Anyone else with ridiculously blockable pores? What moisturiser do you use?
The range I've used for about 15 years (Bliss, moving between a succession of products) is no longer available in the UK. I can't think how many I tried before I found their stuff worked, and I stopped having spots all the time. It was ridiculous. Basically I established over years that just about every ingredient on the old comedogenicity lists online blocked my pores badly. Natural-based products always have as a major ingredient some natural oil that I know blocks them. The only current body lotion I've found that's half way okay is Yes To Carrots and even then I can only put that on the less blockage-prone areas of skin. I look at ingredients lists of something people say is great and then there's some old foe like isopropyl myristate high up the ingredients list and so it's not for me.
I do have some Bliss moisturisers I got on ebay but I'm not confident the seller hasn't messed about with them as the texture seems a bit different. My skin is still just oily enough that in the summer I get away without using moisturiser if I use honey as a cleanser, but I need it now in autumn and winter when it gets too dehydrated and dry from heating.
By my age my mum was just using Astral and Nivea and only got nose blackheads that rarely turned into spots, but I got a double dose of the acne and oily skin genes from both parents, so that is unfortunately not an option for me.
One of my best friends who I always used to share skincare woes with when we were younger is now into some incredibly complicated Korean stuff. I stopped keeping up with beauty news once I found my holy grail products, and it's like she's on a different planet I let years ago about these things. and in any case I don't have the energy or inclination for complex multi-product routines, nor do I like the consumerism involved. I just want one thing that works reasonably well. It's fine if my skin is okay rather than amazing.