Help!! Burning skin / Dermatica

[LadyoftheLavaLamp]

Signed up to Dermatica and used a very sparing x1 pump 2 days apart a few times. I stopped using it 4 days ago, as it had made my skin very dry, tight and stinging.

Have been in the sun a bit today, wearing factor 50, and now it is red and angry, itchy and burning! So much that I’ve had to cancel an evening engagement. It’s also peeling and/scaly depending on which area you look at. Obviously I’ve emailed pictures to Dermatica. I was using Obagi before and my skin looked great and never this bad side-effects wise, feel like I’ve made a terrible mistake 😕

What can I do/put on it? I’m overseas but there is a pharmacy. It’s so hot and stingy heeellpppp

Oh no! Is it sunburn? Do you know what percentage you have? I would use very little... Something soothing the most gentle cream you can find and nothing else. Keep out of sun definitely. Hope it heals soon!

Ok you need to slather a barrier cream on! La Roche Possay is a good one.
This happened to me with Skin + Me but not Dermatica. I had damaged my skin barrier and the sting was awful. I stopped using it for a while and used the repair cream until my face felt ok.
What strength have you got? And what else are you using on your face? You should strip back everything if you continue with it, so just cleanse, without exfoliating, moisturise and spf until your skin has got used to it. Also use it sparingly and sandwich it, so cleanse and moisturise then use Dermatica then moisturise again over the top. Also build up slower so start on twice a week, then move up to 3 times etc.
Your skin is much more sensitive to sun and wind with it, so you need to keep on top
of your spf and reapply it often.