This balm melts makeup and sunscreen cleanly with minimal effort, earning consistent praise for its lightweight texture and exceptional value. Gurus highlight its runnier consistency compared to traditional waxy balms (meaning it feels less heavy in humid weather) and its ability to remove even waterproof mascara and resistant sunscreens without tugging or stripping skin. One minor note: while most find it rinses completely clean on its own, a couple of reviewers prefer pairing it with a cloth or a second cleanse to feel certain all residue is gone, though they still rate it highly for the job it does.
Synthesized from 10 expert reviews · most recent take July 2026
"I still use a balm cleanser, the Geek and Gorgeous Mighty Melt, to take off my makeup, because I feel these do it the best."
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"It is one of those products that feels much more luxurious than the price point would make you expect. It has a great texture. It melts away all my makeup. It sometimes struggles a little with waterproof mascara, but I forgive that because it rinses perfectly clean. You really don't need a washcloth. So for me in the past it has doubled up as morning cleanse as well if I was really packing very minimal."
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"I use the Geek & Gorgeous 101 Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm to take off my makeup. I really enjoy it for that. It's very affordable but feels much more luxurious and gets rid of most of my makeup without any effort. So, highly recommend. I have it purchased numerous times."
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"The first one being the Geek & Gorgeous Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm. This is beautiful. It has the texture of a balm that is much more expensive, but is very affordable. Takes off my makeup, rinses clean even without a cloth, and I love to bring it with me when I'm traveling because I can use it in the morning, I can use it at night. No matter when, and as you can see, I have made good use of it for the last few months, so I'm already on the brink of repurchasing again. Very, very good one."
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"The Geek & Gorgeous Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm is a great cleansing balm. Nothing fancy, no extra scent, but I love the texture. It feels much more luxurious than the price tag would lead you to expect. It takes off all my makeup and gets me perfectly clean even if you don't have a washcloth at hand, so I like to take it traveling because it can also double up as a morning cleanse."
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"I got another tub of the Geek and Gorgeous Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm. [...] Really enjoy it. Seems to show up in every new in quarterly update."
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"For makeup removal I switch between balms in winter and oils in summer, and my picks here are old favorites: the Geek and Gorgeous Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm gets rid of everything on my face and rinses clean, which makes it great for traveling."
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"I brought the Geek and Gorgeous Mighty Melt Cleanser, which is great at dissolving everything like makeup if I wore any and most importantly water resistant sunscreen. It rinses clean, and I still bring a flannel if I want to use one."
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"It is one of the few cleansing balms that rinses absolutely clean without the need for a wash cloth, but at the same time breaks down my makeup with ease. I have taken it with me on several weekend trips this year as it can be used both morning and night."
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"I still use a balm cleanser, the Geek and Gorgeous Mighty Melt, to take off my makeup, because I feel these do it the best."
"The most cost effective of the balm cleansers that I like is going to be the Geek and Gorgeous Mighty Melt. It's very effective at breaking up like waterproof mascara, waterproof eyeliner, sunscreen that just won't budge. Give this a try. It will take it all off."
"I love the Geek & Gorgeous Mighty Melt. I just take a scoop of it and rub it into my dry face, then I give that a splash with water, then I rub my Wonder cloth around my face. That removes more of the makeup and more of the dirt and more of the sunscreen. Then I rinse this and everything rinses right off the Wonder cloth."
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"This is one of my favorite products: their Mighty Melt cleansing balm. This definitely gives my Clinique Take The Day Off cleansing balm a run for its money. I'm using both."
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"This one is really, really good as well. Between these two, I think they're very, very similar. And for me, they both work equally as well. When I'm washing my face, I don't like a lot of tugging and pulling to get like my waterproof eye makeup, mascara, and eyeliner off. And with an oil-based balm, you can rub it in and it has so much slip to it that it doesn't yank your skin around. You do have to do a double cleanse with it because then you need to wash the oil off."
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"This is the Geek & Gorgeous 101 Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm. This is another fantastic balm, works just as good as the Clinique, the price point is much much lower. I've been getting so many comments from viewers saying that they can't get certain products over in Europe, and I always tell them to get the Geek & Gorgeous because it's really good. The brand started over in the UK and they make fantastic skincare. All their formulations are very similar to formulations of products that I get here."
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"I do a double cleanse and the first step in my double cleanse is always the oil-based cleanser. [...] If you're looking for something that's less expensive than the Clinique but works just as well, I would say to go for the Geek & Gorgeous 101 Mighty Melt Cleanser. This is awesome. I absolutely love it. This container is almost the same size as the big Whopper container of the Clinique but it costs about half the price, so this is a really good bargain for this and it works just as well."
