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[Experiment627]

New thread!!!!

Sorry I did not see the other thread getting full!!! Really hope you guys will find this new thread!!!

Aldi Lacura Advent Calendar has arrived £54.99 if any of you are interested -
www.aldi.co.uk/lacura-advent-calendar/p/714665559707500

Has anyone tried the Lacura Peptide moisturiser yet? I’ve never used peptides before, are they any good?
www.aldi.co.uk/lacura-peptide-moisturiser-2-pack/p/000000516547100

PS I do not work for Aldi, just addicted to their bargain skincare, plus has got me into taking better care of my ugly mug/self care

Looks great, @crispsarny. Never used peptides myself. Still working out which acids and serums are ok with my rosacea and sensitivity.

@JunieSpoony I used to have terrible rosacea, I started using completely natural skin care from places like Handmade Naturals, I think that they helped my skin to heal. Over the years started to learn about cleansing & been slowly introducing other stuff, I’ve been really happy with Lacura products as they have been kind to my sensitive skin, I really like their toners & serums. I still use natural oils & have back up natural creams in case I get irritation, I can’t put anything other than a natural oil like almond on my eye area & only to gently cleanse it, my eyes can’t cope with much.

I use this serum www.aldi.co.uk/lacura-q10-multi-intensive-serum/p/080918177809600
I thought it was worth a punt at £2.99, it’s great, I got it based on the great reviews. I’m also using the Lacura Acacia toner & serum, previously the Lacura Rose toner & oil have all been great on my skin. One of the reasons I love Aldi products so much is for the price if I don’t get on with it not much lost, I couldn’t afford to do this with the high end skin care, so far everything I’ve tried has been great on my skin.

I also had horrible rosacea. I had tried all the “regular” rosacea stuff, like antibiotics, azeleic acid, every other acid, etc… I decided to get very sciency about it. First researched why people get it in the first place. (Ewww, gross - eyelash mites.) A treatment program of Ivermectin cream for that. (Especially thick layer through eyebrows at night, ringing eyes and then rubbed onto face, neck & décolleté.) *That is Ivermectin’s intended purpose, btw, and this was about 15 years ago… just in case you think I’m one of “those” people, I’m really not. Deep clean of the house, and most especially bed linens, mattress, new pillows, etc. (Also treated all of these things with tea tree oil for extra debugging.) Obviously had to chuck out all eye makeup and mascara. 💔Once the treatment course was finished, I began using Tretinoin on top of tranexamic acid in hyaluronic acid serum. (Paula’s Choice have recently released a retinol with tranexamic acid which would probably be great.) The Tranexamic Acid helps to slowly get rid of the broken capillaries.

@crispsarny I've tried that Aldi moisturiser, it is very light and gel-like, sinks in very quickly. I'm not too keen as it doesn't feel moisturising enough for me. They are aping Drunk Elephant packaging but the product is definitely not the same. The Lacura Rejuvelate moisturiser is more my sort of thing.

Cult beauty launches their GWP today (Wednesday) not sure what time, haven’t checked yet. Looks kind of interesting, I’ll
Get it because I want to order myself a bed of nails and a new foundation, also a couple of bits for my niece’s birthday, and I want some freebie minis for dds advent calendars. Some new things in the GWP I haven’t seen or heard of before which is great, no crappy Augustinian bader in sight (unless I’ve overlooked it!) and only a few repeats that I’ve had before. Certainly not ones I mind receiving again. At first glance it looked promising anyway.

Apologies, thought I’d put this on the GWP thread! This may not be the post you wanted to see if you’re already hoarding

Thanks for the rosacea ideas. I’ve just restarted religiously using the Ivermectin and it’s helping the colour. I haven’t had a patch of bumps for a while despite lots of stress. I’ve been taking a whole load of supplements recommended for my migraines and think they might have also helped my skin (B2, CoQ10 and Mg). It still goes red super fast if it doesn’t like anything, or after a shower any hotter then tepid, etc etc.

@TheChosenTwo, that’s a thread I’m going to have to join now!

