Best Cleansing Oils for the Face

This is the oil cleanser I use every night. I use it in tandem with a hyaluronic acid serum and Tracie's moisturizer. My aging, drying skin problems have cleared up. No more flaky skin. That said, I do find if I go off of it for a weekend, the flakes reappear.

Reviews all over the Web prove I'm not alone in my love for this cleanser. Users with rosacea, dry and sensitive skin seem to be the biggest fanatics. 

The only con is the price. It's expensive. But if you use only one squirt instead of the recommended 3, the product will last longer.  

Bloggers, editors, regular people, celebrities are using this Japanese brand and apparently loving it. This cleanser is the bestseller from this Japanese company.

So what do they love about it? It's affordable price and its effective cleansing. Turns out DHC is great for all skin types and is a great choice for those with sensitive skin because it's olive oil based. 

Many oil cleansers from Japanese and Korean brands. Apparently, the people in these countries go ga-ga for natural oils. TATCHA is a Japanese company and this cleansing oil is a bestseller. It hits a home run review-wise as there seems not a bad review of this cleanser on the Web. 

Made up of camellia and rice bran oils, apparently, camellia oils are a treasured secret of geishas over the centuries. They use camellia oil to remove their stage makeup without drying or damaging their skin, according to TATCHA found, Victoria Tsai. 

This product pops up often in reviews as an example of a great cleansing oil. 

It's formulated with antioxidants and botanicals including hydrangea leaf, amino acids , and geranium. It is also free of fragrances. 

Lots of oil cleansers start out oily and end up milky when you add water to them. This is the case with bareMinerals, which is marketed as "lightweight." The oils it contains are borage, sunflower, bilberry, and cucumber.

 BareMinerals is famous for its makeup, but this cleansing oil proves the brand also knows its skincare. This cleanser gets great online reviews.

If you are looking for a super pure, natural cleansing oil, you can't go wrong with Juice Beauty. Formulated with grapeseed, may chang, ho wood, and sunflower oils, this cleanser is ideal for all skin types and is marketed for women concerned with aging. 

People with oily, dry, combination and skin prone to cystic acne were all giving it 5 stars. A few people complained they felt it did nothing for their skin, but if this is the case for you, I recommend returning it.  

Developed from the original cleansing oil with updated ingredients, this product combines 4 different types of oils for better cleansing efficacy.

It helps dissolve stubborn and waterproof makeup as well as residues on the skin. Infused with camellia oil, ginger root extract, and deep sea water, it provides nutritive & restorative properties and enhances clarity, transparency and skin health. It's suitable for all skin types

Described by Vogue as "probably the best cleanser in the world," Eve Lom's oil-based cleanser uses a mix of oils, including Egyptian chamomile oil, eucalyptus oil, clove oil and hops oil, to soothe, cleanse and tone skin.

According to a video on the Eve Lom Website, you're meant to apply the cleanser to dry skin, massage it in and then dip the muslin cloth that comes with it (buy more from Amazon) in hot water, squeezing out the excess and then using the cloth to exfoliate and wash off the cleanser. 

Reviews are overwhelmingly positive, although it's interesting to note that Beautypedia website gave it only one star, claiming all the cleansers is full of irritants that could potentially inflame sensitive skin. It also states that the price is too high to pay for a cleanser that includes the same ingredients as some cheaper versions. 

Users, however, typically seem to love it. 

This is a super-affordable oil cleanser from beauty brand Ulta, and it gets 5 stars on Beautypedia, making it worthy of a mention here. 

Fragrance-free and oil-enriched, this cleanser works best on all skin types except maybe oily. Users like it because it lathers up nicely, doesn't contain fragrances which could inflame sensitive skin and leaves skin feeling clean but not taut. 

Bobbi Brown swears by her own cleansing oil on my favorite blog Into the Gloss, and it gets good reviews on Sephora.

According to the Bobbi Brown website, this cleansing oil contains a special blend of oils that calm the skin and boost hydration. The jasmine flower extract and kukui nut oil moisturize, while the blend of organic sunflower, olive, and jojoba oils cleanse without leaving skin feeling dry or tight.

Josie Maran is famous for introducing Argan oil to the Western world, and this is her version of a cleansing oil made with -- you guessed it -- argan oil.  

Other oils in this cleanser: Sunflower, safflower, and grape seed.

It gets good reviews online. 

This cleansing oil is recommended by renowned makeup artist Lisa Eldridge on her website. While she's really a pro at makeup, the key and really the foundation to a flawless look is flawless skin, so she really cares about skin products. 

L'Oreal makes nice, affordable products, but user reviews are not as complimentary as Eldridge's. Makeupalley reviewers gave it 3 1/2 out of 5 stars on average.