What do you recommend for simple face cleaning for 14 year old with great skin....?

[loveyouradvice]

I'm feeling hopelessly ignorant... I cleansed, toned and moisturised at this age..and was spot free until my 40s!

DD has inherited my skin - lucky girl! - but I want to help her keep in great shape. She's got into a bad habit of just using Simple wipes to take off makeup, and nowt on other days....

What do your DD do? Use a cleanser (what's good?) and then just warm flannel to clean off? Or....?

Thanks!

[Oakmaiden]

Witch Hazel. That's it! I knew pressing post would bring it all back to me!

[Oakmaiden]

My Grandmama used to take me to the Boots counter and get them to make me up a bottle of Rose Water and something else for my skin... I am racking my brains trying to think what the something else was, but all I can think is it was Tea Tree.

I wonder if they still will do that?

[Underparmummy]

I remember using the body shop tea tree oil range.

I'd say simple is a good option - they do a foam wash.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

Not all beauty products are lies, but 99% of it is lies

And the other 1% is advertising

Ans that's from the biggest beauty junkie ever

[JustGettingStarted]

Cetaphil is good for little or no makeup. A wipe followed by Cetaphil if wearing makeup.

Not all beauty products are lies, but 99% of it is lies. There are some serums and things that have a modest effect on acne or dullness or whatever. But if her skin is good, they'll either do nothing or irritate.

The main thing to think about is finding a good sunscreen that doesn't have unnecessary and potentially irritating ingredients.

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Cetaphil.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

I would think camomile balm is to rich for young skin.

I've stopped using cleanser completely even though I wear make up. I wash my face thoroughly with tepid water and a clean flannel then use moisturiser- skin has never looked better. Rosacea has improved no end and dry skin seems to be a thing of the past. I'm beginning to think it's unnecessary as my skin was at its best ever in the 6 months after I had a big accident and used nothing but moisturiser as I was to poorly to do anything more .

[ElornaElephant]

Garnier Micellar water is really good, I use it as a make-up remover and a sort of toner after I cleanse too. I love the Simple foaming face wash (the other ones dry my skin out I find) and then the Simple hydrating light moisturiser. I'm not particularly old so not too long out of the teenage skin stage and I've never had much of a problem! Bit of witchazel on the occasional spot does the trick.

[specialsubject]

Apart from sunscreen as mentioned, nothing else. It is all lies - beauty products do nothing for skin.

[JustGettingStarted]

Sunscreen. That's all she needs to really worry about.

[suze28]

I second the advice about using the Body Shop camomile butter. It's lovely stuff as a first cleanse.
Our daughters are 14 and 12 and both use the Superdrug radiance hot cloth cleanser which is very similar to the Liz Earle cleanser.
Wipes really don't cleanse the skin very well.

[cashmerecardigans]

Body shop camomile cleansing butter is really lovely

[MaryMarigold]

I have pretty well behaved skin these days.

On lazy days I use the Simple wipes. The rest of the time I use Garnier Micellar water to take off my eye make up and then Cetaphil cleanser as recommended by PPs.

[loveyouradvice]

I so adore the expertise on here... thank you all for such great advice... going to investigate and take a look at these (especially since bottles that look good on a teen shelf are as important as what they're like to use!) - Fun! I'm keen she moves away from wipes as they really aren't great for everyday, more a lazy day option....

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

Best thing I ever did was so using Liz Earle, it used to be ok before they changed the formula, it's so harsh now.

[eyebrowsonfleek]

My teens use La Roche Posay cleanser. It's pricier than stuff targeted at teens but when they use it consistently, there's a big improvement.

[OpenMe]

Everyone else here seems to think Liz Earle is fantastic and I bought it for that reason. It was the worst thing I ever did to my skin. Bought me out in big painful lumps

[deltacrook]

Liz Earle.

[LippyLiz]

DD (13) uses johnsons make up removal wipes and when she's being good she uses Dermologica Age Smart face wash

[Balletgirlmum]

Dd has good skin too

She uses the superdrug hot cloth cleanser to remove make up & then a non oil based moisturiser as her skin can get a bit dry on the cheeks but a tiny bit greasy around her nose. At the moment she uses simple or Nivea moisturiser but she covets the Bobbi Brown one.
She also uses a simple face wash as she sometimes reacts to soap & it dries her skin out

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

**has

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

She had nice skin and what she uses didn't irritate- don't change a thing and continue what she's doing!

[Blueberryblueberry]

Just to add I'm in my 30s but remember messing around with loads of products in my teens and it totally made things worse. (I also need to remember my own advice when I'm reading about various products on s&b!)

[Blueberryblueberry]

Same as openme, I have fairly crap skin but the more I do to it the worse it gets. Unless she's really plastering the makeup on I'd second aqueous cream as a cleanser and face wash. This does me and I do wear make up everyday (foundation powder mascara etc)

[Flisspaps]

If she's got good skin, and she's using the wipes then why change it? It could give her a reaction or just feel like more faff than she's willing to bother with anyway.

My skin is horrendous, but there's very little ice tried that's made a difference.