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Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm.

Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm
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About this product

A fragrance-free cleansing balm designed to remove makeup, sunscreen, and impurities as the first step of a skincare routine. It melts from a solid balm into an oil upon warming.

Full ingredients

Guru Score

78%

Yay

15 experts · Strong agreement
15Gurus
13Yay
1Mixed
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What they liked

  • Fragrance-free and rinses clean
  • Gentle on the skin barrier
  • Generous size, good value

What they flagged

  • May leave a slight film on skin
  • Can clog pores with daily, constant use

What the gurus are saying

This balm earns consistent praise for melting away heavy makeup and sunscreen without stripping the skin barrier, and most gurus count it among their top picks for a first cleanse. It's fragrance-free, reasonably priced, and uses skin-friendly oils like safflower seed oil and caprylic triglycerides. The main caveat: a few people found it left a slight film or caused breakouts with daily use, so those with sensitive or acne-prone skin may want to patch-test first or save it for occasional makeup-heavy days rather than daily use. Many gurus suggest following it with a second, water-based cleanser to ensure everything rinses away completely.
Synthesized from 15 expert reviews · most recent take August 2026

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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"Clinique makes a Take the Day Off Balm, which I love, though I'm out of it right now. [...] It's a cleansing oil that gets everything, including waterproof mascara, to slide off your face as the first step of a double cleanse."
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"Clinique makes a great Take The Day Off balm. I used to use that a lot and then I would follow it by a regular cleanser like the Phisoderm or the Cetaphil, those kind of fragrance-free clean cleansers. You want to make sure you get everything off."
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"Clinique makes a Take the Day Off Balm, which I love, though I'm out of it right now. [...] It's a cleansing oil that gets everything, including waterproof mascara, to slide off your face as the first step of a double cleanse."
Mixed
"Clinique's Take the Day Off balm is iconic. It's very nice. It's very simple. It's fragrance-free and it gets the job done. [...] This has safflower seed oil, ethexel palmitate, and a few emulsifiers. It melts down makeup and sunscreen and rinses clean. It's very basic. It's more of a cosmetically elegant kind of feeling. It's nice. A little bit pricey."
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"Clinique's Take the Day Off balm is iconic. It's very nice. It's very simple. It's fragrance-free and it gets the job done. [...] This has safflower seed oil, ethexel palmitate, and a few emulsifiers. It melts down makeup and sunscreen and rinses clean. It's very basic. It's more of a cosmetically elegant kind of feeling. It's nice. A little bit pricey."
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"It's a good cleansing balm. It's 29 pounds for 125 milliliters or 11 pounds for a 13 mil tiny travel size, and for me it's just not superior in any way, formulation-wise or anything like that, for it to cost 29 pounds when you can get cleansing balms that are the same, very generic feeling, you know, they go on the skin feeling a little bit plasticky, turn into an oil, you can get them for even more than half the price of the Clinique Take the Day Off. There's nothing in here that makes me think, wow, this is a cleansing balm worth paying more for or deserving of more attention than more affordable ones. It works, it does what it needs to do, but it's just very pricey for what it is. I just think there are much cheaper alternatives. It's very average."
Yay
"Clinique makes a really good one, but still it's hard to hold a flame to the pharmacy one which just works so well."
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"Clinique's is in a big purple container for a cleansing balm. I use that a lot, it's huge, it's great. It's very gentle, I think it's fragrance free. I love the Clinique cleansing balm. It's probably in my top three cleansing balms, something I use a ton of and need more of at any given point."
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"The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is a lifesaver."
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"I'm going to shout out Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. This is your jumbo size cleansing balm and a hero product. So I mean today alone I'm going to be using this probably 10 times and it's great."
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"Clinique makes a really good one, but still it's hard to hold a flame to the pharmacy one which just works so well."
Yay
"I do like this, it's a very good balm cleanser, a fragrance free balm cleanser. For a while K Beauty has had arguably some better or at least competitive prices to the sale on this, but it's nice to know that we do have an option here in Clinique."
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"I do like this, it's a very good balm cleanser, a fragrance free balm cleanser. For a while K Beauty has had arguably some better or at least competitive prices to the sale on this, but it's nice to know that we do have an option here in Clinique."
