To think face creams make no difference? Or am I using the wrong ones?!

The expensive creams smell nice and leave a glow so that makeup looks good. I do t think they actually change your skin that much.

I think the most important thing is using spf all year round. Having said that, I use everything going and have many steps in my routine.

My husband and his brother I think demonstrate the benefits of looking after one’s skin. They are only 18 months apart and very alike in looks. My husband (the younger), has used moisturiser with spf since his 20s, he also uses a night cream. His brother thinks this is ridiculous. The difference between their skin is huge. The brother has really aged skin with deep lines and broken capillaries. My husband still looks very young and plump of skin at 56.

How can you tell it's not working?

The only way to be sure is to just use products on one side of your face, then you can see the difference it makes

Just wanted to add that I don’t rate a lot of face creams, and think they are snake oil as someone said down thread. However, I bought a Crème De La Mer set on offer to give it a go, and FFS it was fabulous. The eye cream is a keeper and some of it just made my skin gorgeous.

Oh gawd 🙄

I’d say genetics, stress ( environment) and a skin care routine.

I’m 55, and I lived on the equator for 17 years. I was a bit slack with SPF but didn’t really sit in the sun. I always wore sunglasses and a hat a lot of the time. Despite this, I don’t think I have a lot of wrinkles. I have 1 Marriott line I hate, but no one else can see it apparently. I don’t have any lines under my eyes. People tell me I have great skin.

I think for me a lot of it is genes. Both my parents are Irish, and whilst they have pale skin and get burnt in the sun, they look very young. My siblings look very young, and my brothers, 60+ have thick hair with only a bit of grey. I didn’t have to dye my hair until 48, and the grey is just here and there, not all over.

I think I’m lucky and so I take care of my skin religiously to try and keep it that way.

I'm 62, white and have no visible lines. People often think I'm a lot younger.
My mother and sister are the same. My son is 31 and often gets I'd.
I have never had any "interventions"

Genetics is definitely a huge part, my dad washes his face with whatever foams up and thinks carrot oil is SPF despite being a redhead
he easily looks a decade younger and didn’t have many lines at all

but I always apply my face cream with my right hand

How odd. I always use both hands when appying face cream.

Each of those ingredients treats a different type of skin issue so it depends on what you are concerned about.

Simple rule;
AM treat with Vit c and or niacinimade and or HA, then moisturise and spf

PM retinol, moisturise.

Eyes AM and PM
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Following this thread with interest.

I have some AHAs (REN Ready Steady Glow) , glycolic acid, hylaruonic acid but always forget which ones to use when and which must not be used with each other so they tend to stay at the back of my skincare drawer! Any simple advice please?

I always used to think there was no difference, but I always apply my face cream with my right hand (I don't use hand cream).

The lines on my left hand are deeper now than on my right, there are more of them, and the skin texture is different. (I'm 60)

I used Oil of Ulay from about age 14, and switched to Boots No 7 when Protect and Perfect came out - I've moved through Lift and Luminate and now Restore and Renew.

I never cleansed/moisturised at night until I was about 50!!

I do have great genetics, and I avoided the sun for much of my llife (goth) and have always used SPF. My skin is great for my age, although granted most people probably think that about their skin!

I think consistency is key. I’m 54 and I don’t have wrinkles and my skin is good. I started cleansing, moisturising and using Spf at 13, including pinching my mother’s Estée Lauder night drops. I have probably not gone to bed a single day in my life without following my routine. As I’ve got older, I’ve added better creams, more serums etc but the key has always been consistency

The conversation around skincare is like weight loss injections.

Those who either can manage their weight with ease because they aren’t constantly hungry, because they find it easy through genetics etc just think those of us on jabs are lazy or greedy or both.

Like those blessed with good skin which they can maintain with Nivea and an soap think the rest of us are talking bollocks when we describe the routines we have to use to maintain decent looking skin.

I had adult acne after teens with literally not a blemish even though I lived on booze, sugar, and routinely slept in my makeup. The acne was a shock and took real work and research to sort it out.

It's the act of applying the cream and massaging it in that makes the difference, rather than the cream itself.

That’s ageing! When people say I have no lines I wish they’d be more honest. It’s so subjective. As you say it’s not just about lines. I think I’m good on that front, not many lines when my face is not animated but there’s definitely a gradual shift south shall we say. 😂 You’re either a hollower or a sagger. I’m in the latter category.

Yes I did say non white.

It’s entirely possible to not really have lines into 60s. Genes and ethnicity play a massive role as well as how you’ve cared for your skin.

My mother’s family are of West Indian extraction (a very mixed pot of black, French, Portuguese, Indian, and Scottish)

My aunts in their 60s are routinely mistaken for my sisters, one was mistaken for my newborns mother when 52.

A decent routine and good products can transform your skin.

I have been using Estée Lauder products since I got some for Christmas. I do use good skincare as a rule but felt EL was overpriced so never tried it.

My skin has become amazing - softer, fewer soft lines abs scarring had almost disappeared.

I’m 47 and have significantly better skin now than in my 30s. I’m lucky genetically in that I don’t really have any wrinkles but still look in my 40s. It’s not able looking younger, rather ‘better’.

It's snake oil. Any moisturiser will do to hydrate and spf during the day. Night nothing : I let my skin breathe.

It's funny when you see all the botoxed/fillers ladies doing commercials for skin cream🙄

Tiny fine lines around eyes. Jowls just a tiny bit.

No laughter lines?

I am 61 with very few lines. Good genes definitely helps.

I don’t believe anyone post 60 has no lines or wrinkles unless you’ve had Botox / fillers or you’re not white. Just a lifetime of smiling creates crows feet and laughter lines. I’m 54 and don’t have wrinkled cheeks or anything but I do have lines at the side of my eyes, a few fine ones underneath and on my forehead plus 11s. Now I’m starting to notice marionette lines . I’ve never smoked, wear spf and look after my skin. It’s normal aging.

I have rosacea so cover that up with a CC cream. I'm lucky at 62 to have virtually no lines of wrinkles so just use cheap stuff.

It's ge epic as my mother and sister were/are the same