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Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser.

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser
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About this product

A gentle, hydrating cream cleanser with ceramides and niacinamide, made to cleanse normal to dry, sensitive skin without stripping it.

Best for

Dry skinSensitive skin
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The Guru Index verdict

75%

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#14 in Best Cleansers

What the gurus are saying

Gurus overwhelmingly praise this cleanser for its gentle, non-stripping formula and barrier-supportive ingredients. It's consistently recommended for sensitive skin, damaged barriers, and those using actives like retinoids and exfoliating acids. The creamy texture and lack of tightness after cleansing are recurring highlights. One reviewer reported stinging and burning after initial use, but this is an outlier in an otherwise unanimously positive consensus.
Synthesized from 11 expert reviews

Key actives & flags

NiacinamideVitamin ECeramidesFragrance-freeAlcohol-free

Full ingredients

Aqua /​ Water /​ Eau (La Roche-Posay Prebiotic Thermal Water), Glycerin, Pentaerythrityl Tetraethylhexanoate, Propylene Glycol, Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate, Polysorbate 60, Ceramide Np, Niacinamide, Sodium Chloride, Coco-Betaine, Disodium Edta, Caprylyl Glycol, Panthenol, T-Butyl Alcohol, Tocopherol

Every take, in full

What the gurus are saying.

