A Perfect Cleanse for All – Glowbar Enters the Skin Care Fray with the Expert Cleanser

On the final day of Skin Care Awareness Month, it’s only fitting that we close out the focus on our favorite self-care niche with the most important step for a clear and glowing complexion. Whether prone to chronic dryness, battling excess sebum and congestion, or in need of a little glow-up, it all starts with a proper cleanse. Getting hydration into the dermis, clearing congestion, and uncovering radiance all call for efficient removal of debris, dead skin, pollution, and gunk while maintaining the skin barrier. In other words, the right cleanse is all about balance and consistency morning and night. This commitment to regular, efficient, and balancing skin care is the ethos that motivated CEO Rachel Liverman to found Glowbar’s facial spas, and now it’s first launch into skin care with the Expert Cleanser.

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Glowbar’s Expert Cleanser, formulated with the same skin care expertise as the customized 30-minute facials, does everything a clean, sulfate-free face wash should do and then some. The concentrated gel foams easily and gets to work immediately melting away makeup, sebum, and debris, while the anti-inflammatory botanical White Willow purges pores. The addition of just enough Glycolic Acid provides mild exfoliation, as the gentler PHA Gluconolactone rounds out the cleansing function with gentle, skin soothing to protect the dermal layer.

Beneficial for all skin types, for AM and/or PM routines, Expert Cleanser leaves the pores pristine and the complexion soothed and primed for the next steps in a targeted skin care routine. In the hottest, most humid stretch of the summer, it’s the only cleanser. I used it day and night to deal with the surge of sebum and ward off breakouts. I plan to keep it in rotation all year long.

The Expert Cleanser is available at any of Glowbar’s many locations in NY, Boston, DC, and Connecticut, as well as with or without the affordable $65 monthly facial membership.

Gesha-Marie Bland

STAFF WRITER & SENIOR EDITOR

Not bland at all. Gesha-Marie Bland is an essayist, Vanity Fair-published film and television writer, and unrepentant beauty junkie who jumpstarted her career at NYU’s Master’s Program in Cinema Studies. In homage to her beauty icons Jeanne Moreau, Dolly Parton, and Grace Jones, she is forever in search of the perfect cat-eye liner, a killer pair of heels, and unforgettable statement accessories. Currently NYC-based, this dual American-French citizen still wears all-black and has a soft spot for clean beauty, pharmaceutical-grade actives, and most ingredients sourced from vineyards in the south of France. She loves New Wave cinema, Mary Gaitskill’s fiction, Spain, and matcha double-shots. After selling "The Ripper," her Alexander McQueen-Issie Blow biopic to the Cannes-winning production company Maven Pictures, she remains convinced fashion and couture are the next frontiers for edgy cinematic stories.