Please help - colour corrector/BB cream for eczema, very dry skin

[cokezero26]

I have eczema so suffer very dry and red skin. I’ve long given up on any foundations but I have been trying several different colour correctors and BB creams, always only buying ones that claim to moisturise.

No matter how much I moisturise my face before applying, the minute I try to put on any of these products my skin immediately starts flaking, and it looks terrible so I just remove it.

I’m so tired of wasting money on products and so tired of always being so red in the face. Does ANYONE have any suggestions?! :(

For reference, the things I’ve been trying most recently were Clinique tinted moisturiser, L’Oréal colour corrector and L’Oréal BB and CC creams.

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor great tip, I’ll remember that!
Out of curiosity, why is E45 such bad stuff? I’m sure they had that tagline ‘developed with dermatologists’.. although I’m coming to realise that doesn’t always mean much!

I think it's because it contains lanolin.

OP I have the same skin as you and have struggled with the same foundation/cleanser issue for a long time. I now have a few products that work really well for me. I use IT Cosmetics Your Skin but Better, which is amazing at covering blemishes/red skin, and providing good coverage without flaking. I also use Dr Sam Bunting Flawless Cleanser which has reduced flakiness/irritation.

I haven't found a single colour corrected that didn't make flaking super visible, Eucerin used to do one and even that was useless.

I actually found powder in place of a liquid/cream product worked pretty well and didn't make flakiness worse/more visible. I used Jane Iredale powder and RMK (which is no longer available in the UK) both worked really well. Just make sure you have moisturised beforehand and given it 10 minutes to sink in. I also only used it in the areas that redness was an issue and not on my whole face so a good colour match was essential. I still use foundation in that manor rather than all over my whole face.

My skin on my face is much improved now and I don't get much flakiness but Bare Minerals tinted moisturiser was very good from a moisturiser point of view to the point I had to stop using it as it started to make my skin a bit greasy! Now I use Dior Face and Body foundation which is wonderful but I only have dry patches around my mouth now, the eczema is well in control on the rest of my face.

Om an aside E45 was prescribed for me by a dermatologist and by my GP when iw as in my teens and it made my eczema so much worse. I saw an improvement within days when I stopped using it, I don't know why it's so widely prescribed for eczema, it was awful.

I agree with others that's it's better to improve the skin, my skin didn't get on with E45, Eurcerin, La Roche Posay, Cereve or Avene although seem to work for others with eczema.
It does like hyaluronic acid serum followed by Cetraben or Curel moisturiser but at the moment I'm trying Cosrx balancium moisturiser because it has ceramides, eczema prone skin has a weakened skin barrier and ceramides help to strengthen that, Cerave also has ceramides I believe.
Evening I use the anti-redness Cetaphil cleanser, more hyaluronic acid, more moisturiser, squalene oil than thinning layer of Vaseline to seal it in.