I have sensitive and acne prone skin, I’m in my early 40s. I usually stick to simple or boots products, recently I’ve been using a boots face wash with salicylic acid in it, simple face toner, a salicylic acid serum and a simple moisturiser. My skin had never looked better than these last few weeks. Anyway I ran out of moisturiser so decided to try a boots collagen moisturiser, I used it twice and on the second day my face started to itch and came out in tiny itchy spots all over, I assumed I must have been allergic to the moisturiser so stopped it and went back to a simple one. But now I’m not so sure, I thought the rash would just die down but what’s actually happened is my whole face has dried out to the extent that it’s really tight and the skin has gone quite scaley. I put make up on for the first time since Tuesday (the day it flared up) today and had to get it off as soon as I got home as my fave felt so dry and tight, now I’ve smothered it in Vaseline.
Just wondering if people think it was an allergic reaction or have I overdone it with the salicylic acid? I’m gutted because for the first time I years my skin looked good!!