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"This is a fragrance-free creamy cleanser that I actually used as the first step in the double cleanse. You can come on a dry face with this just like you would a cleansing oil and it actually spreads really easily over the surface of the skin. It breaks up that cosmetic residue and then you hop in the shower and use a gentle cleanser to wash your face properly. Works wonderfully. It's not as stripping and it's like you're rubbing a moisturizer on and then you rinse it off. You don't have to get the skin wet before using this. I really ended up enjoying using it in that way quite a bit."
Approved
"A gentle cleanser, whether that's like Prequel cleanser or the Cetaphil hydrating cleanser or the La Roche-Posay gentle cleanser, and then following that with what I would consider a bland moisturizer, a moisturizer that does not have active ingredients in it."
Approved
"The La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser is a really milky, creamy, not foaming cleanser. It does remove all your daily dirt, oil, and sunscreen without stripping your skin. It's completely fragrance-free, soap free, and supports a healthy moisture barrier and leaves your skin feeling really soft, comfortable, not really tight and dry. It works really well alongside active routines, including your retinoids and exfoliating acids. The key ingredients here are the ceramides, niacinamide, glycerin, and of course the La Roche-Posay prebiotic thermal water."
All 3 takes from Dr. Aleksandra Brown
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"This is a milky non-foaming cleanser. Really creamy. Removes daily dirt, oil, sunscreen without stripping. It's completely fragrance-free, soap free. Helps support your skin barrier. It leaves your skin really nice and soft and comfortable. Never tight. There is no squeaky feeling afterwards. This cleanser plays really well with your actives. If you're going to switch to a cleanser that you want to use later on when you reintroduce your actives, this is a really good one. Once you reintroduce your retinoids, your AHAs and BHAs, this cleanser is going to help repair your barrier to allow you to use those actives. The key ingredients here are the ceramides, the niacinamide, glycerin, and the thermal prebiotic water."
The Best Drugstore Skincare for Mature Skin, According to a Derm
"The La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser is a really milky, creamy, not foaming cleanser. It does remove all your daily dirt, oil, and sunscreen without stripping your skin. It's completely fragrance-free, soap free, and supports a healthy moisture barrier and leaves your skin feeling really soft, comfortable, not really tight and dry. It works really well alongside active routines, including your retinoids and exfoliating acids. The key ingredients here are the ceramides, niacinamide, glycerin, and of course the La Roche-Posay prebiotic thermal water."
Sensitive Skin Skincare Routine with the Best Drugstore Products | Derm Approved
"The La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser is a milky non-foaming cleanser that gently removes dirt and sunscreen while supporting your skin's barrier. Doesn't leave your skin feeling dry or tight at all. It does contain ceramides and niacinamide and La Roche-Posay prebiotic thermal water. It's very similar to Cetaphil, and I will often exchange this for my kids in their bathtub. I love it for head to toe cleansing."
Approved
"The La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Cleanser is a gentle one that I feel like does a pretty good job at removing the debris from overnight. If you wear a lot of heavy makeup and mascara, it's not going to do such a good job, so this is why I recommend using it in the morning or as the second step for those who double cleanse. For people who just have moisturizers on from overnight or like nonwater resistant sunscreen, I do feel this does a pretty decent job. It's a really nice creamy one that's gentle but still effective at removing the basics. It's got ceramides, glycerin, niacinamide, and Thermal Spring Water, so all wonderful ingredients to kind of hydrate and support your skin barrier that's often disrupted with cleansing."
All 2 takes from Dr. Jenny Liu
Winter Skin Survival Guide from a Derm | Dr. Jenny Liu
"The La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Cleanser is a gentle one that I feel like does a pretty good job at removing the debris from overnight. If you wear a lot of heavy makeup and mascara, it's not going to do such a good job, so this is why I recommend using it in the morning or as the second step for those who double cleanse. For people who just have moisturizers on from overnight or like nonwater resistant sunscreen, I do feel this does a pretty decent job. It's a really nice creamy one that's gentle but still effective at removing the basics. It's got ceramides, glycerin, niacinamide, and Thermal Spring Water, so all wonderful ingredients to kind of hydrate and support your skin barrier that's often disrupted with cleansing."
Your Skin After 40: A Derm’s Guide to Menopause & Perimenopause Skincare | Dr. Jenny Liu
"La Roche-Posay's hydrating cleanser helps to remove kind of buildup and sebum that our skin has accumulated overnight but without stripping your skin barrier. It's creamy. It's going to cleanse well but it's not going to make your skin feel really tight and irritated. It contains ceramides, glycerin, niacinamide and La Roche-Posay thermal spring water."
Approved
"I featured the La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser in my winter skincare video. And spoiler alert, I'm still using it. It's milky, creamy, non-foaming, fragrance-free, and packed with niacinamide, ceramides, and panthenol to support hydration and that healthy skin barrier."
All 3 takes from Tea with MD
Winter Skincare Swaps: How to Transition Your Routine for Dry, Cold Weather
"I featured the La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser in my winter skincare video. And spoiler alert, I'm still using it. It's milky, creamy, non-foaming, fragrance-free, and packed with niacinamide, ceramides, and panthenol to support hydration and that healthy skin barrier."
Dermatologist's Pregnancy Safe Skincare Routine
"The other cleanser that I've been reaching for a lot is the La Roche-Posay Toleriane hydrating cleanser and this is made for sensitive skin. This one contains ceramide 3 as well as LRP Prebiotic thermal water which has these soothing antioxidant hydrating properties. It also has glycerin which is a nice humectant and niacinamide which is another antioxidant and can also help brighten. I've been using this one for a really long time as well. It's great for sensitive skin. It never triggers any of my rosacea or my redness. In fact it helps to calm it down and it never causes any stinging or burning."
SIMPLE ACCUTANE SKINCARE ROUTINE | Dr. Joyce Dermatologist
"I love using this for Accutane patients, acne patients, and rosacea patients, as well as anyone who has a damaged skin barrier from using maybe too many actives. This one contains ceramides, niacinamide, which is an antioxidant and can help with brightening some dark acne marks, and it also has the La Roche-Posay Prebiotic Thermal Water. It comes out like a moisturizing gel cream cleanser. I really like the texture, and whenever my skin is really sensitive or irritated, this is my go-to."
Approved
"La Roche-Posay's hydrating cleanser has niacinamide in it. The hydrating cleanser is more for dry skin types and has nice niacinamide in it, so I appreciate products with it mixed in."
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"I was so high on it the first month that I used it and now it's out already. One month into using this it started stinging and burning my face and every time I wash my face morning or night it would start to sting and burn with this."
Approved
"The La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Cleanser is really nice and non-drying, with a little bit of suds which is nice. It's a hydrating cleansing product for face and body, and you can use it for shaving your legs and stuff like that as well. It's unscented, but it does have lemon extract in it, which is a fragrance ingredient, so it's unscented but not fragrance-free because of that lemon extract. I've repurchased this one."
All 2 takes from No BS Beauty
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"This one's very gentle, it's very affordable, it comes in a giant bottle which is nice. In terms of ingredients, it's got a really short ingredient list: panthenol, vitamin E, and ceramide at the end of it. Super gentle cleansing ingredients and agents, and it does a pretty good job as a second cleanse or a morning cleanser, or if you're not wearing makeup it does a pretty good job with that. And it's super affordable."
Best Winter Body & Hand Care Products - Fragrance Free Moisturizers & Body Cleansers
"The La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Cleanser is really nice and non-drying, with a little bit of suds which is nice. It's a hydrating cleansing product for face and body, and you can use it for shaving your legs and stuff like that as well. It's unscented, but it does have lemon extract in it, which is a fragrance ingredient, so it's unscented but not fragrance-free because of that lemon extract. I've repurchased this one."
Approved
"This is amazing for removing your makeup, removing your sunscreen, and just cleansing your skin on an everyday basis. If you're looking for something that is extremely gentle, very moisturizing on the skin, but also something that is fragrance free, then this would be a great option. You are getting 400 mL of product, and all you need is basically one pump to cleanse your skin in the morning, one pump to remove your makeup and sunscreen. This is going to last you a really long time. It is super gentle and it doesn't burn my eyes when I'm trying to remove my mascara and my eye makeup. I've really been enjoying this."
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"Use ombrelease which will act as a primer this is a trick that a lot of makeup artists have used over the years it's a French moisturizer I do love the scent of it"
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