Cleaning your face with oil makes a lot of sense: instead of using detergents and stripping your skin's protective mantle, oil dissolves the makeup and other crud on your face. For the last few years, beauty websites have been promoting the virtues of washing your face with coconut, argan, or olive oil. Micellar cleansers are the next-touted version to emerge, composed of micelles, or tiny oil molecules in a water suspension. ("Micelle" sounds way more impressive than just plain oil & water.) Because your skin isn't being deprived of the beneficial oils along with the unwanted makeup and sunscreen, it will feel not only clean but smooth after a wash. Oil cleansing is ideal for all kinds of skin, including blemished complexions: it may seem intuitively wrong to add oil to oily skin, but magically, it works, and unclogs the pores rather than creating more problems.