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"Cleansing balms are wonderful if you've never tried them. Clinique is a fully fragrance free brand and this is a fragrance free way to remove your makeup and sunscreen. It's not my absolute favorite so I won't repurchase it, but a lot of people do love it."
Yay
"I love the Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. It's a great makeup removing cleansing balm. I love it for the first step of my skincare routine at night that gently removes everything without stripping your skin barrier at the same time. When you rinse it off it leaves minimal residue."
Yay
"Clinique's Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is [...] probably okay to get here. It's $19.99, pretty good deal. I'd get the travel one though because that's kind of a more convenient thing to have in your travel bag as a cleansing balm, and it can be hard to find cleansing balms that are small."
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"Clinique's Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is [...] probably okay to get here. It's $19.99, pretty good deal. I'd get the travel one though because that's kind of a more convenient thing to have in your travel bag as a cleansing balm, and it can be hard to find cleansing balms that are small."
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"Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is a classic cleansing balm recommendation that is a really good product and continues to be a standout from this brand. It's no nonsense, free of fragrance, just a real simple ingredient list with nothing over the top. It's a very effective cleansing balm with a lightweight consistency that spreads on the surface really easily, melts over the skin breaking up that cosmetic film, and then nicely emulsifies and rinses off."
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"I have been removing my makeup with the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. This is a really good cleansing balm, a little on the pricey side although they do have sales from time to time."
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"This has to be the best one. It's free of fragrance, it's a pleasant experience to use, it glides on the skin surface very easily. It has emulsifiers in it which will allow the product to rinse off carrying away that makeup residue with it, and it really is nice to use, especially for breaking up mascara, for breaking up eye makeup, and also for helping to facilitate removal of water resistant sunscreen. I use it as part of a double cleanse. [...] I happen to really enjoy using a cleansing balm, cleansing oil. I find that they are nice and gentle, especially on the eyelashes, they rinse off easily, they just really help carry away the makeup just more efficiently in my experience. [...] This is just a product that is very good at doing what it's meant to do and I find helpful."
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"I have been using the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm as the first step in the double cleanse [...] and I love this, it's a great option. [...] The thing I like about cleansing balms and cleansing oils is that it's a great way for people who have really sensitive irritated skin to take off their makeup without, you know, this doesn't sting. If you've got irritated skin going on or really a lot of sensitivity, this doesn't sting the way makeup removers can. [...] I like this, it's really gentle. I happen to think doing this whether it be a balm or an oil has made a huge difference for me over the years in my eyelashes like I'm not spending time rubbing."
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"I've been using the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. The product comes out like a lotion almost. It has cocamidopropyl betaine, which is a surfactant, so you don't want to leave it on indefinitely, but it makes it work so well. I get [...] it on my skin, do my hair [...] shampooing and rinse it out, and then at that point it's been on the skin for a good bit of time, and I rinse it off. The reason I found it work so well doing it this way is that unlike a body wash in a washcloth with no lather that falls on the shower floor and gets stuck there, this actually stays with you."
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"Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is probably one of my favorite Clinique products. I've been using it lately in the double cleanse [...] pretty much all summer. It's really great at removing cosmetic residue, breaking up mascara, water resistant sunscreen, and it rinses off easily. I follow it up with a mild cleanser to wash my face and it works out quite well. It lasts a very long time. I still have quite a bit left and I've been using it every day for months and months now. It is fragrance free."
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"I finished Clinique's Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm recently, entire jar, and I'm coming back to it now. [...] This is such an underrated cleansing balm. The price is great, it's free of fragrance, it's a nice experience to use. It creates like a silky creamy lather to melt away your makeup and sunscreen, and then it rinses off easily. You get a little bit of your gentle cleanser to actually wash your face properly. It is wonderful."
