SAN ANTONIO – It's a nightly ritual. Women buy all kinds of creams, oil and wipes to strip their faces of foundation, mascara, lipstick and more. So can a couple of products get it all off with just water?
Elizabeth Giguere, makeup artist at Madame Makeup and Hair, and her client, Brittany Adams, agreed to give the $20 Makeup Eraser and $10 Wonder Cloth a try.
"I don't know how well it will work," Adams said. "I don't know if it will take off the mascara."
Adams tried the Wonder Cloth, a rayon and cotton cloth. The company claims it cleans naturally, even removing the reddest lipstick and blackest mascara.
Adams wet the cloth with water and began to wipe her face.
"It's working really good," she said. "I can tell the difference."
But when she got to her eye, she scrubbed and scrubbed for three minutes.
"It worked on the face really well, but it still hasn't removed the rest of my eye makeup," Adams said.
The Makeup Eraser also claims to remove makeup with just water, including removing waterproof mascara in just seconds. It's also chemical-free, according to the manufacturer.
Giguere put on lipstick as bright pink as the polyester cloth itself and soaked the cloth in warm water, as directed.
It removed makeup from her face easily, but the eye makeup took a little more rubbing. The lipstick was no problem.
"My face feels really clean," she said. "I would say it does work. I would use it. I would buy it just for the purpose. You just wash it and keep using it, as opposed to keep buying wipes."
Both cloths are washable and reusable.
The Wonder Cloth was purchased at Bed Bath & Beyond. The Makeup Eraser was available at Sephora.