Mature skin- please recommend a moisturizer

[Anonymous]

Evening routine: vitamin C serum and tretinoin, maybe 4-5 nights/week
Morning: CE ferulic serum, Trader Joe’s facial sunscreen

What moisturizer should I use?
Any hydro gel type I’ve tried burns like heck.
I’ve been slathering on Nivea cream in the evening but need some moisturizer for mornings.

Overall dry skin that’s now more sensitive with Tretinoin use

[Anonymous]

I like Olay Regenerist (day) and Olay with Retinol (night) but I am not sure whether Olay Regenerist would be ok with tretinoin.

[Anonymous]

I use Cerave PM in the mornings.

[Anonymous]

Stop using vit c serum at night. You are already using a potent one in the mornings- anything more is causing increased sensitivity and irritation

I like Dr Rogers a lot. It is very simple, no fragrance, acids, essential oils, silicons, etc. but does a great job. I use the lotion in the day and the heavier cream at night. It’s perfect.

[Anonymous]

I like Obagi Hydrate, and (when I want something thicker) La Roche Posay cicaplast

I am 50 - almost 51 - with VERY sensitive skin.

[Anonymous]

If moisturizer is burning that’s always a sign to me that I’ve gone too far with the tret or the whatever else, much more than anything about the moisturizer itself.

Do you wash your face in the morning? What really helps me is to not do that. Just put moisturizer and/or sunscreen on. I don’t wash my face until I’ve gotten sweaty or dirty or whatever’s on the day’s agenda. My derm has blessed this approach for me but obviously everyone’s skin is different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use Cerave PM in the mornings.

Same! I love this stuff. I use it at night on non-tretonin days. I use it in the morning before my Elta Md SPF lotion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If moisturizer is burning that’s always a sign to me that I’ve gone too far with the tret or the whatever else, much more than anything about the moisturizer itself.

Do you wash your face in the morning? What really helps me is to not do that. Just put moisturizer and/or sunscreen on. I don’t wash my face until I’ve gotten sweaty or dirty or whatever’s on the day’s agenda. My derm has blessed this approach for me but obviously everyone’s skin is different.

Yes, this too! ^ I feel like all that talk about barriers is sort of nonsense - but it probably is correct that you need to give your skin a little reset. I had to stop using tret and go back to my .5 retinol when my skin felt like it was on fire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If moisturizer is burning that’s always a sign to me that I’ve gone too far with the tret or the whatever else, much more than anything about the moisturizer itself.

OP here- I actually had this sensitivity to hydro gel type moisturizers before Tretinoin; there must be an ingredient in there that my skin dislikes.
I use a very mild cleanser if at all

[Anonymous]

That’s a lot of vitamin C with tret. Drop it at night. I love Paula’s Choice Replenishing Moisturizer. I went through a million ranging from very expensive (SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid) to drugstore brands (Vanicream, Cerave, etc) and all of them caused irritation. The PC one is gentle, rich, but not greasy.

[Anonymous]

I use Kiehls Ultra Facial Cream with sunscreen (SPF 30). I liked their mineral one better but they discontinued it.

I've been using Gold Bond Anti Age/Crepe (or something like that) on my neck and arms and it works surprisingly well for a drugstore brand. I read positive reviews of it somewhere so tried it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s a lot of vitamin C with tret. Drop it at night. I love Paula’s Choice Replenishing Moisturizer. I went through a million ranging from very expensive (SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid) to drugstore brands (Vanicream, Cerave, etc) and all of them caused irritation. The PC one is gentle, rich, but not greasy.

Oh, one more thing. The TJ sunscreen. Is that the Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen dupe? Unseen Sunscreen really irritated my skin after starting tret. I switched to EltaMD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That’s a lot of vitamin C with tret. Drop it at night. I love Paula’s Choice Replenishing Moisturizer. I went through a million ranging from very expensive (SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid) to drugstore brands (Vanicream, Cerave, etc) and all of them caused irritation. The PC one is gentle, rich, but not greasy.

Oh, one more thing. The TJ sunscreen. Is that the Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen dupe? Unseen Sunscreen really irritated my skin after starting tret. I switched to EltaMD.

I'd love to know this as well. I just took a look at the price of Unseen - holy cow - pretty sure I wasn't paying near $40 for a small tube of this in past years! When did it get so expensive!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That’s a lot of vitamin C with tret. Drop it at night. I love Paula’s Choice Replenishing Moisturizer. I went through a million ranging from very expensive (SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid) to drugstore brands (Vanicream, Cerave, etc) and all of them caused irritation. The PC one is gentle, rich, but not greasy.

Oh, one more thing. The TJ sunscreen. Is that the Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen dupe? Unseen Sunscreen really irritated my skin after starting tret. I switched to EltaMD.

Yes, it is, but it doesn’t irritate my skin.

hydro gel moisturizer burns and has been burning well before I used Tretinoin or even a vitamin C serum. I’ve tried Clinique and neutrogena

[Anonymous]

I like Dermalogica Skin Smoothing Cream (heavier) or Active Moist (lighter).