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"The most cost effective of the balm cleansers that I like is going to be the Geek and Gorgeous Mighty Melt. It's very effective at breaking up like waterproof mascara, waterproof eyeliner, sunscreen that just won't budge. Give this a try. It will take it all off."
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"It is their Mighty Melt cleansing balm and this stuff is awesome. It works just as well as my Clinique cleansing balm. It's fragrance free. It's a really nice oil balm for doing like your first step of your double cleanse. For those of you in Europe, really good product, really enjoying this."
"I bought Geek and Gorgeous's cleansing balm when I was in Germany, [...] it was really affordable, [...] close to maybe ten or under fifteen dollars. It's a really nice cleansing balm, a bit on the softer side, but incredible at removing things without stripping the skin. It's one of my favorite cleansing balms I've ever tried."
"This is the best cleansing balm you will ever, ever use. Just take it from me. It costs, it's under $20. I think it's somewhere in the region of about $12 and [...] you get a lot of product. Like this is the latest one that I bought and you can see how much you're getting in there. It's like a full pan of cleansing balm and you only need a little. [...] So good for summer because we wear multiple layers of SPF. Often we'll have gone for a water resistant SPF, really difficult to shift."
"This is the best cleansing balm you will ever, ever use. Just take it from me. It costs, it's under $20. I think it's somewhere in the region of about $12 and [...] you get a lot of product. Like this is the latest one that I bought and you can see how much you're getting in there. It's like a full pan of cleansing balm and you only need a little. [...] So good for summer because we wear multiple layers of SPF. Often we'll have gone for a water resistant SPF, really difficult to shift."
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"We don't have time for that. One product does it all. I absolutely love this. I've been using it probably for the past three years since it launched and I cannot recommend it enough. If you're in the market for a super affordable cleansing balm, I don't think you can go wrong with this. And look how much product you get. [...] You get a lot of product. One lasts forever."
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"So to find a drugstore cleansing balm that actually works was the first reason I wanted to mention this. But beyond that it's just really simplistic in its formulation, so it's one of those products that is just going to work for almost everyone, get the job done, not overload the skin with a load of different ingredients, and leave your skin feeling beautifully hydrated, smoothed but perfectly clean ready for the rest of your skincare."
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"You get an absolute vat of product, 100 ml of cleansing balm, that's quite a lot, probably one of the largest sizes I've seen. It's drugstore affordable, cruelty free, and it's just an absolutely phenomenal product from a brand that is going to get quite a lot of mentions today because I am like the ultimate fan girl for Geek and Gorgeous, their products just deliver for me."
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"I love this because it's super inexpensive. This is actually a new tub that I've got ready for when my other one ends. And look at this. It's been in the ridiculous heatwave temperatures of the UK and it's still a balm. It's solid and that's what you should be expecting. This doesn't have many ingredients in. So, it's great if you have very sensitive skin because there's less in here to irritate you and it will get everything off like that."
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"My skin just feels perfectly prepped ready for the next steps. I use [...] the Geek & Gorgeous Mighty Melt cleanser. I love this cleansing balm, great for a facial massage, and look how much product you get. I think I paid 14 pounds for this, super affordable by cleansing balm standards, and you get so much product because a little will go a long way. I work this into the skin for like three minutes doing my facial massage routine."
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"My favorite of the two would be the Mighty Melt, which is the best cleansing balm I have ever used, bar none. When it comes to this Mighty Melt one, no matter what your skin type is, no matter how much makeup, SPF, or other things you're wearing on the skin, this will tackle it all. So much product for the price point. You just can't beat it."
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"If you want a double cleanse, the Mighty Melt balm works as a duo"
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"This one by Geek and Gorgeous washes off without a trace. There's no film. You don't need to have a gel cleanser after it. [...] And this one is great. Obviously, you're going to want to go in with one that doesn't leave a film that you feel like you have to wash off with another cleanse. So, play this one a little cautiously. But this one by Geek and Gorgeous is great. And look, you get a vat of product. I think I'm nearly out of this one, but you get so so much product."
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"I love this because it's so budget friendly, I think I paid 13 pounds per right here. [...] A little goes a long way and why I love it is look at the amount of product you get, it's like a vat of product in here, which is great because often cleansing balms they're bougie, they're expensive, you don't get a lot of product and this you don't need a lot to get the job done and it's so budget friendly."