@JunieSpoony - if you wanted to try tranexamic acid lotions (basically watery hyaluronic acid serums in big bottles - marvellous!) They certainly won’t hurt, and it’s an anti-inflammatory that helps reduce redness by stopping the bleeding of bursting capillaries and calming them all down. They are both Japanese products and even though they state that they are whitening lines, please ignore the whitening concept. That refers to it’s effect on freckles and melasma, etc… None of this is skin-bleaching. I wouldn’t recommend that - for all the reasons.

The ones I have used and love are the Shiseido Senka White Beauty Lotion (and the serum in the same range for extra go power!) *This is cheaper everyday line from Shiseido, not high-end department store line.
And Hada Labo Shirojyun Lotion and the Premium cream in that line is the bomb too. (It’s very light, like a gel cream.)

Links so you can check them out. Pretty sure there are other sites too. YesStyle explains the product used pretty well. Just pointing out that prices are Australian dollars, but suspect they do have a Canadian site as well.

Shiseido :- www.yesstyle.com/en/list.html?bpt=48&q=Senka+white

Hada Labo:- www.yesstyle.com/en/list.html?bpt=48&q=Shirojyun

Wow, thanks @Justilou1! I’ll happily go down those rabbit holes

Incredible prices, and it automatically showed up in CAD$. I’m going to have to chop up my credit card

By incredible I meant low, but I daren’t even look at how much I’ve spent on myself this month

@TheChosenTwo I love that there is a gift with purchase thread!

@Justilou1 you know so much!!! And what really impresses me is you are able to explain it all so well. I tried the Superdrug tranexamic acid a while back and did not see any improvement in my skin but did not look to see if my capillaries were looking better.

@Justilou1 thanks for the info, I have the Haba Labo Hyaluronic acid which is good, will try the Shirojyun Lotion out. Thanks @Ponks they had the single pots back in on the website so ordered to try, was reading comparison reviews & like you they said not as good as Drunk Elephant. Goes to look at the Rejuvelate cream

I’ve actually found something I don’t like from Aldi, their new Lacura organic Avocado hand wash doesn’t agree with my skin, was described as non drying & cleans gently, is not the case for me my hands went red, sore & started to bleed again so back to Avalon Organics hand washes as they are lovely for my skin. I love ESPA bergamot & jasmine hand wash which I treated myself to in their sale last Christmas, it’s pricey but good quality need less so lasts a while, I have a bottle I am saving which I will crack open this Christmas

I have two empties to report:

• Revlon eksperience sebum control balancing hair cleanser: liked this. Was not too drying and smells nice
• Bed Head resurrection conditioner 3: got this in an advent. Cannot stand the overly sweet smell but actually works well.

I am coming to the end of a bottle of shower gel and am going to try soap for a while... have broken out a bar of Heno de Pravia and it smells SO good!!!

Got an empty, wouldn’t RP, didn’t find it to be especially hydrating.

@Experiment627 & @JunieSpoony - I am studying nursing atm. Not sure which direction I want to take with it, but dermatology & cosmetology fields are of interest. (But so are a couple of others…)
Just want to add that tranexamic acid does take a while to work. It’s not an overnight treatment and obv useless without sunscreen, esp. if trying to treat sun damage. One of the reasons I like these products vs western ones is that the size, price and consistency allows you to treat large areas (boobs to hairline) easily, and you don’t mind slapping on enough of it to be effective. (Plus it’s an absolute joy to use, is gentle, soothing, has all the hyaluronic acid of a western serum in it as well, so you don’t need to double-up.) I switched out to the Vitamin C one and it’s okay, but I shall return to the whitening ones as soon as done.

Purchases. The scrubs are amazing

Lovely ladies - could you give me some assistance?

I was reading packaging on my new Inkey collagen booster and it’s describing how to layer products:
-clean
-hydrate
-treat
-moisturize
-SPF

My confusion - what is the difference between hydrate and moisturize?

Oh and an empty - Oskia Renaissance mask.I really liked this, it was a wee one from the Cult Beauty GWP, however I’m not sure I would shell out £60 odd quid for a full size one.

