Today, let’s talk about triple cleansing, the supposedly expert-approved way to wash your face.
As the name suggests, triple cleansing involves cleansing one’s face not once, but three times. Yep. Our faces are so dirty, so filthy, only the degreasing power of three different face cleansing products will do. Apparently.
While having a squeaky clean face does sound lovely, do we really need to wash our faces three times every single night to get one? Is triple cleansing worth the extra time, effort and money, or could it make your skin worse?
To find out, I spoke to a dermatologist and put my own face on the line for a week triple cleansing.
Here’s how my face and I went.
What is triple cleansing?
In short, triple cleansing involves washing your face… three times. Every night.
Triple cleansing takes things one step further than double cleansing – the Korean K-beauty skincare trend based on washing your face twice. Think of it as double cleansing’s complex, materialistic younger cousin.
She’s deep and wants to get under your skin, literally.
While double cleansing involves first washing your face with a cleansing oil to thoroughly remove makeup before going in with a water-based cream or foaming product for a second cleanse, triple cleansing adds a ‘crucial’ third step.
To triple cleanse, you first need to use a cleansing wipe to remove your makeup, then a cleansing oil to remove the makeup the wipe didn’t catch, and finally, the water-based cleanser.
Top Comments
I’m a one cleanser gal but I do use wipes and sometimes a product not dissimilar to the halo wipe. I don’t count that as cleansing though because it’s really just removing the makeup more than getting deep into the skin which a cleanser is really designed to do.
My mother looks about fifteen years younger than her actual age and she credits good skincare. The trick? Rarely using cosmetics and using high quality creams. Growing up, she taught me to wash my face and use no soaps, cleansers, or cloths at all. I never had acne, never had any skin issues whatsoever. She wears minimal make-up (often just lipstick, sometimes mascara or eye-liner) and removes it with one cleanser, then rinses with water. She uses a daily spf moisturizer, an eye cream, and a serum. She doesn't believe in night creams because she likes to let skin breathe at night. Given how amazing she looks, I can't imagine why I'd follow the advice of these bloggers over the evidence of a woman who has the proof of having as few wrinkles as a 30-year old in her late fifties.