Clean & Clear Essentials Self Foam Facial Wash Review

I used this for about 2 years during highschool and regret it so much. It was so drying and left my skin feeling stripped of every natural oil. My face would feel so tight after use and I was naive thinking it was taking away the oil so I wouldn't get pimples. I didn't realise how drying and harsh it was until I tried a range of other products. Unfortunately I would rather not cleanse my face than ever use this product again - I don't recommend this at all :(

My skin can be very fussy sometimes and is all over the show, I need something gentle but effective which isn't going to upset my face as it is sensitive.

I like foam cleansers, this has a pump which I think everything should have. It foams up nicely but it makes my face feel tingly and so dry and tight, so for my skin it was a big no no.

I suggest if you have sensitive skin to perhaps stay away from this as it is too harsh and strips the skin quite badly.  There are definitely much more gentle foam cleaners out there.

I have combination skin and after using this my skin felt so dry and tight, i dont know what it means when it says "over drying" because that is literally what it did to my skin. I had to throw it out after using it three times because my skin could not handle it and i had to end up using twice as much moisturiser for my skin to even begin to feel normal again.

While it may have prevented some outbreaks, it couldn't fight them all. Not a very powerful face wash, I must say. And although I felt clean after using it, that's only because my face felt awfully tight. Perhaps it's not the best for combination type skin. I did enjoy the foam, however, because it's easier to spread than a gel etc. and washes off better.

I liked this product in that it definitely cleaned away all traces of oil from my face. But it also left it feeling stripped dry and tight. To be honest I don't really think it helped my acne at all as it just exacerbated the oil production. I have found gentler creamery products have been much better for my skin.

Unfortunately I did not have a good experience with this product. I wouldn't say I have sensitive skin - very few products irritate me - but this gave me chemical burns on my chin and cheeks, next to my nose! The rest of my face felt super dry. It's a very harsh formula that smells very heavily of chemicals. No pleasant cover-up scent here! Overall not a recommended product and I am now wary of the entire Clear & Clear line.

So a few years back when i was trying to get into a habit of cleaning my skin, i saw this on the supermarket shelf and decided to give it a try. I only ever used it once and then the practically full bottle just sat in the bathroom unused. Though this product was easy to apply because of the foam and it was easy to massage into my skin, it left it feeling very dry, itchy and stripped, i even broke out into a bit of a rash. I would reccomend it more for people whos skin doesnt react to harsh products but i still think there is alot more better and honest products on the market.

So I have normal-(slightly) dry skin and this irritated it so much! Luckily I didn't use it much because I only got it in a little sample size, but it dried my skin out so much, made it go red and a bit flaky from irritation and, if anything, made my blemishes worse because it was drying them out :(

The worst part is that although it made my skin terrible, it didn't even do a good job of removing make up or anything, like most other cleansers I have tried are able to do.

Maybe if you had a lot of oil in your skin and didn't wear make up, or cleaned your make up off with something else first, this would work for you, but I absolutely hated it.

I wasn't to impressed with this foaming acne wash, as it really dried out my skin and left it quite tight and patchy. Although it was super easy to apply and the scent was lovely, not to mention it's affordable too, it just wasn't gentle enough to use. I used it for about four days so I could determine if it was the product or my night cream reacting to it. Alas it was the Clean and Clear foaming wash. Maybe my skin was to sensitive for some of the ingredients.