'The Ordinary' skincare products

Maddie, I've used hot cloth cleansing for must be coming on for 20 years

I've tried so many, always gone back to Liz Earle as it has been the only one I've never reacted to

As a teen and younger woman my face was an oil slick, seriously I could produce enough oil to keep a small country heated. But back in the 70/80's skincare was so much harsher. Don't think people realised the more drying a product the more oil produced. It was using Liz Earle that made my skin so much better. Then I heard about the oil cleansing, started that and wow, my oil production really eased up

However the Seb Derm has been the bane of my life. It really got bad in my 40's. So many doctors were treating me for roseacea which wasn't helping at all. I finally got a referral to a dermatologist when one morning I woke and it looked like I had been in a fire and insisted I saw a doctor that morning so they could see it was no trivial matter

The steroid does help, but that thins the skin causing the skin to tear so I use it very sparingly. Funnily enough the thing that has improved matters the most up to this point has been no longer colouring my hair


I'm glad you liked my review. As I say I'm no expert in skin care or modern products so The Ordinary may not be that special at all compared to what else is out there, but for the price it may just be worth a try

The best bit so far is my face isn't sore getting out of the shower. Up until this week I've had to slap on the moisturiser the minute I've got out else my face would just tighten and the skin would crust across my eyebrows and chin, that's not happening

One other thing I have to mention which makes my skin go haywire, is that for the past ten years I've worked in extremes of tempetures. Until recently I was a chef and believe me, the heat in a kitchen would knock you out. Since my health has deteriorated I can no longer safely work in a kitchen so now I work in a vegetable processing plant. That's unheated ( been minus in there most of this winter) and it's a very wet atmosphere. My poor face has really taken a battering