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"It works well, it's great for taking off water resistant sunscreen and makeup. It doesn't have any fragrance, rinses off easily, and emulsifies well with a little bit of water after you've rubbed it all over your face. I use a mild cleanser after rubbing this all over the face to really ensure I get everything off, but it works quite well. I don't ordinarily buy this because it is pricey and there's so many more affordable alternatives these days."
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"I love the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm, it is quite good."
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"The Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm by Clinique is pretty good, it's one of the first cleansing balms I think I ever really tried out."
Yay
"I use Clinique Take The Day Off, [...] that's the best thing for that kind of stage makeup. It's grease, it really is."
Yay
"This one from Clinique is a great one. Lots of people use this cleansing balm, it's a really good one. Warm that up, don't put it directly onto your eyelashes and onto your eye makeup. Warm it up, turn it into an oil and you're going to get so much more out of that. I [...] like products that don't dry me out while they're removing whatever makeup I had on during the day, and I find that this cleansing balm really does the job there. [...] Work that into a beautiful oil, [...] massage it onto your face and you won't even need to use a washcloth."
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"I love the Clinique Take The Day Off, it is a cleansing balm, it's very straightforward. It is such a good price, it is fragrance free, it works, it rinses well, it is solid, definitely solid. A cleansing balm starts off almost like a waxy texture and it melts into an oil, and that is the true benefit of a cleansing balm. You scoop out your cleansing balm, warm it into your hand to turn it into an oil, then rub it onto your face. You're going to use even less than you would think while you're massaging it onto your skin."
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"I've been using this for a long time. This is great if you have heavy makeup. This gets off waterproof mascara and it should be the first step in your double cleansing routine. Take the Day Off from Clinique is one of the OGs of the cleansing balms. It's fragrance free, it does the job, and honestly I think it's one of the most affordable even compared to some of the ones that seemed cheaper in drugstores."
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"This one from Clinique is a great one. Lots of people use this cleansing balm, it's a really good one. Warm that up, don't put it directly onto your eyelashes and onto your eye makeup. Warm it up, turn it into an oil and you're going to get so much more out of that. I [...] like products that don't dry me out while they're removing whatever makeup I had on during the day, and I find that this cleansing balm really does the job there. [...] Work that into a beautiful oil, [...] massage it onto your face and you won't even need to use a washcloth."
Yay
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"Clinique, they are the expensive ones, [...] are there for removing tan."
Yay
"A lot of my patients actually like the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. They say it helps really remove makeup. [...] The Clinique cleansing balm has got some interesting ingredients: you've got safflower seed oil, caprylic triglycerides which are great for the skin barrier, and some vitamin E as well. [...] So essentially it's just a fatty acid cleanser that helps with the skin barrier. It's amazing that it was able to take off a lot of heavy makeup."
Yay
"Clinique's Take The Day Off is a classic I love."
Yay
"I've been going on and on about Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm on this channel like ever since I can remember, even before I started YouTube I had already started using this product. I've been using this particular formula for years. It's a white wax, you know, you use it, you apply it on your face, it just dissolves your makeup off."
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"I actually get by with using the Clinique cleansing balm because I wasn't using it back to back all the time. [...] I don't wear makeup [...] every day. I went through a phase last year where I had to wear makeup every day, and I was breaking out in areas where I don't typically break out, and then I realized that the cause was actually the Clinique cleansing balm. So I think if you use it occasionally, you're good. If you use it constantly every day, then it could clog your pores."
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"I've been going on and on about Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm on this channel like ever since I can remember, even before I started YouTube I had already started using this product. I've been using this particular formula for years. It's a white wax, you know, you use it, you apply it on your face, it just dissolves your makeup off."
Yay
"If I have some waterproof mascara on then I like to use a little bit of the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. I use that over my eyes melt that out and then go ahead and use a cleanser. So I like to double cleanse when I'm using some makeup."
Nay
"The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is a really popular cleansing balm, but it's not personally my favorite because I don't particularly like the use of polyethylene, even though I think they've lowered the concentration of it in this formula. It also uses ethyl hexyl palmitate and safflower seed oil. Personally on me it leaves a little bit of a film on my skin, and other people I've talked to who've used it feel the same. I kind of prefer cleansing balms that have a more oil based, nourishing formula. It's very popular and a typical recommended introductory cleansing balm, so I'm not surprised it made the list."
