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Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:07 pm  |
I have been trying a new all natural moisturizer for about a week. It has lots of natural oils in it. In other reviews, it is not known to cause people to breakout and is pretty light feeling. My skin has been tight lately.
I have been trying it at night time. The last 2 days I notice some little whitehead pimples around my cheekbones, a tiny one on my forehead and a tiny one on my chin. If they clear up, I guess that means it is purging. How long do you think I should give it, and keep using to see if it clears up?
Also, I have been testing it at night. I have been wanting to start using a moisturizer at night. Perhaps I don't need it at night, since most of the time my skin makes a light layer of oil by morning. Maybe my natural oils and the moisturizer is too much, although the moisturizer is not heavy at all and absorbs right in. I am not oily during the day. what do you all think? thanks |
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:31 pm |
I think its highly unlikely that it is causing purging and it seems rather quick to be causing a breakout. Could just be a coincidence.
You say your skin has been feeling tight lately, have you changed something else in your skin products?
I only use as moisturizer as needed. My skin has changed to slightly oily recently and I don't use a moisturizer at all these days. |
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Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:18 pm |
| no. I have tried exfoliating more and that seems to be helping with the dryness. I thought adding a moisturizer at night might be helpful. I guess I will keep using it and see if it is just a coincidence. |
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Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:14 am |
One more thing...it could be from irritation which some times presents it self to look like a break out.
If you post the ingredients we could take a look at them and see if anything jumps out as clogging pores or causing irritation. |
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Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:38 am |
| Well sweetstart if you're oily to begin with than don't use this moisturizer. Also anytime you change your skin care, skin reacts especially if there are actives in it. Skin does not purge itself. |
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Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:54 pm |
well my skin isn't oily, more on the normal to dry side. That is why I am trying to incorporate a moisturizer and it seems like most people use a moisturizer at night, so I thought that might be a good thing to start, and maybe some of the dryness would go away.
Being that this is a natural moisturizer and contains oils, I thought that maybe those were pushing out of some of the whiteheads under the skin, that were probably going to come out sooner or later. My skin get slightly oily at night, mostly in the t-zone, so I was just wondering if maybe the little extra nighttime oilies that my skin is naturally producing, when combined with the moisturizer, which I am not used to wearing at night, could cause some purging. If those clogs are in my skin, I would rather have them come to the surface at once and get gone, rather than pop up a few at a time over several months time.
Here are the ingredients:
Aloe Juice, Glycerine (vegetable), Ginseng Extract, Glyceryl Stearate, Squalane (vegetable), Sweet Almond Oil, Jojoba Oil, Octyl Methoxycinnamate, Dimethicone, Cetearaeth-5, Canola Oil, Soya Sterol, Soya Liposomes, Tocopherol, Chamomile Oil, Geranium Oil, Sorbic Acid, Allantoin, Ascorbic Acid, Hyaluronic Acid, Xanthan Gum, Lactic Acid, Beta Carotene, Licorice Root Oil, Retinyl Palmitate, Phenoxyethanol. |
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Fri Apr 23, 2010 4:03 pm |
If your skin is on dry side, how does it feel after you cleanse? Tight/dry or normal? If it feels tight at all you need to find a gentler cleanser.
I don't think this moisturizer is causing purging. I don't see any pore cleansing ingredients in there, just possibly the lactic acid but I suspect there is not enough in here to exfoliate. I do see potential pore cloggers though.
The following jump out at me as problem ingredients for some people prone to clogs, either they list high on the comedognic scale or other people have mentioned them as hit or miss:
Glycerine ,Glyceryl Stearate, Jojoba Oil, Dimethicone, Tocopherol
I also see ingredients in there that cause allergic reactions for me. So that could be a possibility for you also. |
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