Heimish All Clean Balm

I was tired of makeup removers that left me doing all the work. 

I recently tried Fenty Skin’s Melt Awf. And while I didn’t mind how ineffective it was when I only wore makeup here and there, once I started wearing it more often, I needed something way more efficient. After a long day, I want to double cleanse and be done—once with a makeup remover, once with my face cleanser. That’s it.

So, I went searching for an inexpensive cleansing balm that could actually get the job done. I had some very specific requirements: no squeeze bottle, for one. I also figured I needed to specify that I wanted it thick, because technically, Melt Awf is considered a balm too, but it wasn’t nearly as thick as I needed. I wanted that dense, grease-like texture that feels like it’s putting in work the moment it hits your skin.

I sifted through a bunch of reviews of recommended products and decided on the Heimish All Clean Balm.

The cleansing balm came in a neat jar with a little spatula for scooping. This was actually my first time using a cleansing product that came in a jar. I’m usually a pump kind of girl, but I knew the texture I was looking for wouldn’t go through a pump. And I have a personal vendetta against squeezable tubes. You always end up wasting product unless you cut them open, and I’m just not in the mood for that. Plus, a cut-open squeeze bottle doesn’t go with my bathroom aesthetic. So, jar it is.

When I opened the jar for the first time and saw how pretty the balm looked, I didn’t even want to scoop it and disturb perfection. But perfect things rarely last, so I dug in. When I scooped the product, the balm flaked like a softened bar of soap.

The first few times I definitely used too much. I quickly learned that a small scoop goes a long way. My scoops went from quarter-sized to dime-sized quickly, and I was instantly reminded of all the times my mom told me I use too much product.

On my face, it had that thick, grease-like feel, just like I wanted. Personally, I need my makeup cleanser to be thick for me to really feel like it’s breaking through the gunk. I wanted to see exactly what Heimish was on, so I wiped my face with a washcloth after one cleanse. The result? The same amount of leftover makeup I got after two or three washes with Melt Awf plus my face cleanser. That’s a win.

Would I buy it again? Hell yeah. I feel like it’d be greedy of me to try and find a better makeup-removing cleanser. The gap between what I want and what the Heimish All Clean Balm delivers is so marginal, it honestly wouldn’t be worth the time and energy it’d take to find something better.