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"The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is a really popular cleansing balm, but it's not personally my favorite because I don't particularly like the use of polyethylene, even though I think they've lowered the concentration of it in this formula. It also uses ethyl hexyl palmitate and safflower seed oil. Personally on me it leaves a little bit of a film on my skin, and other people I've talked to who've used it feel the same. I kind of prefer cleansing balms that have a more oil based, nourishing formula. It's very popular and a typical recommended introductory cleansing balm, so I'm not surprised it made the list."
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"I'm a huge fan of cleansing balms, they're super luxurious and really nice to use, and this one does have good ingredients and does a great job of removing makeup and it's really gentle on the skin, so from a skin perspective I'm not bothered by it. I wasn't comfortable with the level of polyethylene it includes though, which is essentially a form of plastic, and there's iffy data on whether it could negatively affect marine wildlife when it goes down the drain, so that's an ingredient I personally choose to avoid."
Yay
"I've been using the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm for years. I did a video years ago comparing all the different cleansers for removing makeup, sunscreen and waterproof mascara, and Clinique cleansing balm was the best as far as getting all those things off, and it doesn't irritate your skin. It's so gentle, there's no pulling or tugging at your skin like you get with wipes. It comes in a nice big jumbo tub, which is what they have in the Nordstrom sale."
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"My favorite cleansing balm has been the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm for years. [...] This balm takes off my waterproof eyeliner, my tubing mascara, all my tenacious sunscreen and makeup in one step."
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"One thing that I love getting at Sephora always is my Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. [...] This is by far the best cleansing balm ever, hands down. Removes all your makeup, no matter what it is. If it's tenacious waterproof sunscreen, if it's waterproof eyeliner, waterproof mascara."
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"For that I'll usually use Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. I just take a scoop of one of these and I rub it into my dry face then I give that a splash with water then I rub my Wonder cloth around my face that removes more of the makeup and more of the dirt and more of the sunscreen rinse this and everything rinses right off the Wonder cloth."
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"I usually use my Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. I just rub it right into my dry skin, rub it right into the base of my lashes, go underneath. Everything comes out nice and clean. I love them."
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"Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is my favorite first-step cleanser. It's an oil-based balm that you just rub into your dry skin and it removes all your most stubborn makeup, your most stubborn skin care, your most stubborn tinted sunscreen. No matter what you want to get off, this will get it off quickly and easily."
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"I love this. I work it into my dry skin, I put it right on top of the makeup and this really breaks up all the makeup, it breaks up the sunscreen. Then I splash my face with water and that emulsifies the oil and most of the makeup runs down the drain."
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"Another great deal is the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. You guys know that has been my favorite for years. And they have the big tub for $36 in the sale. So, I'm going to be grabbing one of those."
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"This is the best cleansing balm for removing your makeup. There's no harsh rubbing or scrubbing or tugging at your skin because it's so slippery it just slips around, so you're actually doing your face a favor and you're helping your skin to look younger by not tugging at your skin. I definitely will be purchasing another one of these."
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"Fragrance free, it contains ceramides and niacinamide so it's got everything that I'm looking for in a facial cleanser. It's a little bit thicker than the Derma e that I was using before, so when I go to wash my face with it, it's not just like running through my fingers and disappearing. It's very soothing, it's very mild, it doesn't burn my eyes or anything. My favorite is still the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm for the first step in my double cleanse with the Wonder Cloth, but this for the second step I love, or on days where I'm just wearing sunscreen and I don't even put on mascara, this is getting off my sunscreen really really well with the Wonder Cloth."
