Those of you with bad skin during pregnancy

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What did you use to help? My mouth area: my chin, my lips etc have become sooo dry and no cream I can find is helping the dry skin. I've come out in hives of spots along my jaw line/chest and back. I'm 16weeks. Any tips?

Hi,

I had bad skin around the same time, but not dry, rather acne like, lots of redness. Always had pretty good skin so it was a surprise and nothing seemed to work (a beauty therapist even said there isn't much that can be done when it's caused by hormones).

Then a friend recommended ozonated olive oil which had worked for her acne during pregnancy and it cleared up my skin within 4 days. Magical stuff! It sounds (and feels) a bit weird but is a pretty well established skin product. You should be able to find it in health stores or online. I still use it when ever I get a a few pimples. Definitely worth a try! Good luck

My skins been a total mess recently, both dry and oily. So far I've found e45 works best for me. I use it all over when I get out the shower and it's really helped.

I became spottier than I was as a teenager and have been using Superdrug tea tree products, they've definitely helped. I'm hardly spotty any more and I only have one small dry patch which I can't shift.

Might not work for everyone but it's worked for me.

I've had awful skin and I've just accepted it as part of pregnancy.
I've been using a cream cleanser, pixi glow tonic to exfoliate, la Roche posay effeclar duo on my blemishes and origins charcoal mask once a week. If your skin is dry, I recommend bioderma hydra bio serum it's worked wonders for mine as my skins become incredibly sensitive and acne prone since being pregnant!

Thank you for all the recommendations, I will look into them all.

Not the same thing as you but my eczema went nuts when I was pregnant! I thought I needed to lay off the creams etc (steroid) so didn't really do anything and ended up with it getting infected and having antibiotics. Got a bit told off by the GP for letting it get that bad but I didn't think I was 'allowed' to use anything. On the up side my eczema totally cleared up while I was breastfeeding and my skin was the best it had ever been!