Your face wash should be doing more than removing your mascara.

There are cleansers that get your face clean by stripping practically everything else along with it.

This is not one of them.

Alitura’s Pearl Cleanser is a creamy, gentle cleanser made to thoroughly cleanse while leaving skin soft, comfortable, and decidedly not squeaky. It’s the kind of cleanser that makes an otherwise very boring step in your routine feel suspiciously luxurious.

And the ingredient list explains why.

Freshwater pearl powder joins tremella mushroom, kaolin clay, sea kelp, ginseng, rosehip, aloe, and floral waters in a formula that cleanses while giving your skin considerably more attention than the average face wash.

The result is skin that feels genuinely clean without that tight, stripped feeling that makes you immediately reach for moisturizer.

WHY WE LIKE IT

Because cleansing is something you do every single day, often twice. We’d prefer that step not involve declaring war on your skin barrier.

The Pearl Cleanser manages to be effective without being aggressive, indulgent without being fussy, and gentle without leaving you wondering whether it actually did anything.

It did.

Your face is clean.

It just still feels like your face afterward.

WellHaus verdict: An unnecessarily overachieving face wash. We respect that.