Experiment: Olive Oil as Makeup Remover

I think many of us have been in the blogging/vlogging beauty community long enough that we've heard of the bagillion ways olive oil can be useful--including for makeup removal.

Well it just so happens that I completely ran out of makeup remover the other day.  I thought I had a back up bottle but apparently not.  Right now the only makeup remover I will use is the Target brand because it is dirt cheap and works better than a lot of more expensive options.  As I don't live near a Target anymore, I couldn't run out and buy some so for a couple of weeks I opted for olive oil that I had lying around the house.

Let's just start with some pictures, shall we?

Before

After

Just to specifiy, I used the olive oil for eye makeup removal only.  That includes my super duper waterproof and long wearing Inglot gel eyeliner, waterproof mascara, and eyeshadows over a primer.  

So is olive oil as good as my trusty Up and Up Oil-free Makeup Remover by Target?  

Well, no.  As you can see, there are still some bits of black on my face.  To be fair though, it is a very good Plan B and is efficient enough.  I did end up using more oil and more cotton rounds to remove all my eye makeup.  Getting all the waterproof mascara off is definitely a lot more time consuming and tedious, and feeling all that greasiness on my face and fingers is quite off putting.  I used maybe 4 or 5 cotton rounds to get the makeup off, as opposed to my usual 2 or 3.

So what happens then?  Well, I ordered 10 bottles of the makeup remover on Target's website only to have them all spill inside the box so I had to drive out to a Target and exchange them anyway.  I've learned my lesson.  I will never run out of makeup remover again!

Review: Neutrogena Fresh Foaming Cleanser

Yarghhh it took me 6 tries before I could upload this to youtube, hence being unable to blog about the product for a long long time. Anyways, on to the product….

What it is:
 Neutrogena’s Fresh Foaming Cleanser is not only a face wash, but a makeup remover as well. This product claims to remove even waterproof makeup, which is always a plus. Product retails for about $8 wherever Neutrogena products are sold (Target, Rite Aid, Walgreens, CVS, etc).


The positive:
 This product is gentle enough to use for my normal, but sensitive, skin type. I wash my face once a day, and experienced no breakouts or drying out of the skin. The best part is, this product does a fabulous job of removing all the gunk in your pores, along with all of your makeup (yes, even waterproof!) I use this product to remove all of my face makeup, so that not even toner or pore strips can detect any trace of makeup. I stopped using pore strips all together because this cleanser was so effective. No need to scrub extra hard; just massage the product into your skin and rinse off with warm water. Simple as that.

The negative:
There are very few negative points about this product. One is that I do not recommend using this to remove eye makeup, as the product will sting your eyes. I find it best to remove eye makeup with a separate eye makeup remover before proceeding to remove face makeup with the face wash. Another point is, when washing your face, it does not feel particularly amazing. No tingling sensation of any sort, although that may not be a bad thing. I was skeptical about this product at first because of this, but I’m so glad I continued to use it everyday.

The verdict:
I would most definitely buy this product again. I appreciated it a lot more when I ran out and bought another cleanser which does not do nearly a good job as this Fresh Foaming Cleanser. Product is very inexpensive, and you can often find sales on this product at the drugstore. This product is definitely worth trying out.