Which facial moisturiser do you use?

Sublime_2

I have no actual favourite, although among my faves are Lush moisturisers, and Boots no 7.

beautyscientist

jenniewb wrote: »

Have been through SO MANY moisturisers and found that my skin is basicly really fickle and doesn't like certain products.

It doesn't like mineral oil, petroleum jelly, lanolin oil...and countless other man made things. I try a product for a month, if by then my skin has had enough it shows (normally begins to show after the first week, gets worse to the second week, painfully bad by then and I then see how long I can stand it! Though partly due to the fact that if I pay for something, regardless of the cost I want to get as much as I can from it!!)

I have tried Boots No.7 (a few different types incl. P&P), Vitamin E45 cream, Nivea, Olay....many others, they all gave me really painful deeply inbedded white-head spots which took weeks to go away and months to fade.
I have tried a bunch of natural products, decided I didn't like Rose Oil, made my skin sticky. Didn't like coconut oil; bought me out in spots, I did like Aveda but waaaay too expensive, loved Nuxe but again very expensive. I used to get it from Boots but they stopped selling it so not its only as a gift I can get a pot.

I am yet to find an affordable cream I like, but seem to be able to exist on samples wherever I can get them!

Dermalogica, Elemis, Kiehl's (just not the Ultra: it burns my skin!), Aveda....gifts with purchase, ebay, brand suggestions and freebies from friends/family they don't want tend to be how I get by. Gives me enough time to save for decent stuff!

I'd say visit a brand concession, explain that your looking for a new cream but are wary of paying so much for a brand and then finding your skin reacts, explain it takes a good week for your skin to react and that your not sure what your looking for. You may get fobbed off, you may get some suggestions, either way you've not got anything to lose besides a few minutes of your time. Try this when the stores are empty, mid day mid week sort of thing when the sales assistants are more then willing to give you their time. If you do decide you like a product, buy during a "bonus time" (or similar) or try to look at the ingredience and match with cheaper on the shelf brands to see if there are any similar products out there. Even googling the first 5-10 items on the ingredience list can help.

Dear me, you do have troublesome skin.

Reading through what you have already had problems with - which is nearly everything - I have a couple of suggestions. The Astral Cream mentioned by Flippin36 is one possibility. It uses lanolin, but in a pure form that might avoid problems you have had before. The other one is Neutrogena Norwegian formula. This is very rich in glycerine and may help. If they don't work best of luck in your search. You can't be faulted for persistence.