Dry skin - moisturisers and foundation

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I have dry skin, especially flaky round my mouth area, to add to this delightful problem I have very sensitive spot prone skin (thanks PCOS). I've been using Aveeno for years as a moisturiser and I use a Rimmel foundation but by mid-afternoon my skin has dried out and the foundation is clogged in patches which look like dirty marks! Not nice.

So, can anyone recommend a good moisturiser that won't upset my sensitive spotty skin and a foundation that won't clag up by 2pm?

Oh and not too expensive

Thanks!

Oh and I need a good coverage as my skin tone isn't great

I have combination skin prone to dry spots (eczema) and spots. I now use vitamin E oil at night and Clinique dramatically different moisturiser in the morning. I got the contaminated E oil off amazon and decanted it into a little roller bottle, also off amazon. Foundation - Clinique even better. Good coverage but not cakey.

*vitamin E oil. Nothing is contaminated 😳

Do you exfoliate?? Sounds like you need to. I am naturally extremely dry but use oil cleanser, serum, moisturiser and facial oil (plus SPF as v sensitive/reactive) so before you change you prob need to exfoliate and up the treatment a bit.

I have sensitive very dry skin and find Nivea Q10 is really good and lasts all day.
Can't help with foundation though. I've never found one I like. It's the only bit of make up I can never get right.

I use simply argan's turn back time argan oil and night time oil. Years of dry flaky skin using moisturisers and turns out oil was the answer. I always thought it would be greasy but it's not at all.

My skin started to go badly dry so I started using lush exfoliation cream. A lush cleanser then a rose hip oil or vitamin e oil. Then I use a This works cream. I really rate This works.
You need a dewy foundation, I use nars sheer glow but it's not the cheapest. A good alternative is Bourjois healthy mix serum foundation, or the ordinary serum foundation.

I have pcos too and greasy skin with dry patches in the winter. What I find helps is a cleansing routine that include’s coconut oil. I basically slather it on on the dry patches, use my usual cleanser twice, and then follow it up with Olay’s day fluid or SPF.

I'm planning Bobby brown intense serum foundation for my next buy! But if I can I find skin much less dry, if not as presentable, with no foundation as it's drying. Perhaps Bare Minerals might suit?

No7 youthful facial oil has changed my skin so much, it's amazing.
Combination of dry/oily in different places so seemed counter productive to put more oil on it but it is so light it makes my skin feel amazing. All hypoallergenic, no reactions with my sensitive skin. I even put it on under foundation as primers were quite drying.

Thanks so much everyone lots of options here for me to try. I think I need to exfoliate, I've never thought to do that before. What's best used for that?

Not microbeads! My skin is v sensitive so I use a chemical rather than physical exfoliator. The ordinary have some v cheap and decent ones. I use Image enzyme mask.

I've been using a salt scrub from lush. It's been amazing for my skin.

I agree with the suggestions to tackle your dry skin, as it will be impossible to find a foundation that sits nicely on flaking skin. It's worth trying products from The Ordinary, because they're cheap and effective (for most) even if you then move on to more expensive products.

You want an acid, like lactic acid (start with the 5%, not 10%), to get softer skin overnight. You definitely need to be using oils at night, like rosehip oil. I'd also recommend a glycolic acid toner, like Pixi Glow Tonic or The Ordinary Glycolic Acid, to use regularly. I find it wipes away dry flakes and so my moisturiser sinks in better and my foundation sits better.

Mikado1 is absolutely right about doing chemical and not physical exfoliation. Don't use a scrub on your face. Lactic acid or the Ordinary's 10 minute peeling solution are both effective.

That's great thank you. I didn't realise all this stuff existed! Off shopping tomorrow and hopefully I'll be glowing by Christmas 🎄

I have awful skin, so dry it flakes after a couple of hours like you describe. It's sensitive and after trying lots of exfoliators I now rely on a flannel! With warm water and a gentle circular action it's really truly the best exfoliating method, and very cheap! A good thick, creamy moisturiser for after.

I've got funny dry skin that hates everything. To exfoliate I've found the Clinique 2 lotion for dry skin is the best, it's so gentle and leaves your skin lovely and radiant and ready for foundation.

For foundation I love Mac face and body - it's very buildable and covers well. It's so moisturising, my skin looks really lovely and still like skin. For additional coverage, use a concealer where needed rather than caking on more foundation.

I also like cover fx natural finish foundation, the Kiko moisturising one that's about £6, and the Ordinary serum foundation. They all sit nicely on dry skin.