The shift into a new season is a great time to contemplate new beginnings. Like your skincare choices. There’s no need to toss the baby out with the bath water – not everything will need changing – but it’s worth looking at your cleanser. Do you still love it? Does it still work? Could you do better? If you are absolutely happy with your cleanser, great, come back next week. For those who have simply been tolerating their cleanser while knowing in their heart it’s not what they want or need (like a dodgy relationship), keep reading. A good cleanser will provide a great slate on which to build everything else. If anyone tells you your cleanser choice isn’t important, because (unlike a serum/moisturiser) it only sits on your skin for mere seconds before you wash it off, don’t believe them. Your cleanser can harness or hold back the rest of your skincare. So choose wisely. If your skin is congested or oily, go for a gel or foam. For dry, dehydrated skins, an oil cleanser is soothing and hydrating. For sensitive skins, cream cleansers are recommended. For anyone needing to remove makeup gently, a two-step ritual starting with a balm cleanser is a good habit to adopt. Now the bad news. It’s unrealistic to think that after this you will never need to change your cleanser again. You probably will. Because your skin changes. Just like the seasons.

1. Bubble First Class Oil Cleanser £17, boots.com
2. IS Clinical Cream Cleanser £48, spacenk.com,
3. Skin Rocks The Gel Cleanser £39, libertylondon.com
4. Hourglass Equilibrium Transformative Cleansing Balm £59, harveynichols.com
5. Face Theory Glow-C Cream Cleanser £14, facetheory.com
6. Dr Loretta Gentle Hydrating Cleanser £40, lookfantastic.com
7. Kat Burki Vitamin C Nourishing Cleansing Balm £65, katburki.com
8. Byoma Milky Moisture Cleanser £13, sephora.co.uk
9. Then I Met You Living Cleansing Balm from £14, spacenk.com
10. QMS Cleanse SystemGentle Cleansing Milk £50, uk.qmsmedicosmetics.com

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