A Staple To Any Skincare Routine: Micellar Water

I have decided to start with an essential.

I am an advocate for washing off all makeup every night. So much so if I am feeling lazy and use a facial wipe to quickly get rid of the majority of the days makeup I can't sleep, not until I get up and wash my face properly. Call me obsessed but I can't help it. Every morning and night I use Liz Earle's Hot Polish Cleanser, have done for about 5 years on and off and I probably always will have it in my life but that's not why I'm writing this.

The star of this blog post is about Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water.

I've been reading and researching about micellar water for a while and had been eyeing up Superdrug's B. Pure Micellar Water for what seemed like weeks but on a random outing to Boots I saw that Garnier had a new one out. It was on offer so I got drawn in and bought it. And I'm thankful that I did.

Using it is easy enough, you could probably use it on it's own to cleanse but I use mine after I've used my Liz Earle. So you just put some on a cotton wool pad and wipe it gently over your face (it's even gentle enough for your eyes) and I found it crazy how much makeup was on the cotton wool pad!! It just seemed to pull all the leftover makeup and impurities off my skin. The first time I used it I even did it again to make sure it wasn't some sort of reaction to make it look like it was working, but nope because this cotton wool pad was clean. As well as making your skin spotlessly clean it says it hydrates too, which I can believe since there's no need to rinse it off. But I put my moisturiser on straight after so I can't really comment, however I can say that it definitely doesn't dry out my skin.

(Remnants of tonights cleanse. Thought it would be good to show you what this product can get out of my skin even after a cleanse, gross but still.)

I've had mine for about 3 months and as the picture shows I've still got about half left, although I do only use this in the evening to double cleanse. Nonetheless I think it'll still be great value if you'd use it twice a day because at £4.99 you can't go wrong. (It's currently £3.99 in Boots).

Available here: Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water

What's your skincare staple?

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