Dry skin and hair

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Please help MN!

For years I've had awful dry skin and hair and no matter what I do, nothing helps.

For my hair, I've gone sulphate free. I've tried washing it once a week and I've tried washing it daily but it's the same either way.
I wash it, condition it, use leave in conditioner and then heat spray. I let it dry naturally and will then straighten it once a week/fortnight.

For my skin, I drink lots of water and moisturise daily but it's still try and the skin on my little finger is practically scaly at this point.

Does anyone have any advice? It's starting to drive me mad!

What products do you use? And what's your actual routine (skin)

What's your diet like? do you drink enough water?

My skin is dry and it really helped eating oily fish regularly (or take a good quality omega supplement) and drinking 2 L of water a day

Vitamins

I use herbal essences sulphate free range on my hair and for my face I use the ordinary face wash and then simple moisturiser

Diet is average but I do drink a lot of water

Hows your oily fish/nut/seed intake?

Ditch the Simple. Awful brand. It's not Simple at all, and was marketed towards oily skin with blemishes and breakouts until they realised "sensitive" was more attractive a selling point.

Try something like La Roche Posay Nutritic Riche for a while, or Embryolisse, something a bit more heavy duty. (tbh, I'm alternating between blue pot Nivea and Astral at the moment)

You might benefit from a hydrating serum. Superdrug Pure is great. Or a hyaluronic acid.Vichy 89 or Hada Labo both excellent.

Practically zero 🙈

Thanks for the tip! I've always used simple moisturiser.
I did try the ordinary but it ran out really quickly which bugged me.

I'll get googling your suggestions 😊

Am also feeling dry at the moment, even crispy sometimes 😆thanks for the recommendations

I have very dry skin and hair. I find Weleda skin food sorts it out when it's really bad. I use it a lot this time of year.

For me hair I use Moroccon oil hydrating shampoo and conditioner. I use their leave in conditioner and oil. I use the light oil as i have fine hair. I put one pump through the ends before i dry it and one after its dry. Its brilliant stuff.

Could you swap to a balm or oil based facial cleanser instead of the face wash? You mentioned straightening your hair, is it naturally curly?