different places, but are both wonderful cleansers, especially if you know how to get the most out of them. The cost is right on the money for a 12 ounce container and they last quite a while. I can generally get 3+ months out of one container using it once a day. Great value for great cleansers.I have Combination-Dehydrated/Extra Dry skin. Basically, my skin is generally dry, extra dry in the wintertime. Because of hormones from having a baby combined with enviromental factors, stress, and working on settling on a skincare routine that worked for me, my normally oily Tzone is dehydrated. Although it gets oily, the skin under the oil is flaky and can crack if not moisturized twice a day. Many products leave a minor stinging/burning sensation on these dehydrated spots, the sides of my nose especially. My skin is eczema prone and only sensitive to certain ingredients.FOAMING VS HYDRATINGI use both. I run a korean skincare routine (and love it) and this is just what works for me. I like to use the foaming in the morning since all it needs to remove is any product residue from my nighttime routine as well as any dirt, oil, and sebum from my slumbers. The foaming cleanser comes out almost like a gel. I rub it between my fingers to get it to start to cream up before working it onto my skin in gentle circular movements. Adding just a bit of water will allow it to foam up gently on your face. It hardly takes any effort at all to make it work. On my extra dry skin, it does leave me with a bit of a tight "clean" feeling, but it doesn't make me feel dry.The hydrating cleanser I use as part of my nighttime routine. I dual cleanse, so I start with the  The Face Shop Rice Water Bright Cleansing Light Oil  to remove any makeup residue (See the makeup section below for more info) and sunscreen. Then I follow up with my CeraVe hydrating cleanser. I used to hate it because I felt like my skin wasn't getting clean enough. I knew I needed a hydrating cleanser, but my skin just didn't feel clean afterwards. Or rather, my skin felt clean, but not deeply clean like I experience with other cleansers. The cream cleanser just didn't seem to be able to work it's way, even slightly, into my pores. It was also the only time I had ever had an issue with finding any residual dirt on my cotton pad when using my toner afterwards. I blame my oily Tzone for this. My aesthetician recommended pairing it with a cleansing brush, so I pulled the Clarisonic I thought my skin was too sensitive for out of storage, popped on a new brush head (because two years in storage with a used brushhead? Yeah, no.) and went to town. I was amazed. Using a brush with the hydrating cleanser is a complete game changer. You don't even need a Clarisonic if you don't have one! They sell inexpensive manual brushes for a few dollars that will work just fine. Using a brush with it really changed how well it cleaned my face. My pores felt clean and no more residue on my toner pads.I use both cleansers because my skin is too sensitive for the use of my Clarisonic more than once a day, even with the sensitive brush heads. I -need- that clean pore feeling though, so that is why the foaming cleanser is my choice in the morning. I don't use the foaming cleanser alone because it is just harsh enough on my dry skin that I can't use it more than once a day. It is made for those with normal/oily skin though, so it's to be expected. So yes, my routine probably makes you balk at how much effort it takes, but this is what works for me and my skin. I am fine with the effort, and that is all that matters.Another part that is brilliant, is that you don't even need to follow up with toner unless you want to. The purpose of toner is to return your skin to it's natural pH. Both of these cleansers have about a 5.5pH even with water, which makes them right in line with your natural pH. I use my alcohol free toner anyway, but that's a personal preference.MAKEUP REMOVALI don't actually use these for makeup removal. I personally like to use an eye/lip remover and a makeup wipe for significant makeup in the summer. I use a Ponds cold cream for significant makeup in the winter because of my need to combat my dry skin. My dual cleansing with the oil cleanser by The Face Shop is my preferred method because I don't feel like one cleanser can remove all your makeup and cleanse your skin. I feel that not dual cleansing just moves the makeup around on your face and leaves your toner to clean up the remaining bits so you can have a "clean enough" face. I want better than "clean enough" for my skin. Dual cleansing has been amazing for it's tone, texture, and the way my products work. You notice I say "significant makeup" there. Most days I will wear just BB cream and mascara, so on those days I will just jump right to my oil cleanser by The Face Shop. It removes those easily and without irritation. Full face makeup I feel like I have to do more scrubbing at my face to remove, which is why I like to remove more of it before washing instead of having to oil cleanse twice.All that being said, I did use both of these cleansers to remove makeup. I tried them with my simple BB cream + mascara routine, full face makeup, and full coverage foundation with a heavy smokey eye.FOAMING: Did a good job at removing all three makeup styles. BB+Mas was easy and came off with no effort. Full Face it did well, but couldn't remove the water proof mascara and struggled with the liquid liner of my cat eye. The Full coverage look it tried, but struggled. I found I had to wash my face, rinse, and then wash again to get any sort of a clean face and still ended up with a dirty toner pad at the end. It wasn't extremely dirty, but it was more dirt than I like to see after using a cleanser. Eye makeup removal did leave mild eye irritation.HYDRATING: Did a great job with all three makeup looks and did remove the waterproof mascara and the cat eye with ease. The Full Face and Full Coverage looks both required a wash, rinse, repeat in order to remove everything and even with the double wash, all three looks left dirt on my toner's cotton pad. The dirt wasn't so bad on the BB+Mas look, but the other two, when I didn't wash, rinse, repeat, was so dirty it would take 1-2 pads to remove it all. It was like it lifted the makeup off my skin, but then just moved it around. I might be a little too anal about how clean my face needs to be/feel, so your mileage might vary.I've tried dozens of cleansers, Western and Asian alike and these are both wonderful cleansers. The foaming can work for most skin types. Dry skin wants to be careful and sensitive skin might want to avoid it. The hydrating can work for everyone, though no as well on someone with very oily skin, but you will get the most out of your cleanser by using it with a cleansing brush of your choice. They might not be the best for makeup removal, but if you don't wear full coverage foundation (or don't have a problem with wash, rinse, repeat) and can live with using a separate eye/lip makeup remover, these can easily be amazing all the time cleansers in your routine.Now if only Amazon would add the Hydrating cleanser to their Subscribe and Save service instead of just the Add-On program.

