Can someone recommend a product for me?

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My skin has gone crazy since I had a baby nine months ago.

I have always had greasy-ish skin, but I now have spots around my chin (deep under the skin, so at least that is something to be grateful for, they are not at the surface and painful acne type cysts) yet dry flaky skin over the top of that. Have also had breakouts of spots on my forehead and nose.

I am almost 37 years old , I thought I should have grown out of this. If this carries on permanently, I'm facing having spots and wrinkles at the same time.

I have tried the oil cleansing method - I thought it was working at first, but then my skin got worse than ever.

Can anyone suggest anything? A decent cleanser to leave my skin feeling soft but clean? I'm on a budget, so I'm thinking decent mid range prices, rather than £70 pots of supposedly miracle cream.

Thanks for reading.

Hi, I don't know if this would help. I have acne rosacea and find the prescribed stuff too harsh. A colleague introduced me to an over the counter cream that's strong and effective so it might be of use to you. Quinoderm. I've gone from always having a few major spots on the go to only getting one with my perdiod each month which is easly managed with this stuff. I only put it on spots or on places that feel like they're developing spots and the tube has lasted me over a year - I can't remember how much it cost but it can't have been pricey.

Ps, my colleague was also a nurse and recommended a diet for fighting candida as that can cause skin problems. I did that for a few months as well a the same time as starting using Quinoderm, then went back to my normal diet.

La Roche Posay is brilliant imo - I switched from dermalogica about 2 years ago and v impressed. I have combination skin and use this cleanser.

I would try Liz Earle Cleanse and polish, toner and moisturiser.

My skin got really bad after a couple of months of the OCM -Liz Earle is similar but results are better imo.

Dermalogica special cleansing gel, microfoliant and active moist. Really sorted out my PCOS skin.

I had similar problems. Had a free consultation at local sk:n clinic. They were excellent. Full cleansed skin and a long talk etc. not at all pushy about what I decided to buy or not. Another free consultation 3 weeks later. By which time I'd had good result. I am now still using the system 18 month later something I have never done. It is a glycloic cleanser, moisturiser and then sun screen with a spot treatment too. In 18ontha I have used several cleansers and moisturisers and two sun screens and spot treatments. So Much cheaper than all the money I've wasted on dermolgica, Clarins, Clinique etc etc.

I was like you, Spotty but dry. So anything else to help the spot made the dryness worse and vice versa. I really do recommend. Sk:n do their products in boots now so I do buy them from there as then I get points but get the moisturiser and sun screen from sk:n themselves.

Worth a free consultation if they still do them. I totally sympathise, when I went to them I was so embarrassed and it wa really effected my life and confidence. Has helped massively.

Thanks so much for the recommendations, I will investigate.

I was quite excited by a sk:n consultation, but my nearest one is in Glasgow and I'm not far from Belfast

But anything that I can get from Boots sounds quite promising.

Thanks all.

If it helps, I was using the dermalogica skin special cleansing gel before I switched to the one I linked above...

I use the no7 hot cloth cleanser, I used to use LE.

The biggest benefit I've had recently is taking kelp tablets (solgar or you end up taking 3 a day and it's pita), brewers yeast and MSM tablets. MSM makes you really spotty at first but you have to persevere.

A silk pillowcase of ebay might help too, it wont dry your skin out or absorb creams you've put on your skin. It feels really soothing on sore skin too.

I even take mine on holiday with me.