Please help me with my skin...this weather has wrecked it!

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I've got very pale and sensitive skin....over the last week I have come out in about 10 spots all over.

I'm bloody 38! I get the odd spot around my period...but this is ridiculous.

Skin feels sore, dry and tight...so why the spots? I thought you had to have greasy skin!

Its not acne...it's litte tny ones...soreish but not big...what can I do or put on my face to protect it? Is it the cold? Or somehting else?

Please advise... I look like a teenager without the hot bod!

Hi

I just posted this to another similar thread;

Liz Earle is fab. Cleanse and polish morning and night, and if you can afford it use this uk.lizearle.com/superskin/superskin-concentrate.ht ml at bed time. Although its an oil it evens out skin. Worked with my skin. i use their moisturiser, skin tonic, and eye bright too. It's all fab stuff.

Thank you Kittycat!

I used to love Liz Earle but they changed the formula of the Cleanse & Polish (removed the almond milk) and it changed the consistency and I find you now need more to remove make-up properly.

I now use A'kin rose and geranium cleansing cream - cheaper and fab.

My skin is similar to yours and the following works for me:

Serum (using up my Prescriptives Super Line Preventor Xtreme)

Oil (Decleor Neroli face oil, tiny amount)

Gel (Decleor Prolagene Gel - amazing stuff, great for uneven skin, scarring, strect marks)

Moisturiser (Philosophy Hope in a Jar or Liz Earle's Skin Repair)

If skin is sore I use the whole job lot. If not too bad, I use serum and moisturiser

Golly mavornia...it's such a lot of stuff to put on sensitive skin....I have only been unisn E45 for ages now. Sometimes when I use "proper" stuff I get even more sore skin...is this stuff very "clean" if you know what I mean?

I like the idea of cheaper!

I know what you mean - and when I've used expensive department store brands before (Clinique, Chanel etc) they have made my skin worse too but I've never had a moment's bother with any of the above. And although it seems a lot, you are using a small amount and they are all good quality products (don't know how clean the Philosiophy moisturiser is compared tot he others but my skin loves it).

If you're worried about overloading your skin I would just try slipping a serum or oil under your moisturiser - you only use a couple of drops and it makes a big difference

The Decleor oil is great - no parabens, just essential oils. Neroli is very good for balancing spotty uneven skin. Angelique is good for sensitive skins. You could ask for a sample from any Decleor counter - a little goes a very long way. Or you could order it from QVC as they have a 30 day money back guarantee which is a safe way of trying out new make-up and cosmetics, especially more expensive ones. And if you enter the code 10XMAS at checkout you'll be able to pay in three monthly instalments instead of all at once.

Alternatively, you could buy some Vitamin E capsules from a health food store and break one open and apply to your face before bed (I find it a bit sticky to do it in the morning). I don't do it all the time but it does leave my skin softer when I do.

I don't rate E45 very highly. If you were after a cheaper moisturiser I'd go with Neutrogena. Loccitane's Ultra Comforting Cream is also very calming and good but I think it's around 20 quid.

I have sensitive skin with rosacea but still greasy, nightmare combination. However, I have just about sorted it out using Liz Earle cleanse and polish (its fab) followed by Neals Yard Remedies Frankinsence Face cream - it's not oily, just rich and calming. Works a treat. Using these two products has balanced my skin as well as calmed it - even in the very cold weather I have not had a rosacea flare up so i'd really recommend them.

I have identical skin artydeb. I use dermologica daily microfoliant every other day, and First Aid Beauty cleanser in between. Then to moisturize I use Weleda light almond day creme. Took years and hundreds of pounds to find out what worked lol.

I'm a new convert to Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream- fab for winter skin. They are good at giving samples if you ask.