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Could it be the Aldi skincare?!

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ShiningGonnaShine · 05/03/2021 22:43

I'm 39 and feel like my face has aged so much in the last year... After a brief spell of looking OK last spring/summer (which I put down to upping my game with my skin routine, thanks to some lovely products in the M&S summer beauty bag), it all went to shit last autumn when these monstrous bags appeared under my eyes which just wouldn't go away. I got worried that I'd somehow ruined my face with too much REN glow tonic or something. I tried drinking more water (and less wine, thanks to dry January), sleeping more etc but nothing seemed to work. I honestly looked like I'd aged 10 years.

Anyway, when my posher skin stuff ran out I went back to good old Nivea and it looked even worse. So, the other day, I bought some of the Aldi Lacura Q10 serum and rejuvelate day cream and, I swear, the bags have shrunk back to early 2020 size and my skin has got this lovely glow. This happened the day after I used the products for the first time...!

I don't know what else it could have been - I've got a really stressful week happening, I've got a cold, I'm not sleeping well, dry January DEFINITELY finished for me on Jan 30th etc... Could it really have been the creams that have had this effect, this quickly?

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AnneLovesGilbert · 05/03/2021 22:48

That stuff is magical. I stock pile shamelessly because it’s amazing.

noblegreenk · 05/03/2021 22:50

I love the aldi q10 serum too! It's fab stuff and I was always a bit of a skincare product snob.

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ShiningGonnaShine · 05/03/2021 22:51

Ooh, really!! So I have found the magical elixir of youth and it's only about £2.99 Smile

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ShiningGonnaShine · 05/03/2021 22:52

Of course, now I've decided I REALLY like it, it will be discontinued. Sorry, guys.

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standingonaseesaw · 05/03/2021 22:54

Ooh, that’s good to hear, I’ve just started using it!

hippityhippityhop · 05/03/2021 22:56

I'm intrigued. Currently looking at revamping my regime and don't really know where to start. What recommended?

hippityhippityhop · 05/03/2021 22:56

*what's

AnneLovesGilbert · 05/03/2021 22:57

Don’t you lot buy it all... Angry

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ShiningGonnaShine · 05/03/2021 23:13

@AnneLovesGilbert

Don’t you lot buy it all... Angry
This is a very good point, given it's imminent discontinuance (based on the fact that I now love it and EVERYTHING I love gets cancelled). Think I'll go and panic buy loads of it tomorrow.
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ShiningGonnaShine · 05/03/2021 23:27

@hippityhippityhop

I'm intrigued. Currently looking at revamping my regime and don't really know where to start. What recommended?
It's the Lacura Q10 renew anti wrinkle multi intensive serum and the Lacura Rejuvelate day cream (spf 30)that I've been using. I don't know which one is magical, or if it's the combo of the two (I, unscientifically, started using them at the same time). Save some for me though...
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mrssmiling · 05/03/2021 23:58

I love Lacura and bought some supplies before the first lockdown, including the Liz Earle cleanser dupe, Caviar creams, Rejuvelate and Rose Facial Oil. All excellent products. It has been really useful to be able to buy some products online throughout the year, but I am mystified why Aldi haven’t moved towards having a much wider range of beauty products/perfumes available all the time online.
Do they just want to create demand by limiting availability of beauty Specialbuys? It really irritates me when I can’t buy what I need (ie some perfume dupes, makeup, serums) anytime! I am ordering everything online in lockdown, and much prefer to buy my Aldi beauty products online for hygiene reasons, knowing they will not have been handled by lots of people in the ‘Aisle of Shame’! Grin Anyone else feel the same?

Lynora · 06/03/2021 00:02

It's too perfumed for me. Made my eyes water.

LunaHeather · 06/03/2021 00:03

@Lynora

It's too perfumed for me. Made my eyes water.
Oh is the Aldi stuff perfumed? I don't do serum but was going to get my next moisturiser there. It's where I shop anyway. Their hand cream is v good.

I can't use something heavily perfumed.

Lynora · 06/03/2021 00:06

I found the day cream a bit too perfumed, yes. I only used it once and my eyes streamed.

I do have quite sensitive eyes though.

idontlikealdi · 06/03/2021 00:07

They don't work for me, or the food. Hence the name.

idontlikealdi · 06/03/2021 00:08

I'm not a label snob either blue Nivea is my go to.

Lynora · 06/03/2021 00:09

I'm not a label snob either. I just hate perfumed face creams.

LunaHeather · 06/03/2021 00:33

@idontlikealdi

They don't work for me, or the food. Hence the name.
I love Aldi!
WannabemoreWeaver · 06/03/2021 00:37

The Aldi rose facial oil was amazing. I started using Aldi stuff about 8 years ago, am in my 50s and regularly get told my skin looks great. Cant imagine spending more money now, to be honest.

ajs8 · 06/03/2021 01:03

I use Aldi skincare after spending fortunes on pixi! Aldi’s glycolic and retinol tonic are the best! The Q10 serum, day and night cream are amazing! Welcome to the club!

HoldontoOneMoreDay · 06/03/2021 01:06

Sounds fab, but honestly OP my biggest ever beauty tip is to change the stuff you use all the time. I have to do that because I get contact dermatitis if I use products for more than 6 months or so, so everything is on rotate. But I think new products 'shock' the skin into behaving well.

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ShiningGonnaShine · 06/03/2021 07:51

I agree it's quite perfumed... It did make my eyes stream a bit one night but, to be honest, if it really is reducing my aging eye bags as much as I think it is, I'll put up with it!

This isn't the first time I've used Aldi stuff - I've tried the caviar day cream before and the bog standard blue pot night cream. This is the first stuff that has had this effect. I still use the REN AHA glow tonic (I really love this and bought one of the enormous bottles last summer that is still going strong so it's very good value), plus a superdrug vit c serum and a superdrug hyaluronic serum.

So my routine is...
AM - REN tonic, superdrug vit c, aldi serum, aldi moisturiser
PM, cleanse, hyaluronic serum, aldi serum, aldi moisturiser.

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FreshFaceTime · 06/03/2021 07:51

I used to use the Aldi night cream in a red pot but last time I got a new one a few years back the smell had changed and it was absolutely rank. Used it once then straight in the bin. Really want to give them a try again (but avoid the red one!) Has anyone tried the moisture boost cream? It's a clinique moisture surge dupe and available again from 7th March. Excellent reviews. Might have to give it a whirl.

www.aldi.co.uk/lacura-moisture-boost/p/020137358313100

NotMeNoNo · 06/03/2021 10:59

I use the rejuvelate cream, I did prefer the previous version but its as good as a lot of more expensive ones. BUT Why are the day and night creams in the same colour pot? Don't they realise if you're old enough to need anti wrinkle cream you probably can't read that tiny writing!

Hopdathelf · 06/03/2021 11:03

Has it occurred to you that you might just look a bit better and your skin tone more even in the summer?