Help me not make another mistake. Face creme

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I have been using No7 lift and luminate day creme which I like only down point is I like the sparkly effect but it looks a bit white and patchy. I tried Neales yard Frankinsense and it irritated my skin. Just bought Niveas radiance one but I don't like the smell and it rubs my skin off in the same way that Cliniques city bock does. Not having much luck any suggestions please ?

Sounds boring, but after experimenting with a lot of irritating high-end creams I'm so happy with Eucerin. It really works. My skin looks fantastic and feels smooth and supple.

Which Eucerin products do you use DonaAna ?

Eucerin 5% urea cream as night cream. Sounds gross but it's a fab, fab product. Recommended by Ggirl on another thread here.

My skin is normal with some dry patches and some redness and irritation. Most moisturizers give me spots but it looks like Eucerin doesn't. Instead, long-lasting hydration. It cleared up my stubborn flaky dry patches in less than 24 hours. It also works as a makeup primer and has no annoying perfume. Best of all, it gives a subtle, dewy, healthy sheen - you know, the type I thought one only gets using Smashbox Illuminating serum or Revlon Skinlights highlighting cream.

Bobbi brown facebase

If you have dry and sensitive skin then Oilatum's Repair Face Cream is really good - as recommended by Pixiwoo.

Embryolisse is also lovely which you can order online from Screenface (don't be put off by the name, it has nothing to do with Embros!). This is a favorite of professional make up artists and is used at all the fashion shows where the poor models are made up and cleansed repeatedly for days on end. This brand is used because it is so gentle and soothing on the skin.

Just beware that Embryolisse and I think Oilatum although I would have to check that, do contain mineral oil so depends how you feel about that and how your skin reacts to it.

La Roche Posay (available at Boots) do really good moisturisers, favoured by a lot of dermatologists.

Thanks for all your replies I have some thinking and deciding to do.
Am seduced by anything that might make my skin dewy or sparkly so might give the Eucerin a go.

I have very dry sensitive skin and am finding E45 cream (just the normal stuff in the white pot) absolutely brilliant as a cleaner (taken off with a flannel) and moisturiser. After a week of using it my skin is baby soft and doesn't get that dry tight feeling any more.

It's even better than Cetaphil.

Ooh, yes, I love La Roche Possay too.

I have dry wrinkly sensitive skin (gorgeous with it, of course )
The only cream I've found that works and has for years is Nivea Q10. It's really silky and makes the skin dewy and plump. But it absorbs very quickly so I get through pots of the stuff, especially in winter.

I find E45 drags on the skin, smells bad and doesn't let my skin breathe - it gets greasy.

Another one I liked, super cheap is Garnier Soft with rose oil. It's very light though - good for summer use but not creamy enough for winter radiators.

Astral.

Have you tried any of Liz Earles products? They are absolutely fab!! Plant based lotions and potions are so gentle you can use them on kids. No harsh additives like sodium laurel sulfate or soaps. I have been using them for about 10 yrs, and my skin is great. Liz Earle herself had problem skin and developed her products with the in mind. My whole family now uses her stuff..from my brothers, daughter, mum, nieces, nephew etc.... Have a look at her website..

"Eucerin 5% urea cream as night cream. Sounds gross but it's a fab, fab product@

Oh, that cream is fantastic. Wonderful. And the 10 pct urea body cream is also wonderful. It works on drier skins, rather than appearing to plump up dry skin with soluble water whipped up in it but then dry out over 2-3 hours.

Basically (I'm repeating myself from another thread) most face creams' claims are bollocks. Total bollocks. They do not have the concentrations of active ingredients to make any significant difference to the skin, but they will vary in how they feel (expensive creams have more 'slip' and feel richer) on the skin, appear to plump it up temporarily, or how rigorous you are in applying simply because you've spent $$$. There are some exceptions (Prevage for instance in MD formulation, but not everyone gets on with it) but by and large save your money.

You can certainly buy treatments with glycolic acid or AHAs, hyaluronic acid (Paula's Choice or Bravura London aren't expensive and in high concentration) to refine the texture of the skin, then use normal

I rotate Paula's Choice Resist resurfacer with boggo E45 cream, Embryolisse if wearing foundation, Eucerin, any nut oil that comes to hand, oh and Oilatum cream.

This is from a Harley St derm (a friend of mine's father). In the main, the only things that work are peels, retin A, sunscreen all the time, no smoking and luck with genes. And fillers (say no!) botox (can work wonders if done with light hand) and surgery (erm, generally doesn't have great results)

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the great recap Otch. I totally agree - I've been trained as a scientist and the amount of pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo on cosmetic packaging is mind-boggling. No way can all those claims be true - many of the touted mechanisms of action simply defy laws of nature.

Retinoids irritate my skin so much that I almost bleed and natural oils cause very difficult-to-treat spots, although both products are lovely on many of my friends. My options are thus more limited and I've been looking for a long time for good non-comedogenic moisturizers.

Finally (my insider sources from dermatology say), skin generally gets tired of just one cream and stops absorbing it. That's why it's great to have two well-performing creams and use them in tandem (switch back and forth every few months or so). Good to know that there are some good and simple alternatives...

Still loving Eucerin! I've had 4.5 hours of sleep last night and a 10-hour work day, but my skin looks healthy and fresh. I'm using tiny dabs of foundation to even off my skin tone and some weather-induced redness, but if my skin keeps healing like this I can probably eBay the dregs of my Diorskin Forever

Well I went for the Eucerin so I will let you know how i get on with it. I ended up spending about £37 (more than i intended to as there was a 3 for 2 offer at boots so got the day,night 5% urea and the hyaludron one.
Agree with comments that most creams don't do much but I have to admit to liking the visible radiance and sparkle that you really can see with some like the No 7 Lift and luminate.
Thanks again for all your comments.