Skincare Routine For New Mum

[MammaStorm]

Hey all,

can you please help out a tired and confused new mum!

I have never had much of a skincare routine, I am 37 and have always had good skin. But since having my baby a month ago the skin of my face is soooo dry and when I put on my make up it looks like my face is covered in scales.

Do you have any recommendations for an easy skincare routine and products to sort out my dry skin and help with how my makeup lays on my face?

I have about £30 to spend on products.

TYIA

With £30 I recommend the ordinary.

You can go on their website and they'll help you figure what you could use. Then search the products on Google to see if there's a sale on anywhere, but their products are budget friendly, but really good.

A basic routine would include:
Cleanser
Serum
Moisturiser
SPF.

You could add in a weekly acid mask. I sometimes use the ordinary aha/bha.

A basic routine would include:
Cleanser
Serum
Moisturiser
SPF.

and eye cream

Hi OP, I have combination skin. Here are the products I'd recommend:

Bioderma micellar water
Cerave hydrating cleanser
Byoma moisturiser (I use the gel one, but the rich cream might be better for your skin type)
Hero spf
Beauty of joseon retinal eye cream (only at night, and all over my face)

For exfoliation, I like the ordinary lactic acid 5%

No aha cream with dry skin!
Are you breastfeeding?

You need to put moisture back into your skin. So nothing foaming. Do you have sunflower oil in the kitchen? Put some in a little dish or small glass. Put 5 drops on our hands, warm up by rubbing your hands together and massage onto your face. Rinse a soft face cloth in warm water and gently wash off the oil.

Then put spf on top. That's all you need til your skin sorts itself out.

Drink more water in the meantime.

One of The Ordinary face oils at night and ceraVe moisturising cream during the day. Use a cream makeup cleanser.

Are you breastfeeding, @MammaStorm? If so there are some products that aren’t safe/aren’t recommended- so that would rule out the retinol and BHAs that PPs have suggested.

If your skin is dry and dehydrated I’d just start it gently in any case - gentle oil based cleanser, a bland moisturiser and an SPF.