Mature skin- please recommend a moisturizer

[Anonymous]

About six months ago I started using a very basic tallow based skin cream for my face and body and added a little castor oil in the evenings. My skin feels amazing and recently some of my college friends asked if I had any work done, LOL. Nope, just tallow, sun and improved diet.

[Anonymous]

I use tret & vitamin c and I really, really like the Weleda Baby Face moisturizer. It's inexpensive, isn't slimy/oily and doesn't irritate my skin.

And it's not expensive.

https://www.amazon.com/Weleda-Nourishing-Face-Cream-Ounce/dp/B000QURQQU/ref=asc_df_B000QURQQU/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693286505166&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12201020646625479733&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007531&hvtargid=pla-432220315136&psc=1&mcid=ac85e0fec20331379dc902d09eab3ae8&gad_source=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About six months ago I started using a very basic tallow based skin cream for my face and body and added a little castor oil in the evenings. My skin feels amazing and recently some of my college friends asked if I had any work done, LOL. Nope, just tallow, sun and improved diet.

Seriously -- you are recommending "sun" for mature skin?

Do not listen to this person. USE SPF. Skip the "tallow" and "castor oil" and UV light.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

You should be using the Vitamin C in the morning - not in combo with the Tretinoin at night. Ask your dermatologist to confirm.

https://www.prevention.com/beauty/skin-care/a43643192/can-you-use-retinol-and-vitamin-c-together/

[Anonymous]

That is too much product I think - no need for evening Vitamin C and that is a lot of times a week - your skin should be getting used to the retinol. Scale back the number of times a week and build back as your skin becomes less sensitive.

I love love Elta MD sunscreen/moisturizer in mornings. I sometimes use the Cerave AM sunscreen/moisturizer if I need something thicker.

[Anonymous]

Dermalogica Intensive Moisture Balance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Same exact routine, except I also use it on trentinoin nights (I actually sandwich with it on trentinoin nights)- curious what moisturizer you use on your tretinoin night?

[Anonymous]

Deiux - the cream in a tube - is perfection for the type of skin you describe. It's changed my skin. I also use the serum Holy grail forever.

[Anonymous]

I have been using rose hip oil lately and I’m loving it. So is my skin. I use it around my eyes at night so my tret doesn’t get to my sensitive skin. And I use it in the mornings too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

All those hydro gels burn like fire! I think they’re just not for eve fry one.

Also, Vitamin C should be in the morning with the CE ferulic serum.

After my serums, I mix a few drops of The Ordinary’s squalene with the most basic Cetaphil in the mornings (https://a.co/d/9kjlxq6). Then follow with Trader Joe’s supergoop dupe SPF. It’s been a great combo for me.

[Anonymous]

Vanicream

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

All those hydro gels burn like fire! I think they’re just not for eve fry one.

Also, Vitamin C should be in the morning with the CE ferulic serum.

After my serums, I mix a few drops of The Ordinary’s squalene with the most basic Cetaphil in the mornings (https://a.co/d/9kjlxq6). Then follow with Trader Joe’s supergoop dupe SPF. It’s been a great combo for me.

It’s probably the niacinamide

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

All those hydro gels burn like fire! I think they’re just not for eve fry one.

Also, Vitamin C should be in the morning with the CE ferulic serum.

After my serums, I mix a few drops of The Ordinary’s squalene with the most basic Cetaphil in the mornings (https://a.co/d/9kjlxq6). Then follow with Trader Joe’s supergoop dupe SPF. It’s been a great combo for me.

CE ferulic IS a vitamin C serum, and a super potent one at that. You do not need an additional vitamin C serum and certainly not at night with tret. That is way too much

[Anonymous]

My derm is in her 50s and told me she has used oil of olay her entire adult life.

Ive used eurcerin redness relief for 20 years. Love it, obviously

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
That is too much product I think - no need for evening Vitamin C and that is a lot of times a week - your skin should be getting used to the retinol. Scale back the number of times a week and build back as your skin becomes less sensitive.

I love love Elta MD sunscreen/moisturizer in mornings. I sometimes use the Cerave AM sunscreen/moisturizer if I need something thicker.

Which Elta MD do you use?