ZA Deep Cleansing Oil

This review here is especially for a dear blogger friend of mine, Isabella @ The Muse. She has always been helpful in giving cosmetic advices and also lovely swatches and FOTDs! A must read blog! Love love love her very much!

ZA Deep Cleansing Oil

ZA is a sub-brand of Shiseido, if you didn’t know. The quality of the products arecommendable although one or two might stray off a bit and goes into the so-so or bad quality side. But don’t worry, this is of their star items (for me that is) and I’m loving every drop of it!

It’s liquid. Of course it’s liquid, it’s a cleansing oil! Okay, lame joke. It does not smell, not anything strong or smelly or nice smelling that I know of, so for those who likes the nice smell Shu Uemura’s cleansing oil, STAY AWAY from this one. You will be so disappointed. But for those who are not bothered by the smell as long it’s not smelly, this should be just right.

As you know, cleansing oil are to be used on DRY clean hands on a DRY face, see how I emphasize on the word “DRY”? Because if you use it on a wet hand or wet face, you will emulsify the cleansing oil before you can even use it to clean your face!

How to tell whether it is emulsified or not? The oil is transparent, but once mixed with water, it becomes a milky white colour. So, now you know.

Initially oily, but after you slowly massage the oil to get rid of those pesky dirt and stuff and of course, make up, you will need to rinse your face with clean water a few times. After that, soft clean skin! No need for double cleansing! Sunblock, makeup base, foundation, concealer, powder, blusher, lippy, all gone in just one step!

Although I love this cleansing oil, this product does have it’s flaws. If you did not rinse it off cleanly, the residue might cloud your eye for a few second, all your visuals will be blurry like there’s smoke or haze around. But don’t worry, after a while it goes off. So do be careful when using this if you are a contact lens user. It’s best to remove eye makeup with a eye makeup remover. If you need a recommendation, I will be reviewing that soon! So stay tune!

Other than that, nothing else. I love the fact that using this consistently on the nose can help reduce blackheads. I used this every week on my blackhead-filled nose, and a week later, my sister was telling me my nose looks a lot more smoother! Miracle! Maybe because it’s an oil based product so it can get rid of oil-based blackheads easier? Just my guess though.

And for the price of this and the availability, I am going to re-purchase this each time I run out of this! And the best part, sometimes during the Watsons sales you can get 2 bottles for the price of 1! Great deal isn’t it? Grab it real quick when it’s on sale, it’s almost always Out Of Stock!

12 thoughts on “ZA Deep Cleansing Oil”

omg plue!

I wants it now hehe

Sounds great!!!!!!!!!

Fab review!

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This is quite all right a cleansing oil. When I ran out of my Kanebo Freshel C’s cleansing oil, and it was out of stock at Sasa, I headed to Watsons to get try this out. It smells a bit odder than the Freshel C, but it didn’t bother me. In terms of cleaning makeup off, it does the job. I still prefer Kanebo’s (price-wise, in fact, I think Kanebo’s cheaper per ml, but I can’t be 100% sure). I’d still recommend ZA’s as a backup though.

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hi izzy dear!

it’s very cheap compared to Shu’s! Do let me know when you have tried it out!

And thanks for the comment darling! Your reviews are fabulous!!!

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hello tine!

thanks for dropping by!

i’ve heard about freshel c cleansing oil, but haven’t got to try it. it’s around rm40++ or so is it?

might try it out if I get the chance, i stock up on ZA’s usually

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I’ve tried Cybercolour/Cybercolor’s before. Loved it! Quite pricey actually, RM49.90. I bought when it has 20% discount.

and yes, cleansing oils do help in reducing blackheads! XD

But I was afraid that it will be too strong for every day use, so I’m using milk cleansers now since I only use blushers and concealers most of the time.

I heard that ZA’s double cleansing max is nice too! and also their hydrating gel. Do give them a try.

I really want to try this ZA cleansing oil/freshel/etc. There are simply too many brands to try out there! Too bad I only have one face. It takes a million years to finish one bottle.

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hi there!

i have bad history with CC's makeup remover, so i doubt i wanna get them >_<

i find milk cleansers are too mild for me. so i stick with cleansing oil. hehe. call my skin hardy.

za's double cleansing max is not too bad. but it's oily after u rinse off with water. i hate that since i need to do a double cleansing to get rid of the oil. their hydrating gel eh, my sis is using, slightly a tad too oily and too sticky for me. i am using loreal hydrafresh, the formula suits me much better! it's my draft though!

freshel is a sub brand of kanebo, i doubt it will be bad. i am tempted to try too! so many things to buy, so little money

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wow..you’ve lots of drafts lol

you mean you don’t wash your face again after using cleansing oil?

freshel was featured on Ladies First few months ago, when the panels are comparing between different brands of oil cleansers. The review wasn’t that good though. But anyway, everyone has different type of skin right?

and now i’m wondering whether etude house’s skincare will be good or not..hmm..

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yeah… plenty of drafts on my hand

i don’t do double cleansing after using cleansing oil. it’s clean enough and no residue on the face.

etude house ya? the muse has given some good reviews bout them, but like u said, different skin, so it might be diff for me. btw, izzit open yet in sunway?

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