Trilogy Make-Up Be Gone Cleansing Balm Review

I, like many others, received this in the September BRBB and I was stoked - Everything I've tried of Trilogy's is awesome, so I was so pleased to see this in the box. It came with a gorgeously soft facial cloth as well, and I love it!

The product is in a 80ml jar which is surprisingly heavy for the product, but as a balm I suppose it's to be expected. The lid twists off and you're greeted with a lovely pale golden yellow color and the heavenly smell of roses hits you slowly, faster if you decide to have a good sniff.

The balm is exactly that, a balm. It's thick, but it melts easily at the touch and you can easily scoop some out. However that's what I don't like about this product, I prefer my cleansers with a pump as it seems slightly more hygienic.

This rubs in smoothly to the face and you don't notice it getting rid of your makeup until its gone! However. I don't think it does a very good job, as I feel like I have to use more than the recommended amount to get my mascara off. It doesn't melt my mascara like Bossy does, which was my favorite at the time. I used a maybe half a teaspoon, most of it on my eyes, and my mascara stayed firmly put.

This also hurt my eyes, but that was the only place it hurt so I must not have taken it all off. It was a lovely product but sadly it had a poor performance and I wouldn't buy it with my own money.

When the last beauty box was announced, I was hoping this product was in it. It had been released around the same time, and the feedback I had heard made me really excited to try this product. So when I opened the BRBB and found this in there, I was over the moon.

This cleanser comes in a brown tub (very similar packaging to the rest of the trilogy range, with a brown jar and a white and red label). This product also comes with a small face cloth, a nice touch but personally, this doesn't add any value to the product for me... and I also wish the face cloth wasn't a cream colour because it got dirty once, and never looked clean again.

The lid twists off the tub to reveal a solid product, which is a yellow colour, with an organic smell to it. It is a balm in all senses of the word, and it pretty easy to scoop out to use. However... I hate putting my fingers in products. I prefer pumps although this would clearly not work for this product but I would have preferred this product to come with a spoon or spatula instead of a face cloth because once my hands go in (even though they are clean), all I can imagine is the germs in the little tub, and it’s off putting.

This balm melts quickly upon touch, and is easy to smooth over face without the mess of it running down your arms (like oil cleansers can do). I find it is pretty effective at getting off foundation, but it does struggle with eye makeup, especially liquid eyeliner and mascara. After rubbing, rubbing and rubbing some more, it does remove most of it. But it takes a long time, and a lot of product... and when I use it on my eyes, it does seem to irritate them, so it’s just not worth the hassle for me personally.

Overall, this makeup cleanser is nice at removing foundation, but doesn't do a great job at removing long-wearing eye makeup, and can cause irritation for me. I also find I have to use quite a bit of product to get the job done, and find this product leaves a greasy feeling that is heavier than other cleaning balms I have used, so I won't be repurchasing this product again

I received this in my last brbb. Quite hapoy with this being inside as its a pricey wee gem. However it took me some time to use it. A rose tinted plastic tub that has the illusion it's a glass tub with a screw top cap lid with he Trilogy branded label this is in cased with a little organic face cloth that has a slight lint feel to it in the softest possible way. The contents looks like a clear Vaseline formula. It's solid as a rock but it melts to the touch making it easier& appealing to use. The scent is subtle which I can't give a description to it. Upon use it melts down immediately from the warmth of your fingers and easily melts the makeup as you work it into your face. This wonderful balm is non abrasive invasive & non allergenic to my combo skin type & it moves the most stubborn makeup from lipsticks to mascara shadows &foundation;. It has a silk feel&wipes; of with the wash cloth all the makeup you see the makeup melt as you work the balm into your skin,it's quite something to witness. As it has a slimey feel to it you can start to doubt it almost immediately the makeup is lifting up or melting either either. My con though is that it's a procedure yah know rub it in then wash it off with a face cloth so I've kept me face cloths for my own use because my mascara has stained the cloths. Really nothing big to complain about because my skin gets a good effralarge while removing my makeup. For me there is no real con all pros& a little goes a long way 2 months day use has seen me use 1 third of product.

I love Trilogy products, using them on my skin always feels like a real treat. I have to admit I was a bit dubious about using a balm to remove my make up as I generally use balms on my lips and body and lean towards a soap cleanser or oil...however I found this product felt really lovely on my skin. The balm melts away make up as it is massaged in the skin and it has a lovely faint smell of coconut. I used make up wipes to remove the product wet with Micellar cleansing water.I found i needed to use a couple of cleanses before the wipes came away completely clean, however my skin glowed and I felt like I'd had a nourishing mask on afterwards rather than a squeaky clean. I would recommend this product if you fancy a bit of pampering and you have a bit of time on your hands.

This product I can seriously not live with out. I use this religiously every night to remove my makeup. I have been looking into purchasing a good makeup remover for a while now as I was sick of using wipes that did not completely remove my makeup and I wanted to really stick to committing myself to remove my makeup properly every night before bed.

