Cleansers are perhaps the most important tool in your daily skincare routine. They remove irritants, bacteria, sebum, oils, and everything else (including makeup, pollution, and sunscreen) from the skin, allowing for a clean base to absorb the powerful next ingredients and formulas in your ritual (like serums, moisturizers, and face oils). Facial cleansers are no longer one size fits all, so you can find the most ideal cleanser for your specific skin (and skin type). At first glance, The Matcha Foam Cleanse may look similar to one of our bestselling cleansers, The Deep Cleanse, but the two formulas are vastly different. Here’s how they differ, and which formula is right for you.
The Matcha Foam Cleanse vs. The Deep Cleanse
The main difference between The Deep Cleanse and The Matcha Foam Cleanse is exfoliation. The Deep Cleanse is a gentle exfoliating cleanser: Luffa fruit scrubs away dead skin and wild rose diminishes the look of pores, so it purifies and polishes skin in one step. The Matcha Foam Cleanse is a non-exfoliating clarifying gel cleanser for oily and combination skin that whips into a rich foam, with green clay to reduce excess oil, prebiotic inulin to balance blemish-prone skin, and matcha extract to help calm visible redness. Choose The Deep Cleanse if you want to smooth dull skin as you cleanse, or The Matcha Foam Cleanse if you want to control oil and calm blemish-prone skin without exfoliating.
Why We Love The Matcha Foam Cleanse
We’ve listened to our beloved consumers’ thoughts and suggestions since the origin of our brand, and we’ve heard the same thing over and over again for years: It’s impossible to find a daily cleanser for oily and combination skin that doesn’t overstrip or make breakouts worse. Which is where The Matcha Foam Cleanse steps in. This clarifying gel cleanser deeply decongests pores and reduces excess oil, while it balances the microbiome for blemish-prone skin and visibly calms skin. It’s gentle, too: It’s non-comedogenic, and in a clinical study, it helped maintain a healthy microbiome without disrupting the skin barrier or pH. Prep it in your hands with a little water and lather until it feels like freshly whisked matcha, then massage it onto your face and rinse.
The Matcha Foam Cleanse Ingredients
The Matcha Foam Cleanse’s ingredients celebrate the best of time-tested Japanese beauty with a modern point of view. Here are the ingredients that make The Matcha Foam Cleanse stand out from the crowd.
Japanese Ceremonial Grade Matcha
Prized for its quality in Japan, ceremonial grade matcha is the highest quality of matcha made, and in The Matcha Foam Cleanse, matcha extract helps calm visible redness. Matcha has also been scientifically linked with a significant reduction in acne when applied topically, thanks to the tea’s anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.
Prebiotic Inulin
Prebiotic inulin supports healthy bacteria on the skin to help balance blemish-prone skin, so the formula can clarify without disrupting your skin’s microbiome.
Green Clay
Green clay reduces excess oil and visibly refines pores, which makes it a natural fit for oily and combination skin.
Who Is The Matcha Foam Cleanse Right For?
Searching for a daily cleanser for oily, blemish-prone, and/or combination skin that won’t overstrip or make breakouts worse?
Traditional cleansers can strip too much moisture, causing the skin to overcompensate with excessive oil, leading to clogged pores and potential blemishes. Try The Matcha Foam Cleanse, which deeply decongests pores and reduces excess oil without disrupting the skin barrier. After just one week, 96 percent of participants showed an improvement in excess oil and the look of pores.*
Dealing with visible redness?
Oily, blemish-prone skin can look irritated, too. The Matcha Foam Cleanse visibly calms and soothes skin, and 96 percent of participants showed a reduction in visible redness after one week.*
You don’t want to exfoliate with every face wash
The Deep Cleanse has a slight physical exfoliant to minimize steps, but for those seeking a gentle yet effective gel cleanser (sans exfoliation), reach for The Matcha Foam Cleanse. This is particularly true if you are a fan of the award-winning Rice Polish: Deep. It’s ideal not to use The Rice Polish: Deep and The Deep Cleanse together, as that’s likely too much exfoliation for one ritual.
You live in a humid climate
Whether you live in a humid climate year-round or just a few months out of the year, The Matcha Foam Cleanse is right for you. The formula reduces excess oil, helping to curb that oil-slick feeling and look during the day.
*Based on a clinical study of 31 participants.
Why We Love The Deep Cleanse
A bestseller for years, The Deep Cleanse is a face wash doing double duty, working on the skin as both a cleanser and physical exfoliant at the same time. Geared towards oily skin, the gel-to-creamy-foam formula includes natural luffa fruit for purifying and exfoliation, but also wild rose and leopard lily to minimize excess oil and visibly calm skin. While it is designed for oily skin that doesn’t mean it’s harsh or drying. The formula includes amino acids derived from silk extracts to balance, while also leaving skin comfortably hydrated.
The Deep Cleanse Ingredients
Wild Rose
In traditional Eastern medicine, wild rose is used to bring the body back into balance, improve circulation, and even calm the spirit. In The Deep Cleanse, the antioxidant-rich fruits of this fragrant blossom can balance skin, reduce the appearance of pores, and also improve skin tone and texture.
Leopard Lily
Found on the cool hillsides of Japan, this bright bloom has been prized for its numerous benefits for centuries. Used to decorate the streets of Kyoto’s geisha district during the Gion Festival, leopard lily has earned the name “the flower of Kyoto.” In skincare, the leopard lily can visibly calm skin, helping to soothe instantly.
Luffa Fruit
Used for centuries as a natural beauty multitasker, the ground fibers of the luffa fruit help to exfoliate skin. Additionally, the powerhouse ingredient helps to delicately turn over dead skin cells, deeply purifying and decongesting pores.
Who Is The Deep Cleanse Right For?
Searching for a daily cleanser that improves skin’s texture, radiance, softness, and hydration?
In clinical studies, 100 percent of users* showed improvements in all of these impressive and noticeable benefits after just one use of The Deep Cleanse. The same study found the cleanser also showed improvement in the appearance of pores, too.
Looking to exfoliate and cleanse in one single step?
Reach for The Deep Cleanse, which sufficiently minimizes the daily skincare ritual, combining the purify and polish steps into one satisfying creamy foam experience.
Seeking a reduction of that midday oil slick feeling on your face?
The Deep Cleanse has been shown to reduce excessive oils in 100 percent of users in a clinical study.** But compared to harsh cleansers, the cleanser leaves skin soft and hydrated with amino acids.
*Based on a clinical study of 25 women after one use
**Based on a bioinstrumentation study conducted on 25 people
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