Cleansing is one of the most important aspects of any skin-care routine. Washing your face twice daily is crucial when it comes to effectively eliminating excess dirt, oil, and product buildup — all while ensuring your skin stays healthy and hydrated. While not every cleanser may be suitable for your skin type, there are hundreds to choose from: and, best of all, you need not spend a ton of hard-earned cash on a quality cleanser. In fact, some of the best face washes on the market can be found at Target.
Not sure where to start? We’ve got you covered. Regardless of your skin type, Adam Friedman, MD, a Washington, D.C.-based, board-certified dermatologist, previously told Allure that folks should “go for cleansers with humectants, which help keep water in the skin, and prebiotics, as they help contribute to a healthy microbiome.” One such humectant to look for is glycerin, which is famous for its moisturizing properties. Moreover, this skin-care staple is a common ingredient in most — if not all — top-notch facial cleansers.
To help narrow down your options even further — and present you with options that won’t cause a fortune — we’ve compiled a list of the absolute best face washes you can buy at Target. Between derm-approved selects and Best of Beauty and Readers’ Choice Award winners, you can’t go wrong by snapping up any of these cleansers, especially when you consider their wallet-friendly price points.
Vanicream Unscented Gentle Facial Cleanser
Byoma Creamy Jelly Cleanser
The Vanicream Unscented Gentle Facial Cleanser is great for those with sensitive skin, thanks to its gentle paraben-, fragrance-, and lanolin-free formula infused with glycerin. New Orleans-based, board-certified dermatologist Mamina Turegano, MD, previously recommended this face wash, adding that it’s suitable for those prone to allergies, dryness, and eczema.
Byoma Creamy Jelly Cleanser recently racked up a 2022 Best of Beauty Award for its unique, sensitive-skin-friendly formula, as it’s non-comedogenic and soap-, fragrance,- and alcohol-free. Upon contact with water, the texture transforms from a bouncy jelly to a velvety cream for a sensorial experience. We especially love that it’s spiked with fatty acids, glycerin, and ceramides, as well as antioxidant-loaded staples like licorice root and camellia sinensis leaf extracts (a.k.a. green tea), so skin is never left feeling stripped.
CeraVe Acne Foaming Cream Cleanser
Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser
CeraVe’s Acne Foaming Cream Face Cleanser snapped up a Best of Beauty Award back in 2021, and we’re still singing its praises over a year later. That’s because this acne-banishing face wash contains four percent benzoyl peroxide, which Jessica Krant, MD, a board-certified dermatologist in New York City, previously described as “both antimicrobial, killing bacteria and other organisms, and an exfoliant, helping to unclog pores and gently debride the surface layer of skin.” The cream-to-foam formula also contains barrier-strengthening ceramides, hyaluronic acid to lock in moisture, and niacinamide to soothe.