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"One of these will last me three months, maybe even a little longer. So cheap, such a good formulation. If you're using a bougie expensive one, unless you really enjoy it, I just think it's better. And the best thing is it is so warm here in the UK, hottest day of the year so far, look at that, it's not melted, it's not turned into a goo, it holds its form, which honestly is quite rare in cleansing balms and something I really appreciate."
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"This is also great if you've got sebaceous filaments, those little dots on the nose. You want to use an oil cleanser to really shift them, and this is probably one of the most effective I've ever used. Work this into the nose for like 5 to 10 minutes and you'll see those sebaceous filaments actually come out on the hand. It's so satisfying. I'd say this is the best cleansing balm I've ever used for what is termed oil pulling."
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"This is phenomenal because [...] you get a lot of product. It's a really simple formula. There aren't a lot of ingredients in it. And yet it works better than any cleansing balm I've ever used. And I think that's magical because if you've got sensitive or reactive skin, you want to reduce the number of ingredients you're using without compromising on the results. And this just makes it super easy to do that. You can do a facial massage with it. It doesn't break the bank. It's phenomenal."
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"I absolutely adore this because it's one of the cheapest cleansing balms you'll ever find and you get a huge amount of product and it's really inexpensive. I love this because if you rinse it off with lukewarm water it disappears like that, none of that slightly greasy film that some cleansing balms can leave behind, which is why I absolutely love this. It's kind of like a one and done."
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"I absolutely love this and I am fairly lavish with it because I like to massage it all in. You could probably get away with just using one tub every two months, but I use one a month because I'm very lavish. I use it on my arms, I use it for facial massage every day. It's just a total winner of a product that I can't get enough of, especially because that price is divine."
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"I love this. This lasts for an eternity. Like you get a vat of product here and it's super inexpensive. I just bought another one to replace this one which is half done and I think I paid about £14 for it. Inexpensive, high quality, beautifully rich cleansing balm. This will melt away all the makeup, SPF, dirt, debris, gone in one. And you don't need to break the bank. I see people using these really bougie cleansing balms that cost like $100. You don't need to."
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"You get an absolute vat of product in here. I mean look at that, you get so much product. It costs £15. One of these will quite literally last me 6 months plus. And it's a little hero, it's the only cleansing balm I actually use. It's just so good. [...] I massage it into the nose for like 5 minutes, 3 times a week to lift those blackheads and pores. Put a thicker layer on, leave it on for like 15, 20 minutes to get that extra nourishment as a mask, or just use it as a cleansing balm."
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"Love this because look how much product you get, it's one of the cheapest on the market and you get a huge load of product that probably lasts me like three months. So this is great on a budget, absolutely love it. Just massage the balm into the skin for two or three minutes, let it work its magic, rinse off with a gel cleanser, and this can be one of the most effective ways of over time minimizing congestion and blackheads."
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"I absolutely adore the Geek and Gorgeous Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm. That's a balm not an oil but it's so so good."
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"If you want a good cleansing balm that's half the price of this one, works even better and doesn't have some overengineered packaging, this is the Geek & Gorgeous Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm. I've just bought a new one of this because it's so good. You get so much product here. You know how much you've got left because you can actually see it. It works better than the other ones I've tried and it has less packaging. This is a win."
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"I don't think there are any better cleansing balms on the market than this one. It doesn't matter how expensive they are, I don't think they can compete. Very few ingredients, so if you've got sensitive skin, this will be a great option for you. But it just works. It's like magic. I don't know how they manage with so few ingredients to be able to take off water-resistant SPF, waterproof makeup, gone, an absolute treat for the skin. Geek and Gorgeous are just one of my favorite affordable brands."
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"It's just a really great balm. The best thing about it is if you emulsify with some lukewarm water, work it in for another 30 seconds, it disappears like that. It's not one of those balms that leaves a film on the skin, which I hate because I always think the rest of your skincare has to fight through that film to be effective. So you're just not gonna get the results that you want. Not an issue with this. It's an absolute Holy Grail."
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"Their balm cleanser is phenomenal. You get a vat of product, so much cleansing balm for your money, and this is great to see because a lot of cleansing balms come with a sky-high price point and a tiny amount of product. This is hands down one of the most effective cleansing balms I've ever used and it's got minimal ingredients, which is a good thing. Minimal risk of sensitivity, irritation, or reaction to it. Great for the sensitive skin amongst us and just an all-round Holy Grail."
