Back to Basics: Choosing Your Cleanser

Easy as pie, right? Just grab whatever cleanser is handy. Well no, the right cleanser sets you up for great skin and prepares your skin for the effective treatment products to follow. The wrong cleanser can sensitized your skin, promote breakouts, and dehydrate your skin.

Choose the best cleanser for your skin type.

A good facial cleanser will remove dirt, makeup and excess oil without stripping your skin of it’s natural protective barrier, leaving it soft rather than tight. The best cleanser’s are chosen when considering your skin type, and avoiding artificial fragrance and alcohol.

• Dry / Sensitive Skin: look for emollient, creamy, non-foaming cleansers.

  • CRÈME FRAÎCHE cleansing soufflé is our richest cleanser for the driest skins. It contains healing aloe and soothing oils like jojoba, avocado and organic olive oil.

  • Calming Chamomile Cleanser is slightly less rich but incredibly soothing.

    Azulene pressed out of chamomile leaves leaves skin soft and calm.

• Normal / Dry / Maturing Skin: look for a gentle, hydrating milky cleanser.

  • Melt is a medium weight milky cleanser designed for dehydrated skin. Gotu Kola in this cleanser is prized for the amino acids and  beta carotene it contains, both help fight off the signs of aging from environmental stressors.

• Normal / Dull Skin (lacking vitality): look for a milky cleanser that gives a gentle boost to circulation.

  • Refresh offers dull, unresponsive skin a gentle boost via the botanical hydrosols such as rose water and orange blossom water found in this cleanser.

• Combination / Sensitive Skin: should stick with a light soothing milky cleanser that washes off easily without over drying the skin.

  • Aloeclens works great for combination sensitive skins. They will benefit from the soothing qualities of whole leaf aloe.  Especially formulated to calm the skin while disolving makeup, dirt and impurities.

• Younger / Normal Skin: choose a gentle, detergent free, gel cleanser that leaves skin feeling fresh and avoids dehydration that can sensitize and dehydrated your skin.

  • Gentle Gel provides a gentle cleanse for younger normal, dehydrated or combination skins.  It gently clears away impurities and toxins released from the skin using gentler detergent free surfactants. Much less drying than typical foaming cleansers.

• Sensitive / Combo / Oily Skin: needs a soothing, lightweight milky cleanser.

  • Rosemary Cleanser is a super light milky cleanser created to optimize better circulation. This balancing formula benefits sensitive skin by gently decongesting in the skin and calming redness.

• Oily / Clogged/ Problem Skin: needs effective exfoliation and pore clearing.

  • Jojoba Beads Exfoliating Cleanser contains smooth surfaced jojoba beads for daily morning exfoliation and salicylic acid to clear the pores.

Hope this list helps you with this most important choice of cleansers.

Elizabeth's Philosophy

Elizabeth Renee

Elizabeth believes in "Longevity Skincare", the idea that beautiful skin can endure throughout one's lifetime when utilizing the best that science and nature has to offer. In her forty plus years as a master esthetician Elizabeth discovered what really works, what truly makes a difference in creating a beautiful complexion. Longevity by Elizabeth Renee is a science-based skincare line that appreciates skin of all ages. As skin changes throughout your life you can keep looking youthful and vibrant, no matter what your chronological age. Longevity by Elizabeth Renee is a line that provides hydration, nutrition and protection from environmental aging. Your skin will receive high performance ingredients to help energize and repair its cells, resulting in a healthy skin with an enduring, vital glow.