Colorful packaging and clever marketing tactics for the new L’Oreal 360 Clean facial cleanser won’t rescue this low quality product from its most certain doom. The new facial cleanser marketed by L’OREAL definitely has subtle strengths in some areas, yet fatal weaknesses in others.
Ingredients, in conjunction with a committed skincare regimen, can assist in cleansing dirt and oil from the skin’s surface; however, the other components of the 360 Clean don’t do much to reduce present and future breakouts. The ingredients are sufficiently in sync with the benefits promised by the products advertisers; however, the attached “microscrubber” is not abrasive enough to perform a thorough exfoliating effect on the skin. The microscrubber has the consistency of a gummy bear fruit chew. Because of this fact, it fails the deep cleansing test.
The product’s ingredients, however, do deliver in a reasonable way. With glycerin included in the formula helping to provide a softening effect to the skin, a strong water binder also aids in delivering the cleansing agents to the corneum (top) layer of the skin. Salicyclic acid (a betahydroxy acid) coupled with citric acid (a form of alpha-hydroxy acid) promotes exfoliation and carries intense antiseptic properties, which strips away dirt and oil, purifying the skin and its tissues.
The active ingredients included within this product would be most beneficial in a higher concentrated formula and in conjunction with a textured, more abrasive exfoliating scrubber. If these changes were made, the new L’Oreal 360 Clean would definitely pass the test. Since it does not, it is quite evident that the cleanser simply does not deliver.
