blum.jpgThe girls and I have been playing at putting on make up quite frequently lately, so I’ve been looking for a good (and cheap) makeup remover. I found the Blum Daily Cleansing Towelettes at Grocery Outlet and, despite the price ($3 for 30), I decided to give them a try. Bad idea – they suck.
The selling point of these towelettes is that they are made with natural and organic ingredients (though if you look at the ingredients the only organic ingredient is the tea tree oil). Some of the ingredients (salicylic acid, gluconolactone) don’t sound very natural, but who am I to know? The towelettes are pretty thin and they are a bit rough when you apply them. The ones I use are for combination/oily skin and they don’t contain any oil – which means that they leave you with a dry feeling. That’s probably a good thing.
The problem, however, is that they don’t work well. My kids applied a lot of makeup to my face today, and I tried to thoroughly clean it with the towelette. It removed quite a bit of the stuff, but by no means all of it. I followed up by cleaning my face with cotton balls and a combination of 2/3 aloe vera gel and 1/3 jojoba oil, and I was amazed at how much makeup there was left over. Of course, using oil to clean my oily face is probably not a good idea – but it does work.