I need a greasy facial wash for very dry skin - any ideas please?

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Until recently I used E45 wash which was very highly greasy and used to drive me nuts as it was impossible to get off my face fully and used to make my towel (and then hair) oily. However, having changed to a Simple facial wash less than 2 weeks ago, I look about 10 years older.

I think they have discontinued the E45 facial wash, but can anyone recommend a hypoallergenic greasy wash instead?

Many thanks

do you want something that you remove with water (it sound so) or with cotton wool?

Have you tried cleansing oils- Shu Uemura is the original and comes in a variation for dry skin- try Space NK.

Or I seem to remember a carrot butter cleanser form Organic Pharmacy/ Boots. I didn't get on with it- and I have comb/oily skin.

BTW can you just use E45 moisturiser as a cleanser- like "cold cream" that our grannies would have used. Or Epaderm... that gets prescribed for children who have excema and is a multipurpose greasy cleanser/ moist'r.

HTH

I used to use aqueous cream as a cleanser when my face was very dry.

Also find the pink estee lauder - soft cleanse I think its called was a nice wash off one thats not too drying. I also find the simple one quite stripping.

Liz Earle is a good one to try as well and IIRC tesco do a good copy of it, its a detergent free cleansing cream you wash/wipe off with a wet cloth.

Angelina - to remove with water would be my preference. I will look out for the carrot butter but I don't think things like Space NK are hypoallergenic are they? I'll look into Epaderm too - that might work well, thanks.

Moaningminnie - I'm allergic to aqueous cream unfortunately. As well as the dry face problem I have developed cracked and itchy skin on my hands, so I have to be really careful what I put on. Interesting what you say about the Simple one.

I'm wondering whether something like olive oil might work too - though I don't really want to go to bed smelling like someone's salad!

I think you might be better off not using water. I use thick creamy cleansers (try the Boots rose cold cream - it's in really pretty old fashioned packaging and only costs £4 or something) and then either wipe them off with cotton wool or use a hot, damp muslin cloth to wipe them off. Much better than using any kind of rinse-off or foaming cleanser IMO.

Using oil and wiping off with flannel or muslin cloth is just as good and might suit you better if you've got really sensitive skin. Try almond oil if you don't like the smell of olive oil. There have been lots of threads on here about the Oil Cleansing Method.

liz earle makes my eyes react badly

Eve Loms cleanser is good for dry skin, it's the consistency of vaseline. Boots and Tesco do their own 'versions' of it, cleansing 'balms' I think they call them.

Thanks all. In searching for the various things you have recommended on the Boots website, I have discovered that Boots still seem to stock E45 wash .

Cetaphil is excellent.

Vichy Normaderm always - you can go into any stockists and get a little sample kit of the range that suits you.