Pavise Gentle Amino Powerwash — Mineral Sunscreen Cleanser, 148 ml

“Washing your face twice to get sunscreen and makeup off isn’t a routine. It’s a workaround.”

— Rocco C. Piazza, MD, FACS
Board-certified plastic surgeon

Two rounds of surfactant is not a ritual. It is a workaround for a formula that could not lift mineral sunscreen in one pass — and you paid for it with your barrier.

Pavise Gentle Amino Powerwash is a serum cleanser built for the two things that don’t rinse off.

The mineral sunscreen problem nobody talks about

Zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are designed to sit on the skin rather than sink into it — that is exactly why mineral SPF works, and exactly why an ordinary cleanser struggles to take it off. What is left behind at the end of the day is a film of pigment, silicone and film-formers mixed with the day’s sebum and sweat, sitting in your pores overnight. For a lot of people that residue is the real reason their skin looks congested in the places they apply the most sunscreen.

The usual fix is to wash twice. That works, but two rounds of surfactant on the same face is how a barrier gets stripped — and a stripped barrier shows up as tightness, flaking, and often more oil, not less. Gentle Amino Powerwash is built to end that trade: full removal in one pass, using amino acid cleansing agents rather than harsh detergents.

Why The Piazza Center carries it

The Piazza Center is a board-certified plastic surgery practice in Austin, Texas, led by Dr. Rocco Piazza, MD, FACS. We tell every patient that daily mineral SPF is the single highest-return thing they can do for their skin — especially after resurfacing, where sun protection protects the result. A cleanser that removes that sunscreen properly without wrecking the barrier is not a small convenience; it is what makes the sunscreen habit sustainable.

It is also gentle enough to use the morning after a treatment, which is the harder test.

What it does

• Removes mineral sunscreen and waterproof makeup in one wash, not two
• Amino acid cleansing agents instead of stripping surfactants
• Leaves niacinamide, squalane and glycolic acid behind on the skin
• Cushiony foam, mild exfoliant, non-stripping
• For all skin types — developed with dermatologists and medical oncologists

How to use

1. Warm water, not hot
2. One to two pumps, worked into a light foam
3. Massage thirty seconds — no scrubbing, no washcloth
4. Rinse, pat dry, straight into your serum

What is in the bottle

148 ml / 5.0 fl oz · Serum cleanser · Evening

Clean skin should not feel like nothing. That tight, squeaky finish is stripped lipid, not cleanliness.

Claims as supplied by Pavise. Individual results vary. This information is provided for education and is not a substitute for the guidance of your treating provider.

Step one of the Pavise routine. The Powerwash is the cleanse step. Paired with Bioadaptive Stress Repair and Dynamic Age Defense SPF 30 it becomes the Pavise 3-Step Essential Kit — the same three products, one checkout, at brand MSRP. Add Precision Eye Lift and it is the 4-Step.