Do you look after your skin?

[doadeer]

Just wondering how much people do to their skin? Do you have a regular routine or just use soap? Do you consciously drink water / eat well and do you think it makes a difference?

I love face products and having facials etc but I always think about my Grandma who looks amazing and has only ever really used Astral/Nivea and simple cheap products.

Curious about everyone else

Yes, I have no other choice, I'm prone to whiteheads if I don't. So I cleanse properly, I hydrate & make sure to wear SPF everyday, and use acids

Prior to developing two autoimmune conditions my skin was pretty normal, neither oily nor dry. Since diagnosis my skin is really dry, despite both conditions being very well controlled.

I’ve started using better quality products (I read a lot of reviews). I use serums.

I’ve always drunk lots of water and warm SPF even in winter. I’ve never smoked and drink moderately.

@justilou1

I’m very jealous of your early sunblock adoption, I’m 43 this year and didn’t see sunblock advised by a derm until I was 22. The same year I saw an nhs derm who advised no sunblock if I wanted my acne to go but I ignored that advice.

I use that powder too, you can buy big size packs online designed to be added to body builders supplement routines to add to body lotion, that’s going to be my next thing.

Mature skin is classed at age 26 and over and you’ve to wear anti-aging products from then on! Seems so young.

I only use Nivea soft and some facial oil underneath it. Wash my face with just water. I don't moisturise my body really, maybe a few times a year with gifted body butters. My skin is great. I can't help but wonder why we fall for all this stuff. The odd product is bound to be beneficial but the cheapest to the most expensive still contain the same top 5 ingredients.

Drinking lots of water is key too

Ignore “mature”, “young” etc... that’s all crap. I’m menopausal and I don’t treat my ski as though it’s “mature”. Those products are too heavy and don’t suit me (and I don’t like them). I tray skin gently and don’t go to beauty counters. I trust science and go for ingredients over “companies”.

I’m just repeating what my lecturer at college told me so I don’t want to believe that it’s crap as I’m learning beauty and would like to think they know what they’re talking about @Justilou1

There is a lot of jargon out there to sell product, @Inappropriate. Some of it is backed up by science, ie sunscreen, hyaluronic acid, etc. Some products, ie, the acids are great - but when used in conjunction with the fragrances in almost all the products, are a recipe for irritation if they are in products designed to be left on the skin. A lot of products contain ingredients in amounts that are ineffective or weights that are formulated to be ineffective because it is cheaper to produce it that way. (Simple explanation from my dad the industrial chemist.) Each person’s skin is different and should be treated accordingly.

Well yes but the lecturers aren’t trying to sell products, I know what you mean though.

"fresh fruit and veg and fish etc known to be good for skin"

What evidence are you looking at that show these to be good for skin?
I don't eat fish but buckets of veg & fruit.
My skin is bad (childhood in the sun)

Yes! My mum made me start looking after my skin at about 14.
I had Eczema as a child.
I cleanse and tone at night and moisturize with Olay night cream, then Olay cream in the morning.

I'm 50 this year and don't have a wrinkle in sight.

Being male, I resisted taking care of my face for ages. I suffered from malasszia, particularly around my nasal creases and eyebrows, pimples (at nearly 60! Grr!), and generally looked like crap. DD bought me a Clarins Men shaving and facial set for Christmas, and the results are startling. No more facial dandruff, and the angry red patches have gone. The pimples increased briefly while my skin flora changed, but I now a great deal better. Can't do anything about the sagging eyebrows, or the resting bastard face.

Now look a great deal better. Grr.

Olay is full of fragrance and filler ingredients...
I don’t love eating fish at all. It’s also really expensive where I live. I take fish oil capsules. I do eat olives, seeds, nuts and avocados. (I also eat butter and cook with olive oil. I don’t use “vegetable” or canola oil. No frankenfoods for me.) I eat berries, beets and tomatoes, heaps of greens and asparagus. Eggs and various proteins and since my neurologist suggested I tried it for my migraines, I have been skipping sugar and since that worked, and had added benefits for my skin (and my arse) I have stuck to that too.

I used to have loads of facials but have given them up as I find the pampering aspect stressful and you don't get proper results.

I have profilo injections a few times a year which stimulate the body to make more collagen.
I think the best thing, which nobody ever talks about, are Eva Fraser's facial exercises, which I go through phases of doing regularly - some I do every night in the bath as the ones with gloves are so boring to do.

I do have good skin for my age (57) but of course, have no idea what I'd look like if I didn't do them. But those who do them regularly do look much younger.

I can believe skin is mature at 26, if our lifespan is only supposed to be 40 as recent research suggests then your halfway through at 20.

I do now, better quality products, sunscreen, actives like vit c and glycolic. I have a set routine am and pm and I'm religious about it.

I swear a large portion of my salary goes on skincare and makeup but as a mature woman, my skin has never looked or felt better. Ido still have lines but I'm not really bothered about looking younger, I just want to look glowy.

I just use clean and clear lotion i am early 40s

I've always used serums, moisturisers and sunblock. I also use a Clarisonic brush to exfoliate my skin once a week. But after using numerous very expensive cleansers over the years, have discovered that the best way to wash my skin is with Dove soap!

I used to have acne and antibiotics sorted that. Had a better but slightly lazy approach to skin care until I discovered Alumier MD products and now I am religious.

Used wash, toner and retinol of a night. Morning I wash, tone, active serum and moisturise. Weekly I have an enzyme mask and every couple of months a chemical peel. Definitely made the world of difference

I need to be better with eye creams too