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Question: What other uses do you have for cleansing oils?

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So I’ve been staring at these 2 bottles of cleansing oils I bought from Shanghai. They are the Watson’s Cleansing Oil and they were on offer for something like 2 for RMB45.

watsons cleansing oil is meh!

I tried one a couple of times and found I did not like it. It is supposed to made from olive oil, and it feels very thick. It goes on the skin and sticks to it, pretty much like how oil sticks to things – you know like in the kitchen? It takes a long time to wash off and even then, does not feel clean. My skin feels sticky and oily after that, and I have to triple cleanse – yes, wash twice with cleansing foam!

It actually reminds me a lot of another popular “Deep Cleansing Oil” both in texture, make up and form. Which?

It reminds me a lot of the DHC Deep Cleansing Oil, which I tried many years ago and binned within a week because it clogged my pores and broke me out so bad it was not funny. It even has that same dark yellow colour and both are supposed to contain olive oil extracts.

I should have borne that in mind, because this Watson’s Cleansing Oil did the same. Clog my pores and break me out. Bad.

That said, who knows. If the DHC Deep Cleansing Oil works for you, you could even find that this one’s a much cheaper dupe! Not that I’m saying it is.

Anyway, its now sitting in my bathroom mocking me for being greedy and foolish and too much of a mad scientist. I’m not sure what else we can use cleansing oils for.

Any one have ideas? 🙂 Else these 2 will go into the bin. Bleh.

Paris B

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  2. I wonder if cleansing oil can be used like a shaving oil. I probably should tried it when I decide to go for the clean shaven look.

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  3. I read somewhere that you can use cleansing oil to wash your makeup brushes. I’ve done that and it works especially for hard to remove products like foundation. Remember that you still have to wash off the oil with regular soap and water. HTH!

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  4. hahaha “broke me out so badly it was not funny”.

    er…i have no idea what to do with it. is there any hapless victim u can try it on?

    and i like the “meh” face. totally conveys what i feel when a product does not work, for example the much raved about rice water cleansing emulsion from The face Shop, which did absolutely nothing for me, i might as well have used water. meh indeed.

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    • I don’t think any hapless victims will appreciate it when this breaks them out 😛 I haven’t tried much from The Face Shop you know. I don’t know why, but nothing grabs me (and I don’t even know what’s raved about from them 😛 ) Besides, I actually used rice water when I was younger – actual rice water, not some bottled one 😉

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  5. I don’t care much for my MAC cleanse off oil and I used it to clean my brushes. It works wonders for the foundation brushes, gel liner brushes, lip brushes, etc 🙂

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    • Thank you! I knew the clever girls out there will come through for me 😀 I’ll probably do that with mine too. At least they won’t go to waste 😀

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      • Yeah, I have so many brushes (makeup artist :D), it would cost a fortune to clean all my brushes with a special brush cleanser.. BTW, I read all the comments and they made me chuckle..Love your blog lol

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    • That’s a good idea too although I find that anything cleans off quite easily with a facial cleanser 🙂 Might do for the stubborn things like liners

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    • I did think of giving it away, but its heavy and I have no time to get mails out so logistics gets messy. Still who knows eh? (I won’t bin it – too miserly 😉 )

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  13. Brush cleaner maybe? I had a neutrogena eye/lip makeup remover that I bought and hated, but it works wonderfully as a brush cleaner!

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  15. use as a diluting medium for oil paints!
    On another totally irrelevant note, i recently received a 100ml travel exclusive size estee lauder perfectionist cp+ serum as a gift. Do any of u beauty pros here knows how much its worth? I cant find the rm online.
    Thanks!

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    • Hmm…. Not possible as cleansing oils are water soluble. I don’t think its a question of thickness but of composition and ingredients that killed my skin

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  18. I can’t use cleansing oils at all. No matter what they clog my pores 🙁

    Hmm why don’t you use this to soften ur heels and scrub it after that? It will help on the dryness I guess.

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    • It might be the ingredients in cleansing oils that clog your pores. Many contain mineral oils and I can never read the ingredients in Japanese brands anyway so its always trial and error. Now I tend to stick to those I’m more familiar with so I have less issues 🙂

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      • I have this Face Oasis from H20+ in trial size, it feels like cleansing oil but there’s no oil. It’s quite nice actually. I’ve tried it for a few days and no bumps! But it’s not that cheap… 🙁

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  20. I use cleansing oil to clean my synthetic brushes. It works great for me especially my foundation and concealer brushes. Never use it with brushes that are made from natural hairs though.

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