I picked this up in the last beauty vault as I have heard so many good things about the Trilogy brand. At first I didn't know what to expect as the product reminded me of beewax. I don't typically reach for products with this consistency. I gave it a go and it was really waxy to massage into my skin. It comes with a face wash cloth which I believe is made with bamboo. It is so soft and gentle on my skin and I found that this product completely removes my makeup no matter how thick it is.

Overall I find this product wonderful and 100% effective. A little bit of product defiantly goes a long way. I recommend this product to everyone, I believe it is worth trying out.

Balm cleansers aren't my go-to makeup removers, simply because they're not the tidiest way to take off your makeup. When I do want to really treat my skin and take care of it, though, I'll use a balm cleanser like this because it's rich and nourishing. The Trilogy cleansing balm doesn't strip the skin at all and it really feels like it's moisturising and conditioning the skin while taking off your makeup.

Only slight inconvenience - you need to use a cloth. So it's lucky this product comes with one! I appreciate that thought from Trilogy, although you'll need more than one cloth if you're removing makeup daily.

I wanted to love this one, as I've loved most Trilogy products I've tried, but this one is just a little too much effort for me.

In theory there's a lot to love about this creamy balm. It smells delicious and leaves my face feeling smooth, clean and not stripped too heavily after use.

On the downside though, I'm not a big fan of having a pot that I have to dig my fingers into to get the product out. It just doesn't feel very hygienic to me, even though I was my hands before use. I have long nails and getting a sticky balm stuck under them grosses me out.

I'm also a fan of very heavy eye black makeup. Using this to remove it is just too messy and a bit too much of a hassle for me. It takes a fair bit of work and lot of smearing black inky mess all around my eyes for a mediocre result. I'm also not a fan of the way it feels on my eyelashes. Now I use a separate micellar water to take my eye makeup off first, but it seems a bit silly to me to have to take my eye makeup off before I can use a makeup remover. I felt like I needed to really scrub to make this work and occasionally I'll follow with a separate cleanser to remove the residue.

I guess in summary I like the way this makes my skin feel after I have used it, but it's hard to motivate myself to go to this much effort right before bed. Once I use this up I'll probably return to my easy old routine of eye makeup remover/micellar water followed by a cream cleanser.

I flipping love this product! Its now my go to cleanser! I have always done an initial cleanse with an oil, preferably coconut - due to all the goodies inside but also because its fab at breaking down makeup, and then I do a second cleanse with another cleanser (but this really does depend on the amount of slap on my face). However, now that I have come across this wee gem, I'm addicted. First off, the wee cloth, cuteness factor 10/10 right there. Next is the amount of product... lasting for aggggges! Then there is the heavenly smell of beeswax and other goodies galore, delishy!! The packaging states that it is activated by water but more accurately, it is activated by the heat and manipulation of your hands, working the product over your skin. It also has the bonus advantage of providing a really lovely base for a facial massage. I really love it, have repurchased and have definitely recommended to friends..

I love Trilogy and I love cleansing balms so when Trilogy announced they were releasing this, I couldn't wait to get my hands on it! However, I decided to be patient for once as I had a suspicion it would turn up in the BRBB that was just to be released! So you can imagine how thrilled I was when I opened said BRBB to see this beauty sitting inside! To me, this alone was worth the cost of the box and everything else was a bonus GWP.

It comes in a screw top plastic jar which is easy to get into. The brown frosted plastic makes it look more like glass but without the risk of smashing the whole jar when you have slippery hands. I've only just realised from other reviews that Trilogy recommend just using 1/4 teaspoon (there's no way I can read that when I'm ready to remove makeup and without my glasses on lol) I definitely used a lot more but the jar has still lasted me a good few months (I've alternated this with other cleansers so hard to give an exact time frame) I currently use a waterproof mascara and discovered when doing a 'Save or Splurge' review for BR that you do need to apply oil cleansers very generously to get it off. I did find this got the rest of my makeup off quickly but I did need to rub it in a lot to get waterproof mascara off.

As well as being a fan of balm cleansers I also love hot cloth cleansing so I was also excited by the face cloth that came with this. However I quickly went back to my old favourite flannels as I find them better size wise and for removing the cleanser. As others have noted, the cloth is really hard to get clean which I've never found with a normal towelling flannel.

What I love is the smell and they fact it is all natural oils - no nasty mineral oils here! I leaves my skin feeling cleansed but moisturised at the same time. What I don't love so much is having to rub my eyes to get my mascara off. This also left my eyes watery and blurry afterwards. At first I was a bit concerned about how blurry my eyesight had become without glasses then realised it was the cleanser causing this lol. Now I have read the label it says 'avoid contact with eyes'. I guess they have to put that but seems to defeat the purpose of a makeup remover to me.

This is a good product but for me, it just doesn't measure up to my all-time favourite cleanser but then I have yet to find anything that does (Lush's Ultrabland in case you're wondering!)