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"The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm has been my ultimate favorite for a lot of years now. I really love this, I looked in my cabinet and I have two backups of this, that's how much I love it. I just take a scoop and I rub it onto my dry skin, I rub it into the base of my lashes to get my mascara off, my waterproof eyeliner. It never stings or burns my eyes. Then I splash that with water, the water emulsifies with the oil balm and then all my makeup, all my sunscreen runs right down the drain."
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"This one is my all-time favorite, the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. When I'm washing my face, I don't like a lot of tugging and pulling to get like my waterproof eye makeup, mascara, and eyeliner off. And with an oil-based balm, you can rub it in and it has so much slip to it that it doesn't yank your skin around."
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"I use the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. I find that using an oil-based cleansing balm is really the gentlest way to get off all your makeup, all your tenacious sunscreen, even your waterproof mascara, eyeliner. It comes off so quickly and easily with this. I've tried a ton of them. There are some other ones that I do like almost as much as this, but this is one that I always go back to. So, I just take a glob of this and I rub it into my dry skin with all the makeup. It melts it right away."
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"This is my favorite way to remove my makeup. I do a double cleanse and this is the first step in it, and I love it that they sell it in this whopper of a jar because it means less repurchasing. With a smaller jar I find that I go through them fairly quickly and I have to be buying one every 3 months or so, whereas this guy will last me a good 6 months."
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"The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is just so nice to use. It doesn't take a lot and you just rub it into your dry skin. Your makeup dries, it makes the makeup just melt right away. Then you just splash it with water, give it a little rub, and all the makeup just runs right down the drain. This is a really good one. I have repurchased this and bought the larger size tub."
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"This is my favorite facial cleanser that removes all my makeup. It's an oil based balm, you rub it into your dry face and it dissolves waterproof eyeliner, waterproof mascara, all your foundation, even tenacious sunscreen that you can't get off."
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"I've been using the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm for years. I did a video years ago comparing all the different cleansers for removing makeup, sunscreen and waterproof mascara, and Clinique cleansing balm was the best as far as getting all those things off, and it doesn't irritate your skin. It's so gentle, there's no pulling or tugging at your skin like you get with wipes. It comes in a nice big jumbo tub, which is what they have in the Nordstrom sale."
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"For my evening cleanse when I need to take off makeup I am still using the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm this is still my number 1 cleansing balm for removing makeup it works so well hands down the best I've ever tried."
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"The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is my favorite oil balm cleanser for getting my makeup off and my tenacious sunscreen and I love it. It now comes in this whopper of a 6.7 ounce tub and it's much more economical than buying the smaller tubs. This is completely empty so I need another one. I love it. It just breaks up all my makeup so quickly and easily. It's so soothing on the skin, works the best, takes away makeup the best, never have residue around my eyes. I don't have to use a separate eye makeup remover around my eyes, even with my waterproof mascara and my waterproof eyeliner. It just takes it all off first time, easy peasy. It saves you from having to buy a dedicated eye makeup remover and it keeps you from rubbing your eyes so much. This is so slippery that even though I do rub it into the base of my lashes and everything, I'm not tugging on my skin like you do when you put those eye makeup removers onto a cotton round. This is so much better for your skin."
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"My favorite is the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. It's a balm cleanser you use it the same way—rub it into dry skin, splash it with water to emulsify, and everything runs down the drain."
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"I also love the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. This is a little bit greasier feeling so I feel like for the drier winter months this is definitely a better way to go."
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"And then, of course, I've emptied one of these, the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. This is the first step in my two-step double cleanse. Um this is like an oil-based balm. You just take it and you rub it into your dry skin, and it just dissolves all your waterproof mascara and eyeliner, all your makeup, all your really stubborn sunscreen that you can't get off. This is how you get it off. Then I just give it a rub with my wonder cloth or my towel orbital cleanser, and it just whisks everything away. You splash it with water, and you see all that makeup, all that sunscreen just run right down the drain. This is awesome. I love it."
