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Guilty here 
but I don’t look like a raccoon by morning 
I use baby oil to remove my makeup.
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Guilty.
Did that last night.
I just wash my face, tone and moisturize. I need to go wash the makeup off my face right now.
I'm usually good with cleaning and removing make-up. But it was one of those nights where I worked over 21 hours.. I didn't even take-off the huge jhumka's.. and for the very first time I slept on my back too!
I use Clinique's make-up remover though.. and wash my face right after.
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I use the clarisonic makeup remover brush. Its fast and easy.
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I use baby wipes - they're economical and very effective, including for the eyes.
I have to remove everything before I go to sleep. I use unfragranced baby wipes for sensitive skin, I find them to be much more gentle than facial wipes and they're cheaper as well. Then I remove my eye makeup by soaking cotton pads in either olive oil or baby oil.
Erg, I do it quite often, even though I try not to.
I don't like moistened cleansing wipes though, I feel they really dry out the skin.
Otherwise, I use Olive Oil to get the bulk of the eyemakeup off. Then I cleanse my face with an Olay cleansing facecloth (where you have to wet it with water, I find these quite mild) and use it to clean off all the black gunk around my eyes. The soap from the cloth plus the olive oil around my eyes work together to get it all off.
Afterwards, I spritz my face with tea tree water or rose water. I also spray a little onto a cosmetic pad to moisten it and then drop a drop of Olive Oil on top of this and use it to moisturise areas that get dry.
No spots and I wake up with soft, smooth skin.
So, do you not use a night cream at all? I'm thinking of working my night mousturiser out of my routine...I don't think it does much and I like your idea of the rose water plus a drop of olive oil.
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I've heard bad things about baby oil or other petroleum based products around the eye area... dunno how true they are though.
Syraa - I used to use my regular moisturiser.. I guess I'm not yet feeling as old as I'm getting, to worry about all that stuff yet :p
I've been using cold pressed extra virgin olive oil for about 2 months now. I keep it in a little pipette dropper bottle. Sometimes in the morning, after showing I have stubborn dry patches that I used to put aloe vera on but it used to take a while of rubbing it in to sort them out. Now, I do the same thing that I do at night and it sorts them out in 2 secs... only on the extra dry bits though, use my moisturiser everywhere else.
I do this all the time! It's terrible, if I do it too much I always end up breaking out.
ditto