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"This is the Mighty Melt cleanser. Look how much product you get. [...] It's a cleansing balm and I love that because a little goes a long way and it lasts forever. So I'll be buying a couple of these during the sale period and it'll probably last me 6 months if I buy two. The best cleansing balm I think I found. It melts into the skin, feels beautiful. Minimum ingredients, so great if you've got very sensitive skin type. Vegan, cruelty-free."
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"I use the Geek & Gorgeous Mighty Melt cleanser and love it, for when I want a little extra than my own foaming cleanser."
"Their Mighty Melt Cleanser is just so easy. It makes it so easy to remove and it's a pretty big tube, too. It's taking me a while to get through, but a little bit does a great job removing eye makeup, sunscreen, all that stuff."
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"It's a really nice fragrance-free cleanser [...] and I really like this brand"
"The Geek and Gorgeous cleanser is really nice. It's no fragrance in it. A little bit of it goes a long way. [...] It's a really nice cleanser. Just takes a minute to smooth it over everything and allow it to break down the oils on your skin."
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"They mentioned the low pH gentle cleanser, so that one's from Geek and Gorgeous. It did a good job with that. I think it looks like it's right between five and six, I would say 5.5, which is where we would want to see it."
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"The Geek & Gorgeous Mighty Melt Cleanser, [...] just a little tiny amount of this, maybe like a teaspoon is enough to remove all of my sunscreen and makeup. This one's priced right and it will last a very, very long time for me."
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"The Geek and Gorgeous cleansing balm is 13 bucks and it's also really nice and sensitive. It only has seven different ingredients and comes in a little purple jar."
"This is their Mighty Melt cleanser. You can use it to remove makeup and sunscreen at the end of the day. It's really nice."
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"The Geek & Gorgeous Mighty Melt [...] is a very nice product. It's got a minimal ingredient list so it's friendly for most skin types. Right now I'm wearing sunscreen, foundation, powder, blush, mascara, and it will do a pretty good job removing all of those."
"I just got in the mail last week the Geek & Gorgeous 101 Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm which I tested a couple times it's been really lovely. This is really nice, it's super affordable and it's gigantic so you get a ton. It's a 100 milliliters, 3.38 ounces. I think this is a very short ingredient list for a product, I think it's got like eight different ingredients and they all seem to do a good job."
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"Their Mighty Melt Cleanser is just so easy. It makes it so easy to remove and it's a pretty big tube, too. It's taking me a while to get through, but a little bit does a great job removing eye makeup, sunscreen, all that stuff."
"If you are wearing makeup, I recommend a double cleanse where you are first starting with a cleansing balm like this one. This is by Geek and Gorgeous. This really helps loosen up makeup, even waterproof mascara, waterproof sunscreen. Remove it from your skin."
"My budget recommendation for a balm cleanser that's easy to get your hands on and pretty inexpensive is the Geek & Gorgeous 101 Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm. It gets the job done and rinses really nice and cleanly. It breaks up all the makeup and the sunscreen. It works perfectly."
"This is a cleansing balm and I'm gonna give this The Smiling Emoji because I did enjoy this. I don't know that I'm in love with it or like wildly impressed with it but this is a very good product. I can't fault it too much. This is also a fragrance free cleansing balm which I find very hard to find. [...] I don't have really anything to fault the product with."
"It's pretty much the texture that does it for me and of course the overall user experience. This has that textural refinement that in my experience is usually reserved for the very high-end Japanese cleansing balms, and of course this does have Japanese technology in it. It does not sting the eyes and rinses off completely without residue. This will remove it all, from the very resistant sunscreens to waterresistant, stubborn eye makeup. It's one and done."
"I've fallen in love with a lot of balm cleansers, and this is the Geek & [...] Gorgeous Mighty Melt. I love this for summer [...] because it's runnier than traditional waxy balm cleansers, which means it's lighter weight, which means it's much nicer when it's humid. Even though it's been raining in the UK, it's been really hot and humid, and it gets rid of every scrap of makeup. [...] I have to say, Geek & Gorgeous, I've not put a foot wrong. I really love that product."
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What is Geek & Gorgeous 101 Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm?
An oil-based cleansing balm that melts away makeup and sunscreen, formulated to rinse clean without residue.
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Geek & Gorgeous 101 Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm holds a Guru Score of 94%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 10 expert reviewers we have collected. It is also Guru Certified, our mark for products that hold broad approval across many expert reviewers.
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