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"I do a double cleanse. The first cleanse is an oil-based balm, I use the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. I rub it into my dry skin, it removes makeup and breaks up waterproof mascara and eyeliner really well."
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"I've been using the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm for ever and I think it is the best. Oil is the best thing for removing your water resistant sunscreen."
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"Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is the cleansing balm I use for my first cleanse. It's an oil-based cleansing balm that really gets off the waterproof eyeliner, the waterproof mascara, anything that you have on your face. If it's been a heavy makeup day this will take it right off."
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"If I am wearing makeup, then the cleanser I use is the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. I didn't really discover anything like super duper fabulous that really makes me want to switch away from this this year."
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"I always grab these little minis of the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. They have these everywhere and I just love them because you can just buy it once and save it and then refill it out of your big tub when you're going on a trip and this will last me for a two week trip. So I always take that along and refill it. This is how I get off my tenacious sunscreen or any waterproof eyeliner, waterproof mascara. This will get it right off so I love to bring that on a trip."
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"In skincare, something that I always get is my Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. This is my holy grail cleansing balm. I'm going to pick up another one of these. I always like to stock up on these. I tend to go through them pretty quickly."
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"My favorite makeup removing product is the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm, and I use it as the first step in my double cleanse routine."
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"The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is absolutely hands down the best cleansing balm, and it comes in this whopper size now which I love. To get a couple of those at 20 percent off and just tuck them away, it will last me the entire year if I get like two of them, and to get them at a savings is awesome."
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"This is what I use for the first cleanse of my double cleanse. This is like my makeup remover. It's oil-based. I've tried so many different balm-based, oil-based makeup removers, and this one is by far my favorite, has been for years. I love the stuff. Did purchase another one, and I ran out. I thought I had an extra one stockpiled because I usually buy like two every time there's a Sephora sale or an Ulta 20 off, but I didn't last time, so I actually had to run up to Ulta to get it so I could get my makeup off my face that night. It's a good thing there's an Ulta nearby. I was able to go and pick this up. Absolutely love that."
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"This is my absolute favorite oil cleanser for removing makeup. I find it's the best at removing makeup compared to others I've used. I just put it on dry skin and can rub it right at the base of my lashes to remove all my waterproof mascara or eyeliner. It never stings my eyes, never burns, doesn't irritate my skin. It's so mild and gentle, yet it removes makeup so well. You splash it with water and all the makeup runs down the drain."
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"I use an oil-based cleanse as a double cleanse and I have to say that oil-based cleanser really takes off sunscreen and dissolves it. I usually use Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm and I just put some in my hands and when I'm rubbing it around my face to remove my makeup and my sunscreen I rub it down my neck and onto my chest."
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"For my first cleanse, I use the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm, which is an oil-based cleanser. I used to use makeup wipes and eye makeup remover, but my research led me to the idea that cleaning your skin gently is the way to go. If you have to wash twice rather than using harsh detergents or things that pull at your skin or strip it, it's better to be gentle. This cleanser is so effective at breaking up makeup, lipstick, and eye makeup, and it's gentle enough that it doesn't bother my eyes even when I use it right at the base of my lashes."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm?

A fragrance-free cleansing balm designed to remove makeup, sunscreen, and impurities as the first step of a skincare routine. It melts from a solid balm into an oil upon warming.

Is Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm worth it?

Mostly yes. 13 of the 15 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 78%.

What is Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm's Guru Score?

Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm holds a Guru Score of 78%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 15 expert reviewers we have collected.

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