@Justilou1 I'm using the Superdrug tranexamic booster and only just realised that I've stopped using my colour corrector. I do think it's effective.

I didn't know that it can improve spider veins. I have some on the tops of my legs so might try on there.

I'm eyeing up your recommendations so they're going on my RP list so thank you.

Not much to report here empties wise apart from a sachet of oliverum bath salts. They were ok.

@CommanderBurnham - Superdrug isn’t available here in Aus unfortunately. I’m pleased that UK is quicker off the mark to get onto these things than Australia is! I don’t think I have seen any Tranaxemic topical treatments available here yet at all!!! (So behind the times!!!) I’m very glad that Tranaxemic acid is working out for you too. Isn’t it great stuff??? Even my very, very red décolleté (Aussie sun damage) is now almost entirely sorted, and I used to have people commenting on my “severe sunburn” or “allergies”. The main reasons I prefer the Japanese formulations are the cost and the size of bottle. Generally speaking, Hada Labo HA Lotions are multimolecular weight (going into more levels of the skin) than the Ordinary or Inkey List, etc, and are in 170ml bottles and as I have three teenagers in the house, I buy several at a time and qualify for free shipping. They cost about 1.5x what I would spend on a 15ml bottle of the Ordinary HA serum and my experience is that they are much more effective. I also have no qualms about sloshing it all over my body underneath body lotion if required. (Menopausal AF, so it is often required.)

@SlatternIsMyMiddleName - very good question re moisturizing and hydrating, so my explanation will be a little wordy. (Hope this helps.)
Moisturizers contain ingredients called emollients (fats and oils), humectants (glycerine and Hyaluronic Acid - also hydrating ingredients, but their purpose in moisturiser is to increase the efficacy of the water used as a solvent/emulsifier and make it available to the skin cells as well), Oils (Squalane, Nut Oils, etc) or Occlusives (Petrolatum, Parafin, Mineral Oil.) These are all pretty much designed to provide a protective layer on top of the skin to soothe dry skin, prevent chapping, provide a smoother surface for some makeups (depending on skin type and makeups) and the humectant ingredients can also penetrate the surface, cosmeceutical ingredients like ceramides, etc, but probably not as effectively as a serum would. (*Although more modern gel creme formulations definitely MUCH more effective than standard crèmes for this purpose, depending on skin type, these formulations absolutely have a place.)
Hydration is the most important (IMO) step. (Especially when heating and airconditioning is used.) Hydrators most used these days are Hyaluronic Acid and Glycerine. The most effective HA formulations have what they call “multi-molecular weight” HA, which means that it carries gets through to different levels of the skin and attracts water to those areas. It is believed that these products can also carry cosmeceutical ingredients with them more effectively also.
HA is the most amazing ingredient, but must be used correctly or it can actually CAUSE dehydration rather than help it. It must be applied to damp skin, and have some kind of occlusive layer applied afterwards or it can actually move back out of the area it has been applied to, taking water from the cells with it.
Moisturizing is important to stop further dehydration. This is an area where I personally wouldn’t invest huge amounts.
Moisturizing ingredients are almost always cheap to produce and do the same thing. You just have to find a formulation that suits you. Most people have skin that is dehydrated. Very few have clinically “dry” skin. Slapping thick creams on the surface of the skin won’t address what’s going on underneath it, and can actually cause irritation and clogging if the wrong ingredients are used and the skin is desperate for water.
If I am totally honest, I don’t use a separate moisturizer during the day unless my face is extremely dry - and that doesn’t happen anymore. I use my HA lotion (it’s a serum, but they call it a lotion) , spot treat some discoloration with vitamin C serum, then follow with sunscreen, which serves as a moisturiser/occlusive. I use a light gel creme at night because we have aircon on already.
I also use cheap, scented body lotion from drugstore as my skin isn’t sensitive, but in winter I always bump up to LRP Atoderm or equivalent to stop the dry skin itchies. (Can use on face if required then!)
Hope that helps!