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These are the best!!! No longer do you have to keep layering more and more powder throughout the day, the end result being a cakey looking face with the applicator in your pressed powder looking seriously gross. With these little papers, they take off the oil. All the oil. Completely. Then if you want to, you can apply powder and believe me, applying powder to a clean, non oily face works so much better than powder applied over oil. Update: I like Walgreen’s “Perfection” brand oil absorbing sheets a lot better. They are bigger and the package they come isn’t crappy like Clean and Clear’s.

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Perfection. I have been using this face wash for since it came out, and I absolutely love it. It removes makeup, takes off dirt and oil, rinses cleanly, and it still leaves your skin soft and not tight and dry. I wholeheartedly recommend this amazing product. Plus, if your skin is sensitive, it is SO gentle. It is color free, fragrance free, and non-comodegenic. When you pump it out, it comes out as a foam. Very cool. My 25 year old sister and 54 year old mom were looking for something gentle yet effective, I recomended this and now they love it too!

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I bought this cleanser today b/c of the reviews on here. I thought I was in for a treat, but I really hate this product. I have combo/acne prone skin but this totally dried it out, so much so that it hurt to smile. I’m taking it back, right away.

RECAP: Great…..if you want your face to be dry as a desert. YUCK!

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First you should know that I have weird skin on my face. Sometimes it is completely oily, sometimes it is completely dry. No matter what though, I get pimples. I had been abusing the skin on my face trying to no avail to treat the pimples on my face. I used harsh cleansers, astringents, and products like benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid. For some reason I got this wild idea to try calming my face down and being really gentle to my skin by using Dove soap for sensitive skin.

I actually was already using this soap for the sensitive skin on my body. My body can be dry and really itchy. Even when my skin is moisturized, I would have periods where I would be super itchy. And this soap helped. It is very gentle, but unfortunately I didn’t find it to be very moisturizing.

If you look at any site that rates products you will find that a lot of people say that this soap has a fragrance, that it really isn’t fragrance free like the box says. These people are very annoying. The box says FRAGRANCE FREE, meaning that the soap manufacturer did not ADD an additional fragrance to this product. If you look at the ingredients you can see, that in fact, fragrance is not listed. The materials to make the soap have a smell though!!! The scent this soap has is of the materials, not of a perfume. That is why there is two Dove soaps-sensitive skin and unscented. Dove Fragrance Free has a natural, pleasant odor. Dove Unscented has added chemicals to mask those scents.

Anyways, being gentle to my face with this soap normalized it! I didn’t use it long term though. It is good to use every once in awhile when your skin is aggravated but I don’t really like using bar soap on my face. I feel like the bar soap produces a buildup on my skin and after awhile the cleanser just doesn’t work as well. I still would use it in the shower everyday for my body during the summer, or at least when my skin isn’t really dry.

Technorati Tags: pimples, cleansers, astringents, benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, Dove, sensitive skin, moisturizing, FRAGRANCE FREE

One word, “AMAZING”!!!! This cleanser is a new staple in my bathroom! I absolutely love how this cleanser takes all the makeup and gunk off your face yet it still leaves it smooth and soft. It does all this AND it controls even the most oily of faces! I have high shine skin. I do my makeup in the morning: long-wearing foundation, lots of powder and still my skin starts to get shiny only about 2 hours later!! With this cleanser, I can wear it to work ALL day long, and my face stays considerably less oily. Before, I would return home from work with my makeup practically melting off my face. It was really disgusting. I would have to blot my skin at least 2 times and apply powder throughout the day but this cleanser leaves my skin matte for a much longer time……hours longer. This product is so amazing. This is the first oil controlling cleanser that actually controls oil!! This cleanser has a light, fresh, citrus scent which I love. Bravo Neutrogena - as long as you continue making it, I will most definitely continue buying it!!

UPDATE: I still love this cleanser but after a few weeks I found using it twice a day was a just a little bit drying for use in the winter. Now I either, use this cleanser in the morning before makeup and something different at night or I use it twice a day in the summer when my skin is greasiest.

RECAP: LOVE IT!

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