"This is a really gentle cleanser-although I like foaming cleansers, I keep coming back to this one, which is not foaming because it works so well. I have a tendency to break out, now I'm realizing, as a reaction to my cleanser. This one is so gentle to the skin, and is especially great if you use a retinol or other exfoliating product regularly. It is very calming to my skin which is normally irritated by extreme cold in winter, extreme heat from hot air heating and by the sun in summer."