Best Face Cleansers 2021 | The Sun UK

YOU don’t have to be a skincare guru to own a face cleanser – it should be a staple component in everyone’s daily morning and evening routines.

The best face cleansers work way better than any face wash, giving you a deeper clean, removing any impurities and reducing the chance of breakouts.

Face cleanser is the first step of everyone’s skincare regime

Whether you’ve been out for a walk in the park, or commuted to work on the dusty tube, your faces gathers lots of bacteria, dirt and other debris throughout the day.

Facial cleansers help remove all of that gross stuff, refreshing your complexion by removing anything that might be irritable to your skin or cause blemishes.

You simply apply cleanser after removing your make-up in the evening, or just after brushing your teeth in the morning. Once you start properly cleaning your skin, you won’t look back.

To help you find one of the best face cleansers out there, we’ve curated a list of the most popular, cult beauty faves according to reviews, and well, our personal favourites.

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1. CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser

1. (AD) CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser, £9.49 from Amazon – buy here

If you haven’t heard of CaraVe yet, we’ll happily take the glory of introducing it to you. It’s a dermatologist-approved favourite in the skincare world.

Available on Amazon, CeraVe’s Hydrating Cleanser is an affordable must-have, made to give you a moisturising cleanse with three essential ceramics and hyaluronic acid.

The 236ml bottle (!) is a fragrance-free, gentle cleanser that’s ideal for both beauty-lovers, and people who just need a trusty, no-nonsense face wash.

2. Sukin Cream Cleanser

1. (AD) Sukin Cream Cleanser, £6.76 from Amazon – buy here

The brand known for incorporating natural ingredients, Sukin’s Cream Cleanser is a sensitive skin-saviour.

For under £7, this face cleanser is a wonderful concoction of rosehip, avocado and wheat germ leaves that promise to soothe the skin as it cleanses.

Nature does it best.

3. We tested: The INKEY List Oat Cleansing Balm

• The INKEY List Oat Cleansing Balm, £9.99 from Lookfantastic – buy here

Looking for something that leaves your skin silky soft? The INKEY List’s Oat Cleansing Balm might just be your match.

Rich in antioxidants, this cleanser incorporates 3 per cent concentration of Oat Kernel Oil to clear your pores, lessening blackheads and it promises to leave your skin irritation-free but always fresh.

For under £10, it’s a cleanser that we are in fact, obsessed with. Ever since buying it, we haven’t looked back as it is leaves your skin feeling so supple and soft.

The texture of it is nothing like other facial cleansers that we’ve used in the past as it’s a balmy, moisturising formula that feels gentle, natural and removes make-up really easily.

Sometimes, we now use it as a make-up remover and face wash all in one because it’s expert at melting away make-up, leaving you with a fresh complexion that feels squeaky clean.

As a sufferer of dry skin, we were so happy to find The Inkey List’s cleanser.

4. We tested: Aesop Fabulous Facial Cleanser

• Aesop Fabulous Facial Cleanser, £35 from CultBeauty – buy here

Aesop products always double as chic bathroom ornaments, plus, as Margot Robbie once said, “Everything from Aesop smells so good.”

This olive oil and aloe vera based cleanser comes in a 200ml bottle, and works well for both sensitive and acne-prone skin.

We tested it out to see if it’s worth the £35 price-tag. After instantly displaying it in our bathroom, we used a small amount following removal of our make-up with a reusable cotton pad.

And you definitely only need a small amount of this gel formula to properly clean your face, which means it’ll last a few months.

From the sophisticated floral scent, to the soft cleanse it gives you, Aesop’s facial cleanser is definitely a favourite and frankly, we see an expensive habit coming on – for a deeply-cleansed feel that is gentle and leaves your face smelling fabulous, this one’s for you.

5. Mario Badescu Acne Facial Cleanser

• Mario Badescu Acne Facial Cleanser, £13.50 from Beauty Bay – buy here

If billionaire Kylie Jenner still uses Mario Badescu’s affordable products, then you know they’re good. The Acne Facial cleanser is a popular go-to among acne sufferers.

Blending salicylic acid and botanical extracts, this face cleanser removes impurities without stripping your face of all the good stuff.

Among the hundreds of happy reviews, one customer writes, “Best face wash I’ve ever used, totally recommend well worth the money if you suffer from acne once you try this you won’t stop.”

6. Formula 10.0.6 So Totally Clean Deep Pore Cleanser

• Formula 10.0.6 So Totally Clean Deep Pore Cleanser, £7.50 from Beauty Bay – buy here

You don’t have to splash out on effective skincare: Formula 10.0.6’s So Totally Clean Deep Pore Cleanser is under £8.

According to reviews, the powerful smell has divided opinions but the general consensus is that it gives you a really deep clean that still looks after your skin.

This is one of those products that you need to grab before it goes out of stock again.

7. Tata Harper Purifying Cleanser

• Tata Harper Purifying Cleanser, £66 from CultBeauty – buy here

Want to really treat yourself? Tata Harper’s Purifying Cleanser is as special as it looks.

Using naturally exfoliating fruit enzymes, broccoli extract, natural sugars and absolutely no synthetic ingredients, this cleanser is said to be extremely effective for minimising pores.

The majority of the brand’s ingredients are made on Tata’s very own farm too, so we’re naturally obsessed.

8. La Roche-Posay Toleriane Dermo-Cleanser

• La Roche-Posay Toleriane Dermo-Cleanser, £10 from Lookfantastic – buy here

La Roche-Posay’s Toleriane Dermo-Cleanser is here to relieve those of you who are suffering from irritated, uncomfortable skin, or people prone to allergy or intolerances.

There’s nothing worse than everyone raving about a facial cleanser, for you to then try it and have a reaction because your skin is so sensitive.

This ultra-gentle formula is free from paragons, fragrance, alcohol and all that bad stuff, leaving your skin feeling soft, refreshed and looked after.

Whilst you’re here, check out our roundup of the best reusable face pads that remove your makeup with just water!

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This article and featured products have been independently chosen by Sun journalists. It contains links which are ads, and if you click a link and buy a product we will earn revenue.

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