moisturisers

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I read in "Goodhousekeeping" an article about looking fantastic at any age accompanied by pictures of gorgeous women from 20-60 and always the products cost about 40 quid. Do real people actually spend that much on their creams ? Maybe it's time to start a new heading - cosmetics and vanity or something.

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Most dermatologists would tell you that to keep looking young you need to stay out of the sun, stop smoking and use a moisturiser. Any one you like will do, but none of them can do much more than aqueous cream that sells for a few quid for a massive tub.

Oh, and pick your grandparents carefully

I've been through the whole Clinique faff but found that E45 worked much better!

I quite like the Boots No. 7 . Also tried the Clinique type stuff costing the earth but didn't find it was any different. Used to use Simple all the time and that was good too and not expensive at all.

mmm, I spend very little as I use Astral or Nivea which are very cheap. I'm in good company with the Astral as apparently Joanna Lumley uses it. I absolutely refuse to believe the claims made for most moisturisers and other beauty products, I think some people are falling for good advertising. If all the claims were true then surely they'd be classified as medicines, not cosmetics? Now, Botox OTOH, I'm prepared to believe that works.

apparently what works is facial exercise although won't do anything for sun damaged skin. My gran who never smoked and kept out of the sun has the most amazing skin (she's in her 80s). I keep hoping some of it is genetic and I might have inherited it... sigh

I just use Nivea soft and it's lovely. It gets slapped on anywhere when there's a hint of dryness. DH used it too and rather annoyingly his skin is just a good as mine, not saying it's peachy and soft but it's pretty much Okay and he's only used moisturiser since I meet him.
Jammie Sod!

I use Nivea too, does the job for me, and I have v dry skin.

oil of olay for me....protective moisturiser
SPF 15+. Mum sent it to me for Christmas - love it. It is light and I can feel my skin improving.

I like the bodyshop creams, even though it's just clever marketting, I like their ethos, I'm 45, so my skin is pretty prune-like (worse luck)and grainy (ugh) and I agree with you about advertising and of course the magazines are in the pay of the advertisers. What a con! But I still get hooked in a bit.

WWW, you are quite right, if they did anything they would be listed as medication, and would by prescription only or pharmacy products.

There is one class of preperations that are effective against sun damage, but the effective ones are by private prescription only. (so you pay the full cost, and the NHS doesn't). But the best way to avoid sun damage is to stay out of the sun. To get a good idea how much the sun ages skin check the upper surface of your arm (which 'sees'the sun) and the lower surface. These two bits of skin are the same age, but the upper surfce will look 'older' because of the damage caused by the sun.

I'm a big fan of stuff from Lush - Sympathy for the Skin is my absolute favourite, and the staff there are so helpful with lots of advice and free samples. Plus its not tested on animals either.

i love synergie products especially the ones with vitamin c for during the dat and estee lauder for a night time

Oh, and the vitamin E is put into moisturisers to stop them turning rancid! It is an anti-oxidant, but probably does more for the cream, than your skin

I use Clarins for toners, handcream etc, but my absolute fave moisturiser is Vaseline Intensive Care, it's really cheap and works

I've been though Clinique, Clarins etc over the last few yrs and due to budgeting in our house was on tesco creams for a while. Now my sis has started working on a cosmetics counter so i'm living on Sisheido samples but the moisturiser is fantastic - really soft. One of the nicest feeling creams i've ever tried. Try and get a sample and see. Think it may be pricey to buy though. Other than that I'd probably be an Oil of Olay fan.

what is the name of the clinique moisturiser - and can you buy it on line - at the moment i am using a marks and spencers one but i have heard the clinique one is good

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i use clinique dramatically different moisturiser - it's really nice but i'm not convinced it really is dramatically different. Clinique foundations however are fantastic.

I used Clinique when I had more money. Now I'm not working I use Oil of Ulay (or Olaz as I think its called now. Why?). The Clinique felt a bit more luxurious but I think the cheap stuff does just the same job TBH, and I have v dry skin.

I love the Origins products. A Perfect World - the green tee skin treatment is fab and the moisturisers are really good. They cater for all types of skin and the products always smell nice too. Try them out...quite a few dept stores stock their stuff and they also have a shop on the Kings Road

i know you can buy clinique products at debenhams but can you get them from anywhere else

The M & S face formula used to be packaged very similarly to Clarins stuff, edgarcat, but whether that was because it was made by Clarins, or because M & S were aiming it at the Clarins customer, I don't know. The package design has changed now, but it still smells like the Clarins product and is just as good, IMO.

This is so embarassing, but... what works for me is good old Vaseline. Grandmother's favourite. If I remember to apply it every night my skin really starts to bloom after a week or so. I know it's a petroleum product, but then, so is E45.

jinna, you can get clinique stuff from all the big dept.stores and boots and those specialist makeup:perfume places.