Olive Young Awards 2025 Cleansing Category: Manyo Leads

Ma:nyo Pure Cleansing Oil is the sole named winner of the Cleansing category at the 2025 Olive Young Awards, marking its fifth consecutive year at rank one since 2021 and its seventh consecutive year of recognition in the category since a 2019 MD's Pick selection. The award covers 40 categories and 166 products, chosen from roughly 180 million purchase records logged between July 2024 and June 2025 on Olive Young's own platform. Beplain's Mung Bean pH-Balanced Cleansing Foam and Bioderma's Sensibio H2O Micellar Water also appear on Olive Young's own Cleansing-category awards page as repeat, multi-year recipients alongside Ma:nyo, though neither took the top spot this year.

Format is the deciding axis a reader should settle first: an oil cleanser suits heavy makeup removal, a milk-to-foam or cream cleanser suits a lighter daily routine, and a scalp scaling shampoo sits outside facial cleansing altogether. The five products below, Ma:nyo Pure Cleansing Oil, bttr's [수분잠금] 하이드라 베리어 클렌징 336 밀크 투 폼 150g, Aromatica Reviving Rose Infusion Cleansing Oil, ILLIYOON Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cleansing Foam and LABO-H Fine & Dead Skin Scalp Scaling Shampoo, are read against that axis.

Ma:nyo Pure Cleansing Oil

Ma:nyo Pure Cleansing Oil, 200ml, lists for 19,900 won on Olive Young Korea and has been sold at a sale price of 15,500 won (checked 2026-09-20). The formula is described by the brand as 87% natural oils, of which 64% is wild soybean (dolkong) oil, positioned for blackhead removal. It won first place in the Cleansing category at the 2025 Olive Young Awards, its fifth consecutive year at rank one since 2021 and seventh consecutive year of recognition since its 2019 MD's Pick selection, a run that Olive Young's own brand-store page badges as "2021 to 2025, five years running, No.1." The same product also ranked first in Kantar Korea's Q2 2025 domestic cleansing-oil purchase-share survey and was named the top oil cleanser in Allure's US Best of Beauty Awards 2025.

• Won the Cleansing category at the 2025 Olive Young Awards for a fifth consecutive year and topped Kantar Korea's Q2 2025 cleansing-oil purchase-share ranking.
• The oil format typically calls for a follow-up foam or milk cleanser in a double-cleanse routine, unlike a one-step milk-to-foam or foam product.

Heavy or waterproof makeup removal is the condition an oil cleanser answers best.

bttr [수분잠금] 하이드라 베리어 클렌징 336 밀크 투 폼 150g

bttr's [수분잠금] 하이드라 베리어 클렌징 336 밀크 투 폼 150g, 150g, is listed on the brand's store at 28,100 won (checked 2026-09-20). The product opens as a milk and turns to foam on contact with water, a texture the brand describes as a mildly acidic, low-irritation foam cleanser. Its stated composition includes three hyaluronic acid types, six ceramide types and a blend the brand calls "336," across 44 total listed ingredients, and it contains fragrance among those ingredients. The product is positioned as a one-step cleanser that removes sunscreen and makeup together without a separate double-cleanse step.

Skipping a second cleanser matters for anyone who applies sunscreen daily, since the one-step design removes both sunscreen and makeup residue in a single milk-to-foam wash. The ceramide and hyaluronic acid content is aimed at leaving a barrier-support layer instead of a stripped, tight feeling after rinsing, and the soft milk-to-foam texture suits skin that reacts to stronger foaming cleansers. A single Glowpick review for the product shows a 4.5 rating, a figure too small to draw a conclusion from on its own.

For a routine focused on avoiding a second sunscreen-removal step, bttr's Milk to Foam suits one-step cleansing, while an oil or a rose-based cream cleanser suits heavier or fragrance-focused removal instead.

Aromatica Reviving Rose Infusion Cleansing Oil

Aromatica's Reviving Rose Infusion Cleansing Oil sits within the brand's Reviving Rose Infusion line, whose cleansing step is formulated as a rose-foam cream cleanser at 145ml, using damask rose flower extract at 20% concentration. The listed ingredients open with glycerin, damask rose extract, myristic acid, palmitic acid, purified water, stearic acid and potassium hydroxide. Aromatica states brand-wide that it received Ecocert natural and organic finished-product certification in 2011 and COSMOS certification in 2019 for products meeting a 95%-natural and 20%-organic ingredient threshold, a brand-level standard rather than a claim tied to this specific line.

• Formulated with a 20% damask rose extract concentration in a dense, cream-foam texture.
• The line's cleansing step is a cream-foam formula, a different texture from an oil cleanser aimed at heavy makeup removal.

Rose-scented, dense foam over a lighter, fragrance-forward daily wash is the trade this line makes.

ILLIYOON Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cleansing Foam

ILLIYOON's Ceramide Ato Concentrate Cleansing Foam sits inside the brand's Ceramide Ato range, the same ceramide-based line that ILLIYOON also sells as a body and face cleansing foam through Olive Young's storefront. ILLIYOON's ceramide formulas across the range are formulated for barrier-support cleansing, and a separate ILLIYOON product, the Top to Toe Wash, won the Body Cleansing category at the 2025 Olive Young Awards, a category distinct from facial Cleansing.

• Shares its ceramide-based ATO formulation with ILLIYOON's other face and body cleansing foams.
• ILLIYOON's 2025 Olive Young Awards recognition landed in the Body Cleansing category, not the facial Cleansing category this article covers.

A ceramide-forward foam suits skin that reacts to sulfate-heavy foaming cleansers.

LABO-H Fine & Dead Skin Scalp Scaling Shampoo

LABO-H's Fine & Dead Skin Scalp Scaling Shampoo sits within the brand's scalp-care line, which uses scaling ingredients to lift dead skin and residue from the scalp ahead of or during a wash. LABO-H's broader shampoo line has been named No.1 in Olive Young's Shampoo category for four consecutive years, 2022 through 2025, a separate award track from the facial Cleansing category this article covers.

• Positioned for scalp exfoliation, not facial cleansing, distinct in purpose from an oil, milk-to-foam or cream facial cleanser.
• LABO-H's Shampoo-category recognition at the Olive Young Awards sits under hair and scalp care, not Cleansing.

Scalp buildup and flaking, not facial makeup or sunscreen, is the condition this product answers.