Face wash recommendations please

[Wibblytummy]

I desperately need your favourite face wash recommendations please. I find myself buying the latest ones on offer in Boots etc and none of them seem to do my skin any good. If it's of any use, I've got combination skin and no wrinkles yet but of the age I think it's advised to start taking a few preventative measures! Happy to splurge a little if I need to, to find something I love and becomes my face wash go to! Thank you in advance.

I adore Pure Melt Cleansing Gel by Clarins. Goes on like a rich gel which you massage into skin then when you rinse with water it turns to milk and washes away leaving lovely soft skin. A cheaper alternative is loreal miracle cleansing oil (think thats what its called!) which is similar but I find not as easy to apply because its an oil so it runs down your hands as you're applying it. Neither make your dkin greasy.

Cetaphil, cheap and very cheerful.
It softens, it moisturises, it calms, it comforts, it's brilliant stuff.
Ok it can't completely clean off mascara so I use one of many Micellar waters ( avene/ la Roche posay) on the shelves.

I have spent a fortune on Eve Lom etc but Cetaphil beats all the wonder lotions hands down.

I've just started using the new calendula foaming face wash by Kiehls and it is great.

Other than eve loom, I would recommend soap and glory peaches and clean. It is lovely.

I currently use clinique liquid soap for oily skin. Other stuff tends to make me break out. However I'm mid 30s and probably need something a bit gentler. Any recommendations??

The Body Shop vitamin E facial cleansing bar. It feels and behaves like soap, but isn't at all drying. I am 55 and have combination skin and it suits my skin beautifully.

It gets a high rating because it is so good.

Clinique take the day of balm, bit of a bargain.

Oh some lovely ones here, thank you ladies. Ahh Apatite1 Clinque always gives me break outs, can't seem to use any of their stuff.

It is the only Clinique product I use as I don't get on with anything else.

Take the day off balm is great. I like lots of cleansers, currently using Liz Earle and a vitamin C oil one, and Ren.

Do buy a cleanser, not a soap or anything that foams. Whichever cleanser you get, massage into dry skin, then hold a hot wet flannel over your face, rinse then gently buff the muck off

Buy lots of flannels! Pound shop or Primark or Wilkos - use one a day and put in the wash. I have dark coloured ones.

I love Cliniques take the day off balm, it's turned my skin around. I double cleanse with that and a clarins cream cleanser.

I do that hot oil thingy that's quite often on here

Bloody brilliant and cheap too

Is take the day off suitable for oily skin? I still gets spots at 35, at least oily skin helps keep wrinkles at bay!

Yes I think anyone could use it.

I've always had oily skin but it is SO much better since I started using oils on it and stopped using things that are supposedly for oily skin that that actually strip it. I know use an oil cleanser and treatment oils.

Take the day off balm melts into an oily consistency. It's great.

I just use Clinique. It lasts forever.

i use liz earle cleanse and polish as it's just so neat and doesn't make a mess! at night i use body shop tea tree face wash, seems good to me.

Liz Earle Cleanse & Polish for me too. If I run out and try something else, my skin looks dull and/or breaks out within days.

Superdrug Vitamin E hot cloth cleanser.

I get spots, although rarely do now.

I double cleanse with an oil cleanser.

I use Neal's yard wild rose beauty balm with a hot cloth at night.

In the mornings, I use the Aveda tourmaline charge cleanser or REN micropolishing (?) cleanser whilst having a shower.

Those are my go to cleansers, even though I try other things in between, I always go back to those.

Another vote for Cetaphil.

Cleanser isn't really meant to 'do your skin good' - the ingredients are in contact with your skin for such a short time it's a waste to spend masses on cleanser with fancy ingredients. Preventative measures are SPF, acid toners and serum or moisturiser with anti-oxidants and retinol in, not cleanser.

It just needs to make your skin clean without being too harsh - so no foaming, no scrubby particles and preferably no fragrance. Cetaphil is fab, cheap and lasts forever.

I love Dr Organics from Holland and Barrett as I have really sensitive skin. Also I use raw black African soap that I buy over ebay...amazing stuff!

LE Cleanse and Polish or Soap & Glory Peaches & Clean. Love them both!

I've been using biore deep pore charcoal cleanse and my skin has never felt better. A new colleague at work in conversation the other day said "well you've got great skin" trust me nobody has ever said that to me before!

Dove unscented bar! Tempted by cetaphil now though!