The Best Cleansing Oils for the Softest (and Cleanest) Skin of Your Life

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise.Want clean, soft-as-hell skin? Then you absolutely need to incorporate a cleansing oil into your skincare routine. Cleansing oils or balms are commonly used as the first part of a two-step K-beauty process called double-cleansing—i.e., my favorite way to thoroughly clean my face. Cleansing oils call on water-soluble oils to gently dissolve a day’s worth of makeup, oil, and grime without irritating your skin or stripping it dry. It leaves your face nice and ready (kinda like a soft, dewy little canvas) for the rest of your products, and every skin type can benefit from one (even you oily or acne-prone folks!). All of this is to say that you definitely need a cleansing oil in your lineup, which is why I gathered the 16 best cleansing oil formulas of all damn time, personally tested and reviewed them (yes, rlly), and called on a few of my trusty board-certified dermatologists, Mona Gohara, MD,...