The Best Facial Wipes
Let’s set the scene: It’s 3AM on a Sunday morning. You’re rolling home feeling a little drunk and several shades of unworthy. You make a B line for the kitchen, shove a plastic forkful of take-out into your mouth and then head to the bathroom. Sh*t. The face staring back at you is not the same one you saw an hour earlier (while re-applying your bronzer for the 20th time in the back of a cab).
Your eyeliner is smudged, your skin looks like something out of the walking dead and the red lipstick that looked perfect earlier in the night is now making you look like Courtney Love in her heyday (circa 1993).
All you want to do is down a nurofen and go to bed, but you know you should remove your make-up first. The amount of times you’ve flicked through a magazine with some supermodel singing the praises of 8 hours sleep, 2L water a day and removing make-up before bed, mostly makes you feel inadequate but tonight, smug, because you remember you bought some face wipes. A small consolation to how you’ll feel in the morning.
So, in praise of the drunk girl’s guide to removing make-up, we’ve pulled together our favourite cleansing wipes. You know, for the next time you find yourself…a little worse for wear.
Ole Henriksen The Clean Truth Cleansing Cloths: Brightening
Tired? Drawn? Travelling? Meet your magical wake up call in a pack. Enriched with refreshing and brightening vitamin C and Coq10 to make skin go hello, these are an airport arrival lounge essential. Trust us.
Available at Sephora or shop them here.
Milk & Co Beauty Wipes
Lindy Klim was onto a good thing when she created these. Not only do they do a winning cleanse, but they’re large-sized (TICK), alcohol and paraban free (TICK) and on top of that – double sided: one side for exfoliating, the other for a light cleanse. TICK TICK TICK.
Shop them here.
MAC wipes
When we think about how much gunk a model has to put on and take off her face backstage and on shoots, our skin starts to sting a little. So, think about how hardworking, but how soft these wipes have to be to actually be formulated for pro-use. That’s right – these cloths are indulgent but promise to remove it all, long-wear eyeliner and all.
Shop them here.
Natio gentle cleansing wipes
With Ylang Ylang and uplifting benzoin, these natural, delicate cleansers smell like summer holidays (take.us.away.please) We love them in our gym bag when we’re hot and bothered and feeling, uh, less than fresh. Great for sensitive skins too.
Shop them here.
Garnier Micellar cleansing wipes
You know that cult-status “cleansing water” everyone keeps buzzing about? This is THAT but in a handy one-time use form. We love them. They literally cannot be faulted, from oily skins through to redness and sensitivities. Pack ‘em in your nightstand and thank us in the morning.
Shop them here.
L’Oreal Revitalift rejuvenating make-up removing wipes
So you’re worried about ageing? Us too. If you hate traditional soapy or clean feel cleansers, then add these to cart. They’re the anti-facial wipe facial wipe. Formulated with a creamy lotion, that has an anti-wrinkle exfoliant inside, they leave the face feeling fresh and clean, but never dry.
Shop them here.
BONUS WIPE! Model Co Exfoliate Double Sided Body Wipes
Ok so we know this was meant to be a round up of facial wipes- but how could we leave out something that exfoliates our body so well, so simply? These are double sided –so you get a full on scrub (and tan remover) on one side and a softer exfoliation on the other, which we’ve been known to cheat and use the gentle side on our faces too… Consider this our in-case-of-tan-emergency go-to.
