What is Micellar water?
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It is water in which tensioactive agents (basically fancier soap molecules) are inserted, causing micelles to form.
Micelles are formations where these soap molecules gather their hydrophobic parts (also called tails) inside a “bubble” (the micelle), while their hydrophilic parts (also called heads) gather on the outside, effectively generating the “bubble’s” membrane.
These micelles facilitate washing off unwanted substances (naturally-occuring sebum , dead skin cells, make-up, etc) thanks to the fact that they contain parts that both “capture” hydrophobic and hydrophilic substances. That is because hydrophobic substances tend to “attract” each other and agglomerate, while the same can be said for hydrophilic.
So the micellar water allows to wash-off a wider range of substances thanks to these micelles, as they can be dissolved more easily
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