Cream cleanser for dry sensitive skin

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Simple cleanser. Currently available at £2 from the discount toiletry shops - a lot more from Boots! When it gets near the bottom keep it upside down and when that stops - cut in half - you get a load more out!

cupcakelady

bedpotato wrote: »

I think you've misread that article.

The article you link to refers to using it as a moisturiser and leaving it on the skin. It was never designed for that. The OP is referring to using a cleanser (i.e. putting it on and wiping it off). Aqueous cream is great for cleansing anywhere on the body.

No, they said 'it's good for everything' (the op, not the article, that is). I wouldn't want to put something harmful on my skin then wipe it off, because it still often leaves residues.

bedpotato_2

cupcakelady wrote: »

No, they said 'it's good for everything' (the op, not the article, that is). I wouldn't want to put something harmful on my skin then wipe it off, because it still often leaves residues.

LOL it's not "harmful." Compared to the load of junk most people use every day, it's wonderfully simple. It has no perfumes or colours or parabens or anything unnecessary whatsoever. I've never found anything to rival it. The shorter the ingredient list, the better. Aqueous cream is basically just vaseline, liquid paraffin, wax, water, and a preservative. Some brands have trace amounts of SLS in order to make it foam ever so slightly and work effectively as a soap replacement. Whoever wrote the article you're worrying about is conveniently ignoring the fact that most people use shower gels and shampoos with HUGE amounts of SLS in them every single day, and the people with excema or dermatitis should be far more worried about the awful effect of those products on their skin than worrying about the tiny amounts in aqueous cream! The more it foams, the more SLS. Just watch how much your shampoo or toothpaste or shower gel are foaming compared to aqueous cream, which hardly foams at all.

Most companies pack their products full of parabens, sulphates, and unnecessary nasties. Even the brand calling itself "Simple" is not really simple at all. They have huge massive long ingredient lists for all of their products, and are just as irritating and potentially "harmful" as any other commercial product. Still, each to their own! We are all free to choose to use whatever we like.

Daisygirl

bedpotato wrote: »

LOL it's not "harmful." Compared to the load of junk most people use every day, it's wonderfully simple. It has no perfumes or colours or parabens or anything unnecessary whatsoever. I've never found anything to rival it. The shorter the ingredient list, the better. Aqueous cream is basically just vaseline, liquid paraffin, wax, water, and a preservative. Some brands have trace amounts of SLS in order to make it foam ever so slightly and work effectively as a soap replacement. Whoever wrote the article you're worrying about is conveniently ignoring the fact that most people use shower gels and shampoos with HUGE amounts of SLS in them every single day, and the people with excema or dermatitis should be far more worried about the awful effect of those products on their skin than worrying about the tiny amounts in aqueous cream! The more it foams, the more SLS. Just watch how much your shampoo or toothpaste or shower gel are foaming compared to aqueous cream, which hardly foams at all.

Most companies pack their products full of parabens, sulphates, and unnecessary nasties. Even the brand calling itself "Simple" is not really simple at all. They have huge massive long ingredient lists for all of their products, and are just as irritating and potentially "harmful" as any other commercial product. Still, each to their own! We are all free to choose to use whatever we like.

I agree with you entirely - I have to use stuff without SLS in it and so I use Epaderm ointment and Dermol shower emollient to cleanse a particular area of my body and other areas I use a natural a product as possible - Green People shower stuff as well as Liz Earle shampoo & conditioner (don't like Green people shampoo on my hair!), I've had to search so much to find a more 'natural' product without it in. Boots don't stock very much at all -I think Naked is the only range and I don't feel right even with that! The new Sanex range is very misleading - full of SLS!!! Waitrose does stock quite a few good ones Weleda and a few organic ranges. I've even reacted to Cetraben ceram - when I thought I was feeling it 'cooling' it was in fact 'burning' lol. Aqueous cream I've been prescibed to wash with also so I do use that as well, but the other ones I've found are even more moisturising.