Bidan Cleansing Oil 비단 클렌징 오일

About this object설명

A featherweight first step.

The cleansing oil is the most overlooked object in a skincare practice. Most are too heavy, leaving the skin feeling coated; most strip in the rinse, leaving the skin feeling raw. Ours, after a year of formulation, sits somewhere in the middle: warm enough to lift makeup, sunscreen, and the residue of a day, but light enough that the skin underneath is fully its own when you finish.

The base is rice bran oil, a soft and slightly green oil milled in Jeollanam-do. To it we add cold-pressed Jeju camellia — our first ingredient, pressed by the haenyeo women's cooperative in Hyeopjae village (read more on the ingredients page). The camellia gives the oil its capacity for warmth and its faint, almost imperceptible scent.

To emulsify cleanly with water, we use a single non-ionic surfactant at the lowest concentration that achieves a complete rinse. This is the part of the formulation that took longest. Most cleansing oils use surfactant concentrations of around 12%; ours sits at 4.8%. The rinse is slower; the finish is cleaner.

Used as the first step of the practice, the oil sets the tone for everything that follows. We recommend a full minute of massage on dry skin before any water. The minute is the formulation. The oil is the excuse.