What is Deep Cleansing Oil 200ml?

It is a first step cleansing oil from Frankly, made for anyone who wants makeup and the day off without the squeaky tight feeling afterwards. It goes first in the evening, on a dry face, before your foaming cleanser. The result you can judge yourself is how your skin feels in the minute after you pat it dry.

Where does Deep Cleansing Oil 200ml go in my routine?

It goes first in the evening, on a dry face, before your foaming cleanser. In practice: On a dry face, massage a few pumps over the skin for a minute, add water until it turns milky, then rinse and follow with a foam. Applying it out of that order is the usual reason a step seems to do nothing.

Is Deep Cleansing Oil 200ml right for my skin type?

It is aimed at anyone who wants makeup and the day off without the squeaky tight feeling afterwards. The skin types we would put first are all skin types, sensitive skin and dry skin. A cleanser is the step most worth getting right, because everything you apply afterwards lands on whatever it left behind.

Does a cleansing oil leave a greasy film?

Only when the emulsifying step is cut short. The oil is designed to turn milky when you add water, and that milky stage is what carries it off the face. Add water gradually, keep massaging until the texture changes, then rinse properly and follow with a foam. Done that way the skin is left clean rather than coated.

Is this Deep Cleansing Oil 200ml the authentic Korean-market formula?

Yes. We stock the Frankly Korean-market formula rather than a version reformulated for US shelves. The bottle you open is the 200ml one sold on Korean shelves, with Korean-primary packaging and an intact barcode you can check yourself.

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Deep Cleansing Oil 200ml

Name: Frankly Deep Cleansing Oil 200ml
Brand: Frankly
SKU: 9953232909
Price: 42.5 USD
Availability: InStock

Frankly Deep Cleansing Oil 200ml is a first step cleansing oil for anyone who wants a cleanse that does not leave skin tight.

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Suited to: All skin typesSensitive skinDry skinNormal skin

Helps with: Daily cleansingComfort after cleansingMakeup removal

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How it works

A cleansing oil is the first half of a double cleanse and it works on dry skin, which is the part people get wrong. Massaged over dry skin it loosens makeup, sunscreen and the day's oil, then turns milky when water is added and rinses away with all of it. A cleanser is judged by what it leaves behind rather than by how much it takes off, and comfort a minute after rinsing is the measure. That is the difference from a foaming cleanser, which handles sweat and grime but leaves oil based makeup mostly where it was. The result you can judge yourself is how your skin feels in the minute after you pat it dry.

Key benefits

On this formula's own list, 1,2-Hexanediol shows up near the top. It is a multifunctional glycol that carries moisture and helps preserve the formula.
This one's ingredient list carries Salicylic Acid in the first half, a BHA that works inside the pore to clear out oil and dead surface cells.
Panthenol sits in the first half on this product's own ingredient list, a barrier-supporting provitamin that eases surface roughness.

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Ethylhexyl Palmitate emollient: Ethylhexyl Palmitate is a palm-derived ester used as a light emollient and a solvent for pigment. It gives a smooth, non-greasy slip.
Cetyl Ethylhexanoate emollient: Cetyl Ethylhexanoate is a synthetic ester used as a dry-feeling emollient. It spreads easily, leaves a silky rather than oily finish, and helps disperse pigments and UV filters evenly.
Sorbeth-30 Tetraoleate emulsifier: Sorbeth-30 Tetraoleate is an emulsifier used in cleansing oils so the oil can be rinsed off with water rather than wiped away.
Isopropyl Myristate emollient: Isopropyl Myristate is a light ester emollient that absorbs fast and helps other ingredients penetrate. It is known to be poorly suited to blemish-prone skin at higher levels.
1,2-Hexanediol humectant: 1,2-Hexanediol is a glycol used for two reasons: it holds water like glycerin, and it makes a formula harder for microbes to live in, so less traditional preservative is needed. Korean formulas use it heavily for that second reason.
Citrus Aurantium Bergamia (Bergamot) Fruit Oil fragrance component: Bergamot Fruit Oil is a citrus essential oil and the top note of eau de cologne. It scents a formula; citrus oils are the aromatic class most likely to bother reactive skin.
Caprylyl Glycol preservative booster: Caprylyl Glycol is a glycol that conditions skin and, more importantly, strengthens a preservative system so less of the traditional preservative is needed. It appears in most modern formulas built without parabens.
Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil emollient: Jojoba Oil is a liquid wax rather than a true oil, and its structure is close to human sebum, which is why it absorbs so readily. It is an emollient that leaves a soft, non-greasy finish.
Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil emollient: Meadowfoam Seed Oil is over 95 percent long-chain fatty acids, which makes it exceptionally stable against going rancid. It is an emollient that leaves a soft, sealed feel.
Water solvent: Water is the base almost every serum, toner and cream is built on. It dissolves the water-loving ingredients and sets how light the finished texture feels. On an INCI list it is usually first, which only means it is the largest single ingredient by weight.
Capryloyl Salicylic Acid exfoliant: Capryloyl Salicylic Acid is salicylic acid with a fatty tail, sometimes sold as LHA. It stays nearer the surface than salicylic acid and works at a higher pH, so it exfoliates more evenly and more gently.
Salicylic Acid exfoliant: Salicylic Acid is a BHA, and the only common exfoliant that is oil soluble, so it can work inside a pore rather than only on the surface. It loosens the dead cells that block pores and is used for the look of congested, oily skin.

