Oily skin and sensitive skin are usually sold different cleansers. The oily customer gets a high-foam sulfate wash that leaves the face squeaky and, an hour later, shinier than before, and the sensitive customer gets a low-foam cream that cannot cope with a genuinely greasy T-zone. A large share of real faces are both at once, oily and quick to flush, and that overlap is the customer Winona has spent since 2008 learning to serve through Chinese dermatology clinics and pharmacies. This foam is its attempt to wash that face, and the place to see how it goes about it is the surfactant list, which is more thoughtful than the pump bottle suggests.
There are no sulfates. The cleansing is led by cocamidopropyl betaine, an amphoteric surfactant that is mild by the standards of foaming agents, backed by disodium cocoyl glutamate, an amino-acid surfactant, and three sugar-derived glucosides. Then comes glyceryl oleate, a re-fatting agent that puts back a little of the lipid the wash removes, before the soothing block of bisabolol, allantoin and the brand's signature purslane. Meadowsweet, ginger root and sodium citrate are the trio the marketing credits with oil control. Sodium hyaluronate, a citrate buffer and a phenoxyethanol-ethylhexylglycerin preservative system finish the list. No fragrance, no alcohol, no essential oils, no colour. It reads like a cleanser designed by someone who had read the literature on how surfactants damage the stratum corneum and wanted to avoid the failure modes.
In use it is simple and pleasant. The pump delivers a dense, airy foam that holds its shape in the palm, spreads over wet skin with some cushion, and rinses away in a few splashes. The afterfeel is the tell: not tight, not squeaky, not coated. Someone used to sulfate washes may briefly wonder whether it cleaned, and the answer is that it removed the sebum and the light sunscreen and left the acid mantle alone, which is what a cleanser for oily skin should do and most do not. It is not a makeup remover and does not pretend to be; on days with a full face or a water-resistant sunscreen it belongs as the second cleanse after an oil.
The soothing claim is the more credible half of the name. Bisabolol and allantoin are effective calmatives at low doses and, even in a rinse-off, they take the edge off the betaine for skin that flushes. Purslane, Winona's house botanical, has small clinical trials supporting its anti-inflammatory effect on eczematous skin, which is more than most cleanser extracts can say. Together they make this a foam that redness-prone, acne-prone skin can use twice a day without the tightness that pushes people toward over-moisturising, which is a real service to that customer.
The oil-control claim is where honesty requires a shrug. Meadowsweet contains natural salicylates and tannins, ginger root brings gingerols with antioxidant activity in the lab, and citrate is a buffer. At the doses a cleanser carries and the twenty seconds it stays on the face, they are mild astringents at most. No trial shows any of them lowers sebum output, and nothing here exfoliates inside the pore. What the foam actually does for oiliness is subtler and more useful: by not stripping the skin, it stops the rebound shine that harsh washes provoke, so over a few weeks the face tends to stay matte a little longer. That is a benefit of restraint rather than of ginger.
Two cautions belong in any honest review. Cocamidopropyl betaine is a well-documented contact allergen for a minority, usually through impurities in its manufacture, and it leads this formula; anyone who has reacted to it in other washes should not expect this one to be different. And phenoxyethanol, while a sensible preservative choice, sits unusually high in the list, sixth, which is a sign of a formula built to be robust rather than of anything alarming. Neither is a reason for most people to avoid the product; both are reasons to patch-test if your skin has a history.
Then there is the format. Fifty millilitres for ten dollars is a travel size at a per-millilitre price near premium cleansers, and at two pumps twice a day it is gone in about a month. In China the same foam sells in larger bottles; the English storefront that launched in 2025 carries only this one, and it also carried no customer reviews for it as of September 2026, so English-language feedback is thin. The brand's substantial domestic review base for the product exists, but an outside reader cannot easily audit it.
The verdict is warm but bounded. As a gentle daily foam for oily, combination and reactive skin, this is a well-constructed cleanser that does the unglamorous thing right: it cleans without stripping. It will not treat acne, shrink pores or change oil production, and the botanical oil-control narrative should be read as flavour text. Buy it for the surfactants, use a leave-on for the pores, and hope the bigger bottle arrives.
