PRODUCT REVIEW: LANEIGE CREAM SKIN MILK OIL CLEANSER – BEST MOISTURIZING CLEANSER, BEST CLEANSING MILK
Laneige | Cream Skin Milk Oil Cleanser
This review was originally part of my blog article titled, Skip Care And The Laneige Cream Skin Collection – Best Moisturizing Toner, Best Moisturizing Cleanser. You can catch the full piece here.
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And that brings me to the new Laneige Cream Skin Milk Oil Cleanser. Like Laneige’s Cream Skin Mist and Cream Skin Toner & Moisturizer, it’s a real pleasure to use.
It also has an awkward Konglish name, compounding the nouns milk and oil. If it were up to me, I would have named it Cream Skin Milky Cleansing Oil. But, alas, I wasn’t asked!
It is, in fact, very much like a milky cleansing oil would be — and it’s used in exactly the same fashion as a conventional cleansing oil. You dispense a few pumps of the Cream Skin Milk Oil Cleanser into dry palms and massage onto dry skin, just like a cleansing oil. Its sleek, velvety texture is wonderfully pampering and I like to massage it until I get bored — about 10 seconds. I believe its velvety-soft texture is derived from the Hydrogenated Polyisobutene in the formula, at ingredient number two and likely 10-15% of the formula.
According to the experts on the Paula’s Choice Research Team, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene is a “synthetic polymer used as a skin-softening agent and emollient. It has a rich, thick texture.”
As with the other Cream Skin formulas, there’s Meadowfoam Seed Oil, Green Tea Leaf Extract and White Leaf Tea Water, which Laneige says, “supports skin's moisture barrier while hydrating and soothing.”
There’s not much else that’s noteworthy about the Cream Skin Milk Oil Cleanser. Its uniqueness is in the formula texture, reminiscent of a not-so-common milky cleansing oil. It does have a pH 5.5 that helps to maintain skin’s own pH balance.
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The Ingredient List of the Laneige Cream Skin Toner & Moisturizer:
sii|h 0 0, Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil 
emo, 1,2-Hexanediol solv, Polyglyceryl- 10 Stearate emu, Glyceryl Stearate Citrate emo|emu, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate emu|surf, Inulin Lauryl Carbamate surf|emu, Glyceryl Caprylate emo|emu, Ethylhexylglycerin pres, Propanediol solv|h, Disodium EDTA chel|vc, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract aox|so, Tocopherol aox 0-3 0-3The Ingredient List of the Laneige Cream Skin Milk Oil Cleanser:
emo 0 0-2, Limnanthes Alba(Meadowfoam) Seed Oil emo, Xanthan Gum vc|emu|surf, Citric Acid buff, Caprylyl Glycol h|emo, Ethylhexylglycerin pres, Disodium EDTA chel|vc, Propanediol solv|h, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract aox|so, Butylene Glycol h|solv|vc 0 1, Glyceryl Caprylate emo|emu, Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate emu, Glycerin sii|h 0 0, Inulin Lauryl Carbamate surf|emu, Tocopherol aox 0-3 0-3The Ingredient List of the Laneige Cream Skin Mist:
sii|h 0 0, Meadowfoam Seed Oil emo, 1,2-Hexanediol solv, Polyglyceryl-10 Stearate emu, Glyceryl Stearate Citrate emo|emu, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate emu|surf, Inulin Lauryl Carbamate surf|emu, Glyceryl Ricinoleate emo, Ethylhexylglycerin pres, Propanediol solv|h, Disodium Iodide amic, Green Tea Extract aox|so, Tocopherol aox 0-3 0-3Hover the mouse over an ingredient for short explanation. Read more on INCIDecoder.