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Panthenol humectant: Panthenol is pro-vitamin B5: skin converts it to pantothenic acid. It is a humectant that holds water and leaves skin feeling soft and less tight, and it is one of the ingredients formulators reach for when a formula also contains something harsh.
Glycerin humectant: Glycerin is the most used humectant in skincare. It draws water into the outer layer of skin and holds it there, and it is one of the very few ingredients whose hydrating effect is settled science rather than marketing. Higher amounts feel tacky, which is why it is usually blended.
Glycine amino acid: Glycine is the smallest amino acid and one of the free amino acids skin holds to keep water in the outer layer. In a formula it is a humectant and a mild buffer.
Serine amino acid: Serine is one of the most abundant free amino acids in the outer layer of skin, where it helps hold water. Added to a formula it is a humectant.
Glutamic Acid amino acid: Glutamic Acid is an amino acid used as a humectant and a mild pH adjuster. It is one of the components of skin's natural moisturising factor.
Aspartic Acid amino acid: Aspartic Acid is an amino acid used as a humectant and buffer, usually within a wider amino acid blend.
Leucine amino acid: Leucine is an essential amino acid used as a humectant, part of the amino acid block many Korean essences carry.
Alanine amino acid: Alanine is a free amino acid skin uses as part of its own moisture-holding system. In a formula it hydrates and conditions.
Lysine amino acid: Lysine is an essential amino acid used as a conditioning humectant in an amino acid complex.
Arginine amino acid: Arginine is an amino acid that does two jobs here: it holds water in the outer layer of skin, and it neutralises acidic gelling agents, which is why it often stands in for a synthetic pH adjuster.
Tyrosine amino acid: Tyrosine is an amino acid used as a conditioning humectant in amino acid complexes.
Phenylalanine amino acid: Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid used in skincare as a conditioning humectant.
Proline amino acid: Proline is an amino acid abundant in collagen and one of skin's own humectants. Added to a formula it holds water in the outer layer.
Threonine amino acid: Threonine is an essential amino acid used in skincare as a humectant, normally as part of an amino acid complex rather than alone.
Valine amino acid: Valine is an essential amino acid used as a humectant alongside the rest of an amino acid block.
Isoleucine amino acid: Isoleucine is an essential amino acid used as a conditioning humectant within an amino acid complex.
Sodium Hyaluronate humectant: Sodium Hyaluronate is the salt of hyaluronic acid, and it is what most products labelled hyaluronic actually contain. The salt dissolves more readily and the molecule is smaller, so it sits in the outer layer of skin rather than only on top of it.
Histidine amino acid: Histidine is an amino acid used as a humectant and a buffer, part of skin's own free amino acid pool.
Cysteine amino acid: Cysteine is a sulphur-bearing amino acid used as a humectant and antioxidant. It is one of the three building blocks of glutathione.
Methionine amino acid: Methionine is a sulphur-bearing essential amino acid used as a humectant and mild antioxidant.
Hyaluronic Acid humectant: Hyaluronic Acid is a sugar chain the body already makes, and one gram of it can hold several litres of water. In a formula it is a humectant that pulls water to the surface of skin and holds it in a film, which is what makes skin look plumper while it is there.
Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid humectant: Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid is hyaluronic acid cut into much shorter fragments. The smaller the fragment, the further into the outer layer it can settle, which is why serums stack several sizes together instead of using one.
Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans humectant: Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans are short fragments of the sugar chains that sit between cells in skin, hyaluronic acid among them. They act as humectants and give a cushioned feel.
Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate humectant: Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hyaluronate carries a positive charge, and skin carries a slight negative one, so it is attracted to the surface and stays through rinsing. It is the hyaluronic used where a formula gets washed off.
Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer humectant: Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer is hyaluronic acid linked into a mesh. It holds water in a soft gel on the surface rather than sinking in, and it releases that water slowly through the day.
Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate humectant: Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate is hyaluronic acid modified to be part oil-loving, so it clings to skin instead of rinsing away. Formulators call it the one that stays put.
Dimethylsilanol Hyaluronate humectant: Dimethylsilanol Hyaluronate is hyaluronic acid joined to a silicon-based group. It hydrates and leaves a smoother, silkier finish than hyaluronic acid alone.

How to use

Start with a dry face and dry hands, since water on the surface stops an oil taking hold of makeup.
Massage a few pumps over the face for about a minute, spending longest on the eyes, nose and jaw.
Do not skip the foaming cleanse afterwards, and never rinse before the oil has been emulsified or a film will be left behind.

Worth knowing

Keep it out of the eyes and rinse with plenty of water if any gets in.
Patch test on a small area first if your skin reacts easily to new products.

Complete the routine

This itemFrankly Deep Cleansing Oil 200ml$42.50
From the same Korean-market lineFRANKLY Glow Filter Tone Up Cream 50ml$32.50
The treatment step of this routineFRANKLY PDRN Bounce Ball Serum 30ml$55.00

Total for 3 items$130.00

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