Face Cream!

GwylimT

I use decleor, I have bad psoriasis and it is the only thing that improves it, at the moment my skin looks almost normal.

katkin

Used to have a terrible Clarins habit :eek:

When I added up my spend on face products, make up and hair it was shocking...

I'm 50 in April and moved over to coconut oil about a year ago. :money:

My skin has vastly improved. I also make my own little muslin wipes that I remove make up at bedtime. These also have a little coconut and olive oil in them, tiny amount and with warm water they do a good job of exfoliating and cleansing my skin. In the morning I just use water and a tiny bit of oil to moisurise. It takes longer to sink in but its great stuff.

I'm also sitting with it in my hair - its been on all night with a homemade durag on - to do a deep moisturise / condition.


My big habit / expense now is my hair I go to my hairdresser every 2-3 months and have spent a fortune this year getting a full head of highlights (now on my 5th ) and silver toner to blend in my grey :cool: Hence I spend on specialised "silver" shampoos, conditioners etc

Reckon I'll be another year and I'll no longer need to highlight.

Feral_Moon

I swear by the Lacura Renew and Restorative range from Aldi. Cheap as chips but been proven to be just as good as top range creams with just the same ingredients. They did some testing on it a little while back and one particular cream on sale in Aldi for just £6.99 (I think it was) contained exactly the same ingredients as one sold in the high street for £200+. They were even made in the same factory!

Also, it's not just what you put ON your skin that affects but also what you put IN by what you consume. People who smoke and drink will have broken veins and wrinkles and their skin will never look good despite anything the slap on it. Drink plenty of water, set foods high in anti-oxidants and get plenty of sleep at night! That's the secret to beautiful skin

C_J

Another vote for Astral here - it's absolutely fantastic. It has the same basic ingredients as the wildly expensive Creme de la Mer apparently.

I have dry and sensitive skin, but Astral works like a charm for me. People at work have often commented that my skin is amazing (which is a lovely thing to hear!)

VfM4meplse

The best moisturiser provides a complete barrier to water loss. It is white soft paraffin - known to most of us as Vaseline.

Knowing this, why don't I use it? Because I have suffered from acne since I was a child, and its only now in my 40s that I can wake up to clear skin (even that is occasional, I had a big bump on my forehead this morning). I'd rather spend a bit of money on a good quallity mosituriser - using the Boots Time Delay atm, which I bought for £6 and lasts me for about a month. However, the brands such as Estee (which owns Clinique btw) are notorious for leveraging vanity to relieve women of their hard-earned cash, without delivering more than bog-standard results.

The best anti-aging treatment is preventative: don't smoke, and stay out of the sun. Smoking with WSP slathered all over your skin is a particulaarly bad idea unless you wish to spntaneously combust :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Rainy-Days

I bought a tub of Astral a while back when Joanna Lumley was endorsing it. I found it very thick and it was quite perfumed, but it did moisturise very well - then I got quite a number of spots so I switched it and used it for cleansing and it worked really well for getting make-up off.

I hardly drink any alcohol and we eat really pretty healthily - no ready meals at all. I have also never smoked so that has been a good thing. Biggest downfall is that I don't use an SPF (I know you are all going to blast me for that) and I am out with the dogs twice a day, every day in all weathers and then about an hour each day with the horses! So, my skin does take a bit of hammering from cold and wet to going back into the house where it is warm etc.

I also used to like the original Nivea in the dark blue pot. Have not used that in a couple of decades though.

VfM4meplse

Rainy-Days wrote: »

Biggest downfall is that I don't use an SPF (I know you are all going to blast me for that) and I am out with the dogs twice a day, every day in all weathers and then about an hour each day with the horses!

I have olive skin which can take a bit of sun, but never do I venture out w/o sunscreen even in the winter. If its not in my moisturiser, its in my facial make-up.

I remember the pots of Nivea from childhood - the smell still reminds me of my granny. That and light pink glass bottles of Oil of Ulay.

Hermia

My skin has lots of problems and I find Avene and La Roche-Posay are best for me (I guess they are mid-range). I find very cheap and very expensive brands both cause me problems. I think with skincare you do need to just try different things. I do know people who have beautiful skin with the most cheap and basic products and people whose skin has been transformed by expensive products. It is a shame samples are so hard to get. I wish companies would sell taster packs of their skincare products.

Rainy-Days

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I remember the pots of Nivea from childhood - the smell still reminds me of my granny. That and light pink glass bottles of Oil of Ulay.

Yes, I remember this well because my Mum had them on her dressing table. For the longest time I kept calling it Ulay rather than Olay when they changed the name to bring the UK into line with other countries!

I know, I know I am going to have to get this SPF thing sorted. I have some crows feet around my right eye and quite a siginificant but small furrow between my eyes! Not bad for 46 years I guess, but then I cannot sit in the sun for any long periods as I had sunstroke when I was seven! I take the point though that even on a day like today sun damage can still occur!

Out of this it will allow me to considerably pare down my own dressing table drawer to a handful of basics. I will keep using Lush Angels OBS for exfoliating, but a pot of that last me about six to eight months (used twice weekly or thereabouts not exact on it). I am now looking forward to saving quite a bit of dosh.

What a mug I have been, but you are right these companies play directly to your worry about aging - because we all do. My skin was never bad, but it just didn't have that extra zing about it despite using these expensive products.

Stuff like the hand creams that are in the drawer I will gradually get through, but have always found that the Atrixo cream at the side of the kitchen sink always deals really well especially when they are dry and chapped from sorting the horses and their stuff out. Nothing seems to beat Atrixo and that lasts an age.

Wednesday2000

I just use soap and water and then oil, sweet almond or rosehip oil.

My skin has been acting up with the heating on and I am terrible for not washing the makeup off my face at night.:o