This cleansing oil has “speedy” in the name, so I’m going to write a speedy review. I bought it for under $10 in hopes that it would be an affordable oil cleanser option and I was totally disappointed. Kose Softymo Speedy Cleansing Oil worked spectacularly as a hair cleansing oil (more on that), but it was really not good for my face.
Kose Softymo Speedy Cleansing Oil Review
What it is: oil cleanser that mixes with your natural oils, dirt, makeup, and sunscreen to dissolve everything and then emulsifies on contact with water to rinse it all away.
Other first cleansers I’ve reviewed:
- Etude House O-LE-MONG Sherbet Cleanser Review
- Pixi Double Cleanse Review
- Leejiham (LJH) Dr’s Care Cleansing Oil Review (my favorite)
- Sunday Riley Blue Moon Tranquility Cleansing Balm Review
- A Review of 15 First-Step Korean Oil (and other) Cleansers
How to use it: apply a few pumps of the oil to dry, gross skin, massage it in, rinse well with water.
Where to put it in your routine: in the first (oil-soluble) cleanser slot. Need a basic outline of when to use your products? Here you go:
Ingredients: Mineral Oil, PEG-8 Glyceryl Isostearate, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, Cyclomethicone, Water, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Isostearic Acid, Glycerin, Phenoexyethanol. CosDNA analysis.
Ingredient breakdown: the only common trigger ingredient here is Jojoba Seed Oil, which rates 2 out of 5 as a potential acne trigger and 0-2 out of 5 as a possible irritant. Mineral oil gets a lot of bad press, but I’m not sold on the idea that it’s bad in an oil cleanser (unless your skin specifically hates mineral oil).
What type of skin might like this: tough as fuck and probably not using acids or retinoids. I love a good, deep oil cleanse, but this took it too deep for me.
Packaging: cute pink and blue sturdy bottle with a good pump.
Smell: maybe the slightest whiff of something slightly chemically if you jam your nose right in it, but nothing that I could really pick up when using in daily life.
Price: under $10 on Amazon Prime (which makes me even sadder that it didn’t deliver for me).
Value: 230ml bottle
What’s good: low price, good size bottle, no scent, emulsifies well, and rinses cleanly.
What’s not good: This cleansing oil stripped my skin to shit, which is wild because that’s not really something I’ve experienced with most of them (the exception being Sunday Riley’s C.E.O. C + E Micro-Dissolve Cleansing Oil, which felt like hell, possibly due to an ingredient sensitivity). Given that my skin can usually take a lot in the cleansing oil department, I’m just not confident recommending this to other skincare fans.
Will I repurchase it: only for using to wash my hair.
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Where to buy full-size: Amazon
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Ah I have the yellow/deep one and was considering to get this one. Glad I didn’t. I’ve been using the yellow one since June and it hasn’t stripped my skin. That said, this is the only second oil cleanser I have tried, the other one being Body Shop’s chamomile oil which I found too thick & greasy.
I always enjoy your reviews!
I might try that one next! This one was great on my hair, so the fact that it left my face kinda broken was a shock! Thank you for reading!
Wow, I love the stuff. I had the opposite experience and I have been using lactic and glycolic acids every day. Perhaps I haven’t noticed the skin stripping bc of the double cleansing…? Ahhh definitely ymmv!
It may be due to some sort of weird ingredient sensitivity I have, it wouldn’t be the first time. 🙁
You can use oil to clean your hair? I’d love to see a blog post on how to do that.
oh man that sucks and its crazy cause its totally the opposite for me, out of all the oil cleansers ive tried is the most gentle and i have sensitive dehydrated skin, as a matter of fact i only use it on days when i havent worn make up cause i dont even think is very good at removing that, btw i tried the orange version of it and it was waaaayyy rougher :/ go figure
You’re the first person I’ve ever met who didn’t like this stuff. I’ve been using it for years and hooked just about everyone I know on the different variations of it. Maybe it’s an ingredient thing?
I am on my second bottle and I love this cleansing oil. I have tried many cleansing oils before, and this one is cheap, lasts forever (9 months with almost daily use), no fragrance, rinses off without residue and doesn’t strip my skin.
Yeah – this is the only oil cleanser that rinses cleanly for me, which is why I keep coming back to it! I double cleanse as well though with the super gentle Cerave, so that may also mitigate some of the effects. I also use acids almost every day, but much more gentle. Good to know it works well on the hair though – it’s so cheap I may look into it.
Interesting! I love this cleansing oil and I find many others too stripping or too pore-clogging. I’ve tried the Kose Softymo Deep and it was a zitty nightmare. I’m using lactic acid and I usually have pretty sensitive skin but this cleansing oil doesn’t seem to cause any issues. I love how cleanly it rinses but maybe that makes it too stripping for you? Everyone’s skin is so different so it’s really interesting to see how someone’s HG can be terrible for someone else to use.
Side note – I adore your blog and have learned so much from it. Thanks for doing what you do!
-Elizabeth
Humorously, I bought this one because of your hair-washing post. I never did get to that–but I find myself reaching for this oil, over my old DHC, all the time. Don’t know why; perhaps it’s the pump, or I like the smell better, or something. Thus far, it hasn’t aggravated my face, BUT, I should add that I have mature, drying skin, that still breaks out on occasion (ain’t adult acne grand? You, too, can fight wrinkles AND cystic acne, at the same time…), with some oily bits in the center, like many women.
And hell…even if it does irritate my skin–there’s always my hair! 🙂