Oat Cleansing Balm.

"I bought the new Oat Cleansing Balm and tried it, and it's just as good as the original, so good, I missed that product so much. They said they'd ironed out the packaging problem, the separation problem and the graininess that people reported with the original. A couple of weeks in it started separating again and feeling grainy again. I'll give them a bit of grace on the separation because of the heat wave, oil based cleansers aren't designed to stabilize against that kind of heat, but the grittiness is a fundamental stability problem they didn't really address the first time around. I'm not personally that livid about it, but I just won't repurchase it because I don't like the graininess."

"It didn't feel right around the eyes. The website will advise you to stay clear of the eyes. I don't think it's dangerous for use around the eyes, but I don't think it is meant to remove eye makeup, just the regular face makeup, which is why I don't usually use it as a first step. And when you look at The Inkey Way to double cleanse, it is actually listed as second cleanser after using The Inkey List Oat Cleansing Balm as first cleanse to really remove every trace of makeup and then go in with a second cleanse afterwards. And I think for that it works really fine. So either for that or as a morning cleanse is how I prefer to use it. Looking at the ingredients, you have glycerin as humectant which is a very good humectant but probably not the most effective in a wash-off product, and you also have betaine made from sugar beet which pulls in water as well. Same here, it gets washed off, so I'm not sure how much hydrating effect it will have on the skin. Then there's shea butter which has emollient properties, some rice bran oil which is also good for this protective layer, and inulin. Inulin is said to be food for the good skin bacteria, so promoting a healthy skin microbiome. If you've seen my videos on the skin microbiome, you know that there is no definition of what a good skin microbiome is, so I can't say for sure if inulin is helpful, but it is a so-called probiotic. All in all, not a very exciting ingredient list."

"If you've just got generally good skin on the High Street, the probably cheapest and the most safest thing to use is the oat blend in balm from The INKEY List. Fantastic because oat, it's one of the properties of oat is to help with a Skin Barrier, but this gives a good clean and a lot of patients love this that come to my clinic so it's really nice to use if you do wear a little bit of makeup and you don't have much time."

"The Inkey List Oat Cleansing Balm contains oats so this is very calming and soothing to the skin. It's great for all skin types including those that have sensitive skin and it also is quite moisturizing as well. I never use this as that traditional cleanser; I just use this to remove makeup and sunscreen and then of course as a face mask. This is really gentle, calming, and soothing, and you're getting 150 mls of product."

"I changed my mind on it like a hundred times. The first 10 times I tried it I hated it, and then I end up using it on dry skin and I liked it a little bit more, because the ingredients say to apply it on a damp face and neck, but this stuff is so thick and Vaseline-like, and when you apply it on something that's wet it just feels like you're trying to mix oil and water and it doesn't do anything. And then I applied it to dry skin, it seemed a little bit better, but it's still always left like a residue feeling. In the long run, I don't like it. There's better cleansers that I don't feel like leave a residue and they're nicer and do a better job taking makeup off, and things like that. But this one will still have a ton of fans, and there's nothing wrong with that."

"For the first step of cleansing off makeup, I recommend the INKEY List Oat Cleansing Balm. I love it because one of the main ingredients is oat kernel, which is really great for moisturizing and hydrating the skin, and there's also colloidal oatmeal, which helps reduce any irritation that could happen from makeup. I really like this product, it's under ten dollars, and it's just an all around amazing product that works for any skin type."

"The Inkey List has many excellent skincare products and they're actually pretty affordable brand at baseline, especially for Sephora. One of my favorites is actually their Oat Cleansing Balm. Use it to dissolve makeup, water resistant sunscreen. It has emulsifiers in it so that when you come in with a little bit of water and then a mild cleanser, it all just rinses away. It's very effective, gentle around the eyes. It kind of has an odd odor to it. It's fragrance-free but it has oat in it, so it's kind of like if you've ever bathed in colloidal oatmeal, you know that smell, that aroma. A lot of people have told me over the years they don't like the way it smells, but many of you have discovered it and that is like your holy grail cleansing balm. It's great, affordable at baseline, and if you can save, why not add to cart."

"Not for me, I can't use this. It's just so tough to use. You have to have so much strength in order to get this out of the tube. It's just so annoying to use. And it is a good product if you don't mind the kind of user experience of it. It's got three percent oat kernel oil which is rich in ceramides and one percent colloidal oatmeal to reduce redness and soothe your skin. That's kind of its main selling point. It really is like a solidified oil. It's kind of like a cleansing balm that breaks down into oil really easily, but it's kind of like when you smell that cleansing balm it smells like an oil. It's really hard to describe. It's just not nice to use. It's such a pain. Paula's Choice have a great cleansing balm in a tube and that I really really love and would recommend over this one."

"The Inky List Oat Cleansing Balm is much less expensive than Clinique at five ounces for $10.99 compared to Clinique's $36 for 3.8 ounces. It removed all of my face makeup. The only thing it didn't get off completely was my waterproof eyeliner and waterproof mascara, but with my double cleanse those came off with my second cleanse, so by the time I was done with my double cleanse I had almost as much makeup off my face as when I use Clinique. It was really soothing and really nice to use, so if the Clinique is just always out of range as far as price, this is a really good one to try."

"The INKEY List Oat Cleansing Balm is one of my favorite cleansing balms. A cleansing balm is really your secret weapon to carefully remove makeup and waterproof sunscreen from your skin with a very gentle massage technique that helps it just lift right up off the skin without needing to use any harsh abrasive makeup wipes or eye makeup remover that can pull and tug the skin or irritate the eyes and the skin. This one is very gentle on the skin, really nourishing and hydrating to our skin barrier, all while doing the heaviest work of the entire cleansing method and getting this oil-based sticky makeup and skincare products out of the crevices of our skin and off our skin, especially waterproof makeup."