Buy the Cetaphil Gentle Cleanser.

One is the daily essential your skin needs, the other is an occasional extra you'd add on top of it.

What was compared

  • Cetaphil Gentle Cleanser · $29.00
  • Goldfaden MD Doctor's Scrub Ruby Crystal Microderm · $38.00

Five reasons

  1. 1. The one you will actually use every day

    Cetaphil is made for washing your face morning and night on sensitive skin. Goldfaden is a crystal scrub, the kind of physical exfoliant dermatologists say to limit to two or three times a week. A wash you use 14 times a week beats a scrub you use three times, however good those three uses are.

  2. 2. Fifteen times cheaper for the ounce you use

    Cetaphil runs about 1.45 dollars an ounce in a bottle you empty daily. Goldfaden lists at 22.35 dollars an ounce for a jar you only dip into occasionally. Keeping sensitive skin clean every day should not cost fifteen times more per ounce.

  3. 3. The gentle formula sensitive skin actually needs

    Cetaphil is fragrance-free, hypoallergenic and dermatologist recommended specifically for sensitive and dry skin. Goldfaden is a scrub built around abrasive crystals, exactly the category dermatologists tell sensitive-skin owners to use sparingly, not swap in for their daily wash.

  4. 4. Twenty times the proof this formula holds up

    Both sit at 4.7 stars, but Cetaphil carries that rating across nearly 16,000 reviews against Goldfaden's under 750. That is a far deeper track record that the gentle formula works consistently, not a smaller newer audience still finding out.

  5. 5. Yes, the scrub smooths texture. Cleanse first.

    Goldfaden's beads do buff away dead skin in one use, that result is real. But it only comes up two or three times a week, and you still need a gentle daily cleanser under it. Unless you already have a cleanser and want an occasional polish on top, that is a later purchase, not most people's first one.

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