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Vell Gentle Cleanser

A cream-gel cleanser that lifts the day off without stripping the barrier you spent money repairing.

Size150 ml Price$42
Every skin, morning and night. The first step.
Vell Gentle Cleanser, photographed as a still life

Most cleansers clean too well. They use sulphates that foam impressively and leave skin tight, which the skin reads as damage and answers with more oil. Vell uses a coco-glucoside system instead, a sugar-derived surfactant that lifts sunscreen and grime at a near-neutral pH.

Glycerin and a little oat extract stay behind to keep the barrier soft. It does not foam much. That is the point.

The formula, in full.

4 ingredients. Each named, sourced and explained. The percentages add to one hundred.

  • 12% Coco-glucoside Coco-Glucoside
    From coconut and fruit sugar
    A gentle sugar-derived surfactant; cleans without stripping.
  • 5% Glycerin Glycerin
    Vegetable-derived
    Holds water in the skin through the wash.
  • 2% Colloidal oat Avena Sativa Kernel Extract
    Milled oat, Australia
    Colloidal oat extract, to soothe and soften.
  • · Glycerin Glycerin
    Vegetable-derived
    Buffered to a near-neutral pH so the barrier stays intact.

Scent None added.

What it will not do.

  • It will not remove heavy waterproof eye make-up in one pass. Use an oil first for that.
  • It will not foam like a sulphate cleanser. Lather is marketing, not cleaning.

Not in this formula

  • Sulphates (SLS / SLES)
  • Added fragrance
  • Drying alcohol

Batch dated and numbered. Best within twelve months of opening.

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