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We’re finally getting in front of the camera instead of hiding behind it🫣 Cami & Freya here👋🏼 The founder friends behind POLSO. Who are we? High school besties, and former skincare victims (St. Ives Apricot Scrub… we see you 👀). After years of sending acne selfies back and forth, sharing years' worth of skincare struggles, we realised that no serum, peel, or facial could fix the one thing undoing it all… Our bacteria-filled bath towels. 🦠 Realising we could have saved hundreds (maybe thousands) on so-called ‘miracle’ products, we found the solution was SO much simpler than we had been led to believe (aka a clean face towel). So, we created POLSO Cleansing Cloths to make skincare simple, clean, and easy on the budget. Most importantly, to finally clear our skin naturally, once and for all. 💚

“So really, every time you think you’re wiping your face off, you’re putting your face in a towel full of e-coli - you might as well stick your head in a toilet and flush it.” - said microbiologist Dr. Charles Gerba. “We thought towels were very dry, there wouldn’t be a lot of bacteria. We thought we’d have a hard time finding them, but they were jumping out at us actually there were so many in there,” said Gerba. He’s always looking for where germs are hiding and his new study shows, once again, they’re where we would least expect. “So, just think about it. You wash your hands and you dry it in the towel and then maybe you had some e-coli or salmonella on there and they get into the towel. It’s wet. It’s moist. They grow. You may start out with a few, but in a few days you’ve got millions is what we found out,” What kinds of germs? Gerba said he tested 500 towels from across the United States and Canada. “Actually, they’re loaded with fecal bacteria. E-coli are very common in high numbers. And in some towels, we even found salmonella bacteria,” said Gerba.

From cleanse to compost 🌱 6 weeks later… nothing left behind!

Because if you know, you know 😂💚

We aren’t promising a cure to sensitive skin, we’re providing a way to help it heal, protect it, and support your skin so you can stop arguing with it. For anyone with sensitive skin, it’s all about less, not more. Strip it all back and start with a Clean foundation 🫶🏼 Cleansing cloths replace rough, bacterial traps like your face washer or bath towel to prevent skin barrier damage and bacteria transfer back onto to your face. If you haven’t tried these yet and struggle with acne, rosacea, eczema, or irritation - these are for you! 🙏

Your towel might be holding your skin back 😭 She switched to drying her face bacteria-free with POLSO Cleansing Cloths + kept the rest of her routine simple… and in less than a month her skin was already looking calmer, clearer & less inflamed ✨ No harsh actives. No 12-step routine. Just reducing one of the biggest sources of bacteria transfer on your skin 👏 Your skin is most vulnerable right after cleansing, what you dry it with matters more than you think.

Met gala or meme gala 💁🏼‍♀️

The face we make when our girlies are dealing with sensitive skin and constant breakouts, but still use a face washer and bath towel on their face 🤦🏼‍♀️👠💕 #devilwearsprada #cleansingcloth #clearskin

Ever heard the saying “you can’t out train a bad diet” ? well… the same rules apply for skincare! You might be spending hours researching, spending hundreds (or thousands) on products or treatments to help your acne, rosacea or just be kinder to your sensitive skin… BUT If you’re still using a bacteria filled face washer to cleanse & remove makeup… or drying your face with a bath towel (also rife with acne causing nasties 🦠) then your skin cannot even begin to heal- it doesn’t stand a chance ! A clean foundation is the first step, and one that is often overlooked. Before you go down a rabbit hole and spend time and money on your skin, go back to basics FIRST and ensure you are giving your skin the best possible chance you can, you might be surprised how simple it can be 🥰💕 #skincarehacks #cleansingcloths #skincareaddict #acnetreatment #rosaceatreatment

What if I told you…. It’s not hormonal, and you don’t have to just “deal with it” skin issues are deeply personal and yes, there are many factors that can contribute to an array of external struggles. But all we ask, is to just TRY swapping out your towel (which is covered in bacteria) for a Cleansing cloth when you dry your face, you could save yourself years of wasted energy and money by starting with the basics. What have you got to lose ?

Favourite kind of love letters 💚

Light at the end of the tunnel after a long skin journey 🙏 and the answer was so simple #cleansingcloths