Q&A with Dr.Hauschka's head esthetician and education manager, Elaine Robinson - CLOSED

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This week we're inviting you to send in your skincare questions to Elaine Robinson, head esthetician and education manager for Dr.Hauschka Skin Care UK. With fifteen years' experience in the beauty and well-being industry as a qualified skin care and massage therapist, Elaine is responsible for all Dr.Hauschka product and esthetician training across the UK. Since 2006 she has delivered training to Dr.Hauschka's education teams around the world at the company's international headquarters in Germany.

Elaine was recently featured in You Magazine after successfully treating a reader's skin, normalising her rosacea back to a comfortable, balanced and healthy condition with Dr.Hauschka skin care products. She is able to successfully diagnose and treat any number of different skin conditions. Send in your questions to Elaine before 5pm on Friday 30th September and we'll be linking to Elaine's answers from this thread by Thursday 13th October.

Mumsnet Style and Beauty product reviews are now up and running and if you haven't already done it, send in a beauty product review before Friday 30th September and you will be entered into a draw to win one of 50 30ml tubes of Dr.Hauschka Day Rose Day Cream Light moisturisers

I'm another DrH user with rosacea, and I'd suggest trying Bare Minerals. You can get a free sample from the counter at Debenhams. It's so pure, I've been able to sleep in it (no choice - I couldn't afford DrH for a while and can't use any other cleansers)!!

I need an eye cream from DrH as I'm getting fine lines. What do I need to get?

Do you do a fake tan?

I have DrH skincare and makeup products available in my local "health food" store. They are very expensive, however I am a complete makeup and skincare junkie and will spend the money if I get the results (as will most women, I wish the scientists etc would cotton onto this instead of consistently producing such over-marketed crap). What will suit my pale, (and yellow-toned!!) sensitive, acne-prone, rosacea-prone skin (answer this question and you may just answer every other question on here! ha!)???

I am (I think) peri-menopausal. I have, luckily, always had very good skin but now it is dry, then greasy, then dry etc. I do have wrinkles but that is to be expected but I just don't know how to treat my skin at the moment. Is there anything you would recommend?

I have lichen planus, a type of eczema. What can you recommend? I've tried everything from Chinese herbs to homeopathy. I've always refused to take Cortisone.

what is the difference, in terms of their purpose and effect, between the glass ampoules of Rhythmic Night Conditioner for sensitive skin and the spray bottle Intensive Treatment No.3? i have used both in the past (the spray both morning and night, the ampoules just at night as directed) and both have worked instantly (well, within 24 hours) to reduce hormonal and seasonal outbreaks of itchiness, dry patches, red patches etc and both on separate occasions have restored balance totally to my skin over the following 28 days. Is the difference in these two products just one's preference for application method?

Using Dr H products exactly as I've been instructed to do so (! right down to the muslin cloth compress rung out with lavender oil in the basin of warm water) has given me clear, glowing, fabulous skin for the first time since I was 12. (I am now 44.) i cannot tell you what it has done for my self-esteem and my confidence levels, these days I can enjoy wearing make up too as previously I wondered if make up would contribute to all the zits, bumpiness and flaky patches that plagued me, hence I avoided it. So, thank you.

I am another late-30s one here, with both oily and dehydrated, sensitive yet spotty skin. I tend to get hormonal spots along the jawline but also around the hairline and sometimes across my cheeks. I get flaky dry patches at times.

If I use products for oily skin the flakiness gets worse. If I use products for dry skin, the oiliness and blemishes get worse. If I use products for 'normal' skin they don't fix either of the problems.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for sending in your questions which we've now sent over to Elaine. We'll be linking to her answers from this thread next week.

Thanks to all those who sent in beauty product reviews. On Monday we'll be pm-ing all those who were successful in winning a Dr H Rose Day Care Light moisturiser and we'll be linking to Elaine's answers from this thread next week.

The archive Q&A is now ready - see:

Dr Hauschka Q&A