I regret that it took me so long to discover CeraVe -- I wish I had known about this stuff years ago! In this review I'm going to cover all the CeraVe products I've used, not just the Hydrating Cleanser I'm posting this under.I am in my 40s and have had "difficult" skin since I was a teenager. I've suffered frequent breakouts my entire adult life, and as I've gotten older my skin has somehow managed to become dry and oily at the same time. I have tried so many products over the years, many of them costing much more than this stuff, and nothing has really worked well and consistently for me until now. For the first time in my life, I have consistently clear skin -- I haven't had a breakout in months, and the dryness is pretty much under control too, even in the dead of winter!This is the regimen I use:1) CeraVe Cleanser -- I first started with the Foaming Cleanser. That didn't break me out, but it was drying, so I've shelved it for now (might go back to it during the summer months). Instead I'm using the Hydrating Cleanser now, and this stuff is a dream. It doesn't lather, which took some getting used to, but it goes on like silk and feels so nice on my skin. It takes off makeup easily, and helps with dryness. No breakouts, no flakes, no redness, yay.2) Toner -- I use plain witch hazel as a toner (Witch Hazel Distillate by The Homestead Company, http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B004TH71W0 . Love this stuff, it's the only alcohol-free witch hazel I've ever found.)3) CeraVe Moisturizer -- I use the AM in the AM and the PM in the PM :) Both feel awesome on my skin, absorb nicely, have no scent, and don't irritate or break me out in any way. The AM is thicker due to its SPF, while the PM is thinner and lighter. Love both of them, they work beautifully with my skin and feel fantastic.4) CeraVe Eye Repair Cream -- This is the only CeraVe product that I've felt underwhelmed by. It feels nice and doesn't have any ill effects, but it doesn't really seem to do anything positive either. In my experience, that's true of most eye creams (ha). I can't really recommend this one, because I saw no change at all with it.5) CeraVe Moisturizing Lotion and CeraVe Moisturizing Cream -- I use the lotion as a body lotion after showering, and I use the cream as a hand cream. The lotion is thinner and lighter, while the cream is thick and rich. I really like both of them, the cream especially.None of the CeraVe products have a scent to them, which I really appreciate. None of them irritate my ridiculously sensitive skin in any way. All of them (except the eye cream) have improved my skin in remarkable and immediate ways. And they are all dirt cheap!! I still can't believe how amazing this stuff is. I wish I had known about it years and years ago. I have never been happier with a line of skin care products, and I have tried a bunch of them. I cannot recommend this stuff highly enough and hope they never ever stop making it.

I was a bit hesitant to buy at first from amazon but it was not available at any sites and the insta pages were charging way more than the actual price so I decided to go for amazon and to my surprise I received the original product and it’s holy grail for dry skin. So glad I saved some money rather than buying from insta

È super delicato e lascia la pelle morbida e idratata senza appesantirla. Di solito ho la pelle grassa, ma da quando lo uso mi sono completamente riequilibrata!! Vale la spesa perché non essendo schiumoso ne basta pochissimo e dura tanto!!

J'aime énormément la texture de ce nettoyant qui est très douce sur la peau et extrêmement fraîches, on sent qu'il nettoie bien tout en hydratant. Je l'utilise depuis un peu plus d'une semaine et je sens déjà ma peau plus douce. La composition du produit est impeccable, il n'y a pas de parfum ou autre ingrédients susceptible d'irriter la peau.J'ai tendance at fzire de l'eczéma sur le visage si je n'utilise pas les bons produits et elle a presque integralement disparue. Ce produit convient parfaitement aux peaux sensibles.

Good for sensitive skin.

Item doesn’t appear new. It’s dirty. I hope it’s not fake.