Anua Heartleaf Pore Control Cleansing Oil Mild, 200ml

An oil cleanser dissolves what water alone leaves behind:

• Makeup: including long-wear base and mascara.
• Sunscreen: the daily layer Nakuru skin needs.
• Oily build-up: the sebum that collects in pores through the day.

Getting this off properly matters for skin that breaks out. See our Acne Kit.

It’s always the very first step, on dry skin:

1. Cleansing oil on a dry face.
2. A water-based cleanser to finish.
3. Toner, serum and moisturizer.

You can use this cleansing oil every day, morning and night.

The hero is heartleaf, or houttuynia cordata extract.

It’s the plant Anua builds its whole heartleaf range around.

Anua’s own site sells the original version, not the Mild one.

So we won’t borrow the original’s test results for this bottle.

What we can say is that heartleaf is in the formula, as the listing shows.

The published ingredient list is short. Alongside heartleaf:

• Sunflower seed oil: a plant oil that helps melt makeup.
• Rosemary leaf oil: an essential oil, worth knowing if you react to them.
• Tocopherol: vitamin E, which helps protect the oils.
• Sorbeth-30 tetraoleate: lets the oil turn milky and rinse off.

A cleansing oil is easy to copy: a clear liquid in a pump bottle.

A fake could hold any oil, and you’d massage it into every pore.

We sell only authentic Korean skincare, sourced from authorized distributors and wholesalers.

Collect it free at our shop at Riri Hub, or get same-day delivery to major towns.

Same-day delivery to major towns applies to orders by 1pm, Monday to Saturday.

1. Start with dry hands and a dry face.
2. Pump 2 to 3 pumps into your hands.
3. Massage gently over your face in circles.
4. Add a little water until the oil turns milky.
5. Rinse well with warm water.
6. Follow with a water-based cleanser.

• Sensitive skin: the Mild version is marked for sensitive skin.
• Essential oils: it has rosemary leaf oil; go slow if they irritate you.
• Fragrance: none is listed in the published ingredient list.
• Everyone: do a patch test before first use.

Try it on a small area for a day or two first. If you get redness, a rash or itching, stop using it.

• Ethylhexyl stearate, cetyl ethylhexanoate: light oils that lift makeup.
• Caprylic/capric triglyceride and triethylhexanoin: smooth emollients.
• Isododecane: a light, fast-spreading solvent.
• Sorbitan sesquioleate: another helper that lets the oil rinse off.
• Heartleaf, rosemary and sunflower: the plant extracts and oils.

We took this list from a published listing, not from Anua.

Please check it against the packaging when your bottle arrives.

The clean feeling comes straight away, from the first rinse.

Over two to four weeks of nightly use, the look of clogged pores usually improves.

Use it every night and judge the result by how your skin feels.

The Mild bottle is marked for sensitive skin. The published ingredient list for the Mild version is shorter and lists no fragrance, while the original lists fragrance. Check the packaging when it arrives.

Yes. Follow the oil with a water-based cleanser to finish the double cleanse.

It can be used every day, morning and night. Many people keep it for the evening, when there's sunscreen and makeup to remove.