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Thu Jan 02, 2014 2:47 pm  |
I would love to estabish a skincare routine that just works that I can use day in day out to get good results but it just seems so elusive and my skin so changeable in how it responds to products and treatments and it has always been this way as far as I can recall. I can feel like I have found something that really works but days or weeks later it just stops working.
Last year around this time I was using a skincare routine based around the OCM, Retin A Gel and Rosehip Seed Oil, and a Natural Rose Serum & Moisturieer from Neals Yard (UK Brand). I was constantly fighting oily bumps and clogs using much harsher salycilic based pads a few times a week to treat these and as a result mu skin was both bumpy and also the top most layer, the stratum corneum was paper thin, leaving my skin looking waxy, sallow and crepey. Following advice from this forum I switched to cetaphil, and face creams rich is uera, lactic acid, lanolin by companies such as cerave and my skin got a whole lot better in just a few days, healing the damaged outer layer of my skin and getting rid of bumps and many of the dehydration lines I had developed.
I stuck to this regime (adding in serums bt olay and vichy) for most of last year feeling it must still be doing me good but over time and most noticeably in the past few months my skin again became much worse, especially my under eye area. I began applying more cerave or eucerin type creams, hydrating serums, hyaluronic acid but apart from a shot lived improvment things still looked bad, I really felt that it was dehydration but non of my creams were working rather they just sat on the surface and didn't sink in.
Then in frustration the other day I simply cleansed with Liz Earle cleaser at night and applied no night cream or retin a and went to bed, the next morning I just spritzed my face with thermal water and applied some rosehip seed oil and that was it. Later that day I noticed my skin looked so much better like it had regrown a new layer it looked soft and matte, the lines round my eyes were so much softer and the large pores and dryness lines were much diminished, the redness round my nose was gone and so on. I've been doing the same thing for a few days now and it is still really helping my skin but I cannot help but feel that it cannot last as this is not so different from the regime that left me with awful skin last year.
So how can I get it right? I know that is basically an impossible question because everyone's skin is different and skin is a living thing which changing needs but how do I know what to use and when?
My theory is that while the cerave and eucerin products helped my skin recover from over drying skincare that perhaps the pertrolum derived ingredients were somehow causing problems for my skin, also that something in the rosehip seed oil was missing from my regime but I can't say what.
I am happy to stick to the liz earle (cleansing once a day only) and the rosehip seed oil but I also want to keep using retin a, and also use my tria laser (to improve my skin texture further), I was thinking I should use a vitamin c serum and I was also thinking of another under eye TCA peel to help with some fine lines there. Obviously not all at once!
Perhaps less is more? I just feel like there ought to be some logic to getting it right instead of feeling like I'm stabbing at it in the dark.
Is there a way to get it right most of the time? |
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