Facial Moisturizer

Moisturizers with vitamin C and E and polypeptides daily. A sugar scrub two or three times a month. Retin A, every night or every other.

Plenty of sunscreen reapplied throughout the day helps, too, OP.

Sunscreen is more important, and yes is too late!!

R1 Can you recommend a brand? I am losing this battle.

No it’s not too late. Go for biological products. Don’t put chemical shit on your skin. Cleanse your face in the evening before you go to sleep with a bio face cleansing wipe and apply some bio face oil or cream. In the morning apply some cream/oil before you go out.

Anyone else use Nivea cream?

Rosehip oil, OP. It’s amazing - and I have really punished my epidermis over the years.

Please mention brand names, I'm curious too.

Klairs. I have a 9-step care routine. This is my favorite evening cream.

An excellent mask you wear to bed from Klairs. It’s in Amazon.

My daily sun cream from Klairs.

Use this before sunblock in the day and before creams and masks but after toner in the evening.

I am lucky to have never had much of a zit or acne problem (even during later teen years), but the flip side is having dryer skin that could be prone to wrinkles in later years. So far so good - but I do slather my face with coconut oil on a daily basis. To me, it feels amazing and again I need the moisture. This might not be ideal for all skin types. Even an expensive organic coconut oil is downright cheap in comparison to face creams. This one is usually around $10 at a decent store that carries organic products (and as it turns out - you can even buy it at Target I just found out!) and will last you forever (assuming that you don't also use it to cook with). Highly recommended.

A generic 50+ SPF sunscreen summer and winter

A good basic moisturizer: The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors, Cerave Daily Moisturizing Lotion (not the expensive, dinky bottle but the large bottle that you can also use on your body) or Derma E DMAE Moisturizer

Rosehip or camellia seed oil

Lubriderm or Cerave.

love cerave, can’t go wrong. seconding rose seed oil too, from the ordinary.

Clinique also has a good line of skincare for men. You can find it at Ulta, Macy’s, etc.

Don't suntan! Those idiots on the loungers are destroying their skin, on purpose. Always wear oil free sunscreen. Oil free sunscreen won't clog your pores. Neutrogena and Coppertone both make a nice small portable tube of oil free sunscreen for your face.

I have oily skin. I don't use expensive products, just Neutrogena. I specifically use their Pink Grapefruit acne product line because it has salicylic acid. Men have bigger pores than women. Salicylic acid gets down deep into our big pores to clear out dirt and oil. It's not just for people with acne.

I wash my face twice a day (morning and bedtime) with oil free cleanser. No soap or body wash on your face, ever! I also use an oil free facial scrub 3 times a week to exfoliate dead skin. Then I apply an oil free moisturizer, for sure at bedtime.

I always get compliments on my clear skin and people are shocked when I tell them I'm 43. They think I'm in my mid 20s-early 30s. I also hear positive things about CeraVe too. My dermatologist recommended CeraVe and Neutrogena for buying cheaper facial products at Target and Walmart.

I only started this facial regimen about 3 years ago, so it's never too late to get started!

Just a few simple (and inexpensive) steps.

I hate these threads. No one takes any of the advice and/or tells us how it went. Fuck it.

I used to do these 8 part regimens, and it made me break out. Now I just wash my face morning and night with some Cetaphil stuff, and use a non-greasy moisturizer in the morning as needed. Works for me.

I also started changing my pillowcase every two days or so, and I think this probably is important.

This one works for me. It’s cheap, and light enough not to clog my pores.

You might have to experiment, as everyone’s skin Is different. But in most cases, using any moisturizing product is going to be better than using nothing. (In THE HANDMAID’S TALE, the enslaved women use the butter from their meal trays.)

And I avoid the sun like Gollum, but sunscreen, yes.

Also, add moisture from the inside by drinking enough water.

Thanks r18, I'm going to try the Neutrogena stuff.

You're in your thirties, OP? It's all over, darling. Say goodbye to beauty dreams. Hello Medicare.

Exfoliation and eye cream are a con.

Those strips and peels and stuff are even worse.

Neutrogena, Nivea, Cerave all that cheap drugstore crap is full of petrolatum and other chemicals and is going to harm your skin. You need a serious high-quality brand like Obagi. At least look for something without petrolatum or mineral oil in it.

If you are stuck with the drugstore, budgetwise, the La Roche Posay stuff is alright.

I can't believe it has been five hours and nobody has told me I am white trash for buying La Roche Posay products.

Nothing, OP.

Rinse face with warm water at night, no soap, no cleanser.

Dry face briskly with a towel. That's it.

You’re welcome.

But! But! What about the $75 Javanese volcano dust exfoliating scrubbing deep pore cleanser? The $150 organic sheep placenta rejuvenating eye cream? Dear god, what about the toner? The serum? The masks? Oh the humanity!

I'm a fan of Cream of Some Young Guy generously applied.

[R33] has nailed it to the horizon and back. I would add the words, "organic" and the term, "no fraus were harmed during the testing of this product." And, of course MADE IN CHINA. But what do I know?

Do a series of chemical peels while prepping with retinol. You’ll look younger and your skin will glow.

I like The Ordinary's Marula Oil.

CeraVe does NOT have mineral oil or petrolatum or any crap in it, not even fragrance.

I use the CeraVe PM during the day (it has niacinamide) it's light weight, no silicones and great for summer. Great around eyes too.

Well, I've managed to get my face to look a little younger, with a nice glow, and no acne. But my pores are still gigantic. Help.

Hah, I’m in the same boat and was up late last night doing research. From what I can gather I need to go buy something with niacinamide, something with azelaic acid and something with salicylic acid... the only product I own right now is a bar of cocounut soap which I use for everything

Revolution Skincare Mattify Boost

I started moisturizing (with Lab Series and Clinique products) when I was thirty three, about 20 years ago, and I often wonder how weathered and wrinkled I'd look now if not for that. I do look younger because my hair is still mostly dark, but I think not having as many wrinkles also helps. Maybe genetics, but I can't help thinking the products added something.

They don't do anything for brown sun damage spots, though.