Can anyone recommend a good not too expensive everyday moisturiser?

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For dry, sensitive mature skin! Thanks in advance x

I’ve been using the Inkey List ceramide one, plus their ectoin serum, for a few years now. I’m 55 with dry slightly sensitive skin. Everything I tried was pilling and rubbing off prior to that which really annoyed me but my skin feels amazing with what I’m currently using.

Im nearly 70, I’ve used just about every brand over many decades, often the cheapest Olay through my 30s and 40s, and the one I always go back to with huge relief, is Lacura Rejuvelate in the red jar, from Aldi. It absorbs quickly, never greasy, my skin feels great all day. I won’t use anything else now.

I switched to “drugstore” brands during Covid when counters were closed, and have never gone back. I use, morning:

Inkey list serum after Cerave cleanser, then Cerave moisturiser with SPF 50

Night - Inkey List serum, a thing from The Ordinary that’s meant to reduce redness, I can’t remember what it’s called, then Cerave moisturiser with no SPF

A couple of times a week I use the Dr Dennis Gross peel pad things, and I usually do a HA sheet mask at weekends too.

I received a tube of skin food in an advent calendar and it’s amazing. Now use every night and some days over winter. Calms my red areas and although it’s quite thick it does absorb well.

Nivea!

I use Aveeno Dermexa and it's fabulous. It's incredibly hydrating and soothing and is oat based. I have very sensitive skin and apply it liberally in the morning and after my pm shower. They also do a body oil which is good and inexpensive.

Superdrug own Vitamin E day cream. <£3, not too heavy or light, little bit of SPF, works great with my eczema, doesn’t give me spots.

Weleda Almond face lotion. It’s amazing and doesn’t make my sensitive skin flare up. Love it.

The Inkey List one is reduced to £10 in the Amazon sale just now.

Cetaphil is also good

Olay double action day & night cream.
Couldn't get my usual Olay moisturiser last month so tried this. I have really sensitive skin & this moisturiser works well. Currently £5 for 50ml in Tesco.

So how do hormone patches work?

Thank you!

It works like any other cream or lotion you put in your skin. The ingredients penetrate the skin and the tissue underneath and surrounding it. It only works locally to reduce pain and swelling.

Transdermal delivery patches are very different from creams and lotions. Creams and lotions are designed for local delivery of stuff that doesn't need a controlled or precise dosage. Transdermal patches are designed for precise delivery of medicines. The ingredients themselves (usually drugs because the method is relatively expensive) have to be designed to penetrate the skin/blood barrier, not all molecules are capable of this.

Exactly - this is why I struggle to find a good one as the ones with SPF of 30+ are either greasy or not great moisturisers and leave me dry. I did used to use City Block which had SPF 50 and made me feel comfortable and can't find anything similar.

It was a rhetorical question, @mumwheresmyribena .

I’ve always used Olay sensitive beauty fluid .. works a treat

It was a question that deserved an answer because there is a distinct difference between a cream or lotion and a transdermal patch.

The most important ingredient is spf.
I use avene, but noticed they have changed it. Removed the spf and created a different spf one, which is more expensive

Might try the aveeno

It's really nice.

My post was in response to "Your skin is a literal barrier"

I've started using Epaderm cream from super drug. A little pot is about £4 and you only need a tiny drop. My dry skin feels and looks a million times better. It's for sensitive skin so has no nice added fragrance but it really works.

What about HRT gel and many other products that are injested through the skin?

Olay 7 signs is lovely, I use the spf daytime one after spritzing my face with rose water.
Evening I use Astral. It’s easier to rub in than Nivea.
Tret first, then astral then top with Bio Oil.