I’ve already featured this cleanser (in my best of the beauty launches video) but Emma Hardie’s new Moringa Light Cleansing Gel is so utterly glorious that it absolutely needs a post of its own. For posterity. And for the fact that I think I might like this cleanser as much as (if not more than) than the original Moringa Cleansing Balm, which is quite the statement to make considering how much I’ve raved about the balm over the years!

To recap: the original Moringa Balm is one of the loveliest cleansers ever made. I first reviewed it nearly nine years ago (original post here) and was genuinely taken aback at how a mere cleanser could be a thing of such seductive beauty. It opened my eyes to proper feel-good luxury beauty – the sort of luxury beauty that’s not about branding or labels or packaging, but about formulas so enjoyable and pleasing you can’t wait to do things to your face. You need a very small amount of the Moringa Cleansing Balm, which you scoop out from the pot with fingertips, and it melts down to a rich oil that you massage into the skin to break down dirt and makeup. It’s fine over eyes, it rinses off clean, but it’s also the heady exotic scent (natural) and luscious texture (thick and unctuous) that I’d imagine keeps people coming back for more.

Cleansing with this balm is an event, not a chore – sliding it over the skin feels as though a professional beauty treatment is in progress, a million...