- Absorbs excess oil
- Gives the formula its color
- What it does
- Used in clay masks, cleansing foams and pore packs to draw out excess oil and leave skin matte and clearer-looking.
- How often
- Usually weekly or a few times a week in masks and pore packs, while cleansers and moisturizers can be daily and cleansing balms are for evenings. Makeup is worn when wanted; the retinol set starts its retinoids gradually on separate evenings and finishes morning care with sunscreen.
Pairs with
Ingredients that sit well beside kaolin in a routine.
Use apart
What we recommend keeping out of the same session as kaolin, and why.
AHAAvoid together
A kaolin mask soaks up oil, and an AHA the same day can leave skin tight and dry. Use them on different days.
BHAAvoid together
A kaolin mask and BHA both draw oil out of pores, so used together they can leave skin feeling stripped. Give each its own day.
RetinolAvoid together
A kaolin mask leaves skin a little drier, and retinol that night makes it drier still. Keep retinol for the nights you skip the mask.
Products with kaolin
beplain Mung Bean Pore Clay Mask
ISK 3,000BARULAB Black Clay Cleansing Foam
ISK 1,700BRMUD Recovery Mud Mask
ISK 1,900 ISK 2,500
Cell Fusion C Melting Cleansing Foam
ISK 1,900
I'm from Rice Glow Peel Off Mask
ISK 3,500
Isntree Mugwort Calming Clay Mask
ISK 3,000
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