Indie Lee Cleansing Balm
by Indie Lee · skin_care
Editor's Take
Indie Lee gets the cleansing-balm brief right: Meadowfoam-rich glide, a tidy sucrose-ester rinse, and Acerola ferment make this more thoughtful than the usual oil slick.
Four-pillar formula scores
- Performance: 8.2 / 10
- Innovative Ingredients: 7.5 / 10
- Clean Standards: 10.0 / 10
- Formula Sustainability: 8.0 / 10
The Verdict
The ester-and-alkane base should dissolve makeup and sebum efficiently, while sucrose esters help it rinse without the waxy film many balms leave behind. Meadowfoam and Abyssinian oils give it stable, cushiony glide, and Acerola ferment adds a credible gentle-resurfacing edge. The fragrant essential-oil blend may bother reactive skin, and Isopropyl Palmitate can be a poor fit for some congestion-prone complexions. A polished, modern first cleanse that earns its place above basic balm formulas.
Is Indie Lee Cleansing Balm clean?
DARE scores Indie Lee Cleansing Balm by Indie Lee 10.0 / 10 on Clean Standards, the human-health pillar of the Formulation Architecture Model™. That reading comes from the published INCI list read as a system — preservative, fragrance and surfactant choices in context — not from flagging single ingredients in isolation.
What are the key ingredients in Indie Lee Cleansing Balm?
The formula leads with Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Isocetyl Stearoyl Stearate, C15-19 Alkane, Limnanthes Alba Seed Oil, Glycerin, Isopropyl Palmitate. DARE reads the full INCI list below in order, so position and pairing shape how each ingredient contributes under Performance and Innovative Ingredients.
How does DARE score Indie Lee Cleansing Balm?
Under the Formulation Architecture Model™, Indie Lee Cleansing Balm by Indie Lee scores Performance 8.2 / 10, Clean Standards 10.0 / 10, Innovative Ingredients 7.5 / 10, and Formula Sustainability 8.0 / 10. Each pillar is scored from the finished formula rather than from isolated ingredient flags.
Full INCI list
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Isocetyl Stearoyl Stearate, C15-19 Alkane, Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil, Glycerin, Isopropyl Palmitate, Water (Aqua), Crambe Abyssinica (Abyssinian) Seed Oil, Lactobacillus (Acerola Cherry) Ferment, Leuconostoc (Radish Root) Ferment Filtrate, Sucrose Stearate, Sucrose Laurate, Terminalia Ferdinandiana (Kakadu) Fruit Extract, Podocarpus Elatus (Illawarra) Fruit Extract, Pleiogynium Timoriense (Burdekin) Fruit Extract, Propanediol, Pentylene Glycol, Phenethyl Alcohol, Juniperus Virginiana (Cedar) Wood Oil, Lavandula Augustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Aniba Rosaeodora (Rosewood) Oil, Salvia Sclarea (Clary Sage) Oil, Salvia Lavendulaefolia (Sage) Oil
Last updated September 19, 2026