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Oct 10 PRODUCT REVIEW: THE INKEY LIST OAT CLEANSING BALM – BEST CLEANSING BALM FOR SENSITIVE SKIN

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THE INKEY LIST | OAT CLEANSING BALM

This product review was originally part of my blog article titled, The Best Cleansing Balms for Dry Skin, Oily Skin and Sensitive Skin. You can still catch the full piece here.

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I can’t help myself. I love cleansers! There’s just nothing more pampering than massaging the day off of your face and feeling entirely renewed. It’s truly akin to a sacred rite for me.

So I was understandably excited when The Inkey List introduced its new Oat Cleansing Balm — the most affordable of the four cleansing balms in my collection of faves, at just $9.99.

It’s also the most convenient as it doesn’t need to be scooped out of a tub! Trust me, there are times you want that. Like after a 10-hour trip to Connecticut and back. Or when I’ve been Netflix-and-chilling on the couch until late and barely have it in me to wash my face let alone stagger to the bed.

Inkey’s Oat Cleansing Balm is a thick, gooey, oily treat for the skin and a real pleasure to use.

There are many cleansing balms on the market. The most conventional of them are the semi-solids that come in tubs — including the K-Beauty icon Banila’s Clean It Zero and the Drunk Elephant Slaai Makeup-Melting Butter Cleanser. Another popular semi-solid cleansing balm is the popular Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. All of them are effective formulas, and all have brought me great pleasure at the bathroom sink basin.

But as pleasurable and effective as they are, they can be kind of a pain to use. I’ve often reached for one or the other and thought, ugh, I’m not in the mood to get out a spatula and scoop up a cleansing balm right now. So I go for something else, something more convenient like a cleansing oil.

Inkey solved my conundrum — or let’s just call it my all-day-on-the-couch lassitude. The Oat Cleansing Balm is just liquidy or runny enough to come out of a tube and not need to be scooped out of a cumbersome tub.

The first ingredient in Oat Cleansing Balm is Sweet Almond Oil; I imagine that comprising upwards of 65-70% of the formula.

There’s also a 3% concentration of nourishing Oat Kernel Oil, rich in cholesterol and sterols — fatty acids similar to those found in the skin’s own sebum. Plus, Inkey included one-percent Colloidal Oatmeal, a phenomenal active that helps reduce redness and calm irritation.

But I gotta say Inkey really nailed the texture. It melts instantly into your palms as you massage it onto dry skin. Oat Cleansing Balm is as convenient and easy to use as just about any other cleanser in my stash!

With its high level of skin-soothing extracts and lack of irritants, The Inkey List Oat Cleansing Balm is the best cleansing balm for sensitive skin.

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