New skincare regime - £100 budget, help!

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I've recently turned 40 and my very generous PIL have given me £100 to spend on myself. I'd like to use this money to sort out my skincare regime. I've been very lazy with my skin historically but as I'm getting older it's starting to show and I need to start looking after myself
more. I am increasing my water intake and improving my diet as part of this too.

I currently use a basic body shop tea tree face wash and a L'Oréal moisturiser. My skin is combination, some dry patches but oily on my forehead and in the last 12 months I have really struggled with breakouts of spots on my chin, nose and around my mouth. It's getting me down as I constantly look like a hormonal teenager!

So wise vipers of Mumsnet - if you had a £100 budget to start you off on a good skincare regime, what would you buy?!

'I am increasing my water intake and improving my diet as part of this too.'

Very good plan - what you put into your body is at least as important as what you put on your skin, in my experience

What a generous gift!

Cleansing is absolutely key. I would ditch the face wash as that wont be helping with the dry patches. Do you wear make up, and/or SPF? If so, you need to double cleanse at night. Use an oily / balm type cleanser (no7 Cleansing Balm, Body Shop Camomile Cleansing Balm, Superfacialist Vitamin C cleansing oil all lovely), remove with warm wet flannel- that's the make up and surface dirt gone. Then to clean the skin underneath, repeat the process but with a lighter, cream type cleanser. I love Soap and Glory Peaches and Clean, Your Good Skin Hot Cloth Cleanser, or Loreal Fine Flowers cleansing milk. In the morning, you just need a single cleanse with whatever you use for second cleanse in the evening

A salicylic acid may help with spot outbreaks- Nip and Fab Dragons Blood pads are good, Paula's Choice if you fancy spending more

That's for starters!

Prai - neck and décolletage cream
Cerave - lovely for day to day cleansing. I love washing my face but it can be drying
I never wash my face with a cleanser in the morning unless I’ve done a workout . I just use a face cloth
I swear by a nighttime facial oil followed by a moisturiser to get a good glowy skin (I currently use a Neom facial oil)
Miceller water - I use to take eye makeup off
Ren - their eye gel is lovely and very light

Thanks for the recommendation so far. Lots to have a look at!

Re questions, i don't wear make up day to day anyway and certainly not at the moment. Even on the odd occasion when I do, I don't like the feel of foundation on my skin so use a tinted moisturiser (currently use a Laura mercier one). My normal moisturiser has spf 15 as does my tinted moisturiser when I wear that. I don't use eye cream at all and I'm guessing that is something I should be doing now!

So if no make up or SPF, you only need a single cleanse at night. I would highly recommend a separate SPF on days when you go out - factor 15 isn't high enough and you wont be putting on enough to get that much protection anyway. Wearing a daily SPF is one of the best things you can do for your skin

The jury is out on eye creams. A lot of skincare experts say you don't need a separate one if you take your skincare (serum, moisturiser) over your eye area

Any other issues with your skin? Dullness, pigmentation, fine lines, tightness?