Dry and sensitive skin, face cream wanted - superskin dupe/cheaper alternative?

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I have very dry, sensitive skin, and I’m perimenopausal/getting wrinklier. I love Liz Earle superskin but it’s rather pricey and I like to slather it on, so it’s costing a lot!

Does anyone have a good suggested alternative please? I have Beauty Pie but haven’t been massively impressed with the face creams I've tried before.

Thank you!

You will get loads of advice/recommendations here but it will
depend really on how sensitive your skin is. I have very sensitive skin and can now only use the following: sudocream, Nivea & rose water cleanser. That’s it, anything else ruins my skin.

I was recommended on here to try dermatica and I did try it twice but even it was to sore on my skin and I was advised by them not use it any further. Basically as little chemicals/perfumed as possible should do the trick.

I’ve binned everything and now just use the white tub Nivea. It’s safe for face and body and lasts ages.

I've had dry skin all my life, realised commercial creams were just further inflaming it and for the last 10 years I use oil as a moisturizer. Good quality olive, mustard, black seed or coconut. Orange blossom oil seemed to make the dryness worse though.

I have super dry sensitive skin.
One of my recent favs has been one from Paula's Choice.
I've heard good stuff about MooGoo. I'm going to try their hair products as my scalp.is very sensitive.

I use white tub nivea or cetaphil now, my sensitive skin has got worse with peri menopause and these suit the dryness and sensitivity.

I've actually started using my son's Child's farm unscented moisturiser and it's great - similar consistency to the white Nivea tub (maybe slightly thinner)

My skin is sensitive, I use Cerave Am moisturiser, for normal to dry skin, around £15 on Amazon. My skin does really well with it. If I stick to products from Cerave, Cetaphil and la Roche posay, my skin copes well.

CervaVe

I often use E45 moisturing lotion which comes in a big container and is cheap. Great for sensitive and dry skin.

Another one for Ceraphil however don't get it in your eyes as it stings soooo much!

I've just started using the 5 step skin kit from wild mint. At the moment it's buy one kit get one free on the websites, so it's £69 for two full kits that last ages. Five different products that really help my dry sensitive skin and don't irritate it.

I'm sensitive to a lot of things, but I'm not sensitive to everything so I probably have different sensitivities to you. I use Nip + Fab Dragon's Blood plumping serum in the morning to plump out my wrinkles and Aldi Lacura Caviar Night cream at night. About two or three times a week I use Roc Retinol Correction Wrinkle Correct Serum under the Lacura. I go really red and blotchy when I apply it and to begin with I felt like I had wind burn the next day, but my skin is getting used to it and it does even out skin tone well.

If you are very, very dry then La Roche Posay Hyalu B5 Aquagel SPF30 is amazing, it makes me look very shiny but my skin feels great at the end of the day. Normally I use Isdin Age-Repair SPF50, it looks better and it doesn't hurt my eyes, so it's better than most others that I've tried, but my skin does feel a bit dry by the end of the day.

I like Nivea or Astral for my face, although Astral is harder to find nowadays (Superdrug?).

After a lifetime of ridiculously dry/atopic skin, I recently discovered this stuff. It's a total game-changer. A little goes a very, very, very long way.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mixa-Baby-Liniment-Hypoallergenic/dp/B09DZ4Y34P/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PBUSO664FFRW&keywords=mixa%2Bliniment&qid=1706480125&sprefix=mixa%2Bliniment%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-1&th=1

Very sensitive skin here, post menopause and its white tub Nivea for me for day, blue for night

I used to tolerate Superdrug's cleanse and polish dupe - the Vit E one and the Vit E serum was pretty good , just Superdrug is in a different town so I rarely get there

In my late 30s, while living abroad, I had a huge allergic reaction to some well known and fairly expensive internationally known products. I spent 2 years going backwards and forwards to various dermatologists and trying different moisturising creams on my sensitised, red skin. My husband's job changed and we returned to the UK. I saw a wonderful dermatologist who recommended Cetraben cream. My skin has recovered apart from a red blotchy patch on my forehead. Cetraben is a trifle greasy so I smooth it on and wipe off the excess. It works for me.

Kiehls ultra facial cream. It's very moisturising but doesn't feel heavy on. Goes on easily and fragrance free as well.

This is amazing and changed my skin, huge improvements https://www.boots.com/boots-skin-edit-moisturising-cleansing-butter-50ml-10306996

Very dry & very very sensitive skin & I use Eucerin face cream - urea repair (& their dermatoclean cleanser & toner)

Those of you using Nivea white, did you realise the third ingredient is liquid paraffin? It's a mineral oil which our skin can't absorb or breathe through and has been found in studies to actually cause aging of the skin long term. E45 is the same, and cetraben d Nivea blue are even worse! Refined petroleum products are used simple because they are pretty much the cheapest softening agent you can put in skin care products and give the illusion of "moisturing" but over time they are the exact opposite and are absolutely Not skin friendly!

There are plenty of reasonably priced more natural products out there that are great for sensitive skin but I personally second a pp for using just pure oils (you can even blend your own if you've time, good fun!); I would add shea butter and jojoba oil as being good options too, less greasy than coconut.

Plant facial oils works better for my dry skin than creams, especially mineral oil based moisturisers. I currently make up a jojoba and rose hip mix oil. Costs about £11

Weleda skin food is amazing.

I like Neal's Yard, or Antipodes stuff with avocado oil. A bit spendy, but a little goes a long way.

As somebody who has skin allergies, plus periods of eczema and/or psoriasis around my eyes, I'm always very careful with what I use.
However, I am now a massive fan of Bold Natural Soap's whipped face butters. I have the aloe one, and it's amazing. It feels thick and quite greasy going on, but melts into your face so quickly. It's amazing under makeup, smells nice (I usually have to avoid anything scented due to allergies, but this is all natural) and just makes my skin glow. Honestly it's been a game changer.
Prior to this, I've been using Aveeno and The Ordinary moisturiser for many years, which were good but I'm preferring this right now.

Edited to add, this isn't suitable if you are vegan/vegetarian

Some great suggestions on this thread. I use La Roche Posay Dermallego creme as it's the only thing that helped when my face broke into a stinging rash. Recommended by a French pharmacist. It does work for my dry skin. I also use the Curel moisturing spray first. Unfortunately I find Nivea blue cream or just plain oils sit on my skin and don't really solve the dry problem. Definitely no fragrance for me sadly.

@HumanbyDesign that's really interesting. I had no idea,about petroleum! Thank you for sharing that 😬