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⌈ Secret Post #4799 ⌋

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Re: Advice/Questions

[(Anonymous)]

For nighttime I use CeraVe PM facial moisturizer. It's not quite as heavy as I'd like for my dry skin, but it has a good ingredients list and it's inexpensive compared to most other well-formulated moisturizers.

For a daytime moisturizer (a moisturizer with sunscreen)...ugh, good luck.

I really love Clinique's Pep-Start Daily UV Protector, but fucking Clinique discontinued it in my country. It might still be available in the US though.

Honestly, I have never been able to find a moisturizer with sunscreen that doesn't suck in one way or another. The most common problems are that they're way too expensive, and/or the texture feels like smearing glue on your face, and/or they pill and ball up when you try to apply makeup over top of them.

If you have no issue with the whole paste texture, CeraVe also makes a daytime moisturizer that is well-formulated and excellently priced. Personally, I find the texture unbearable and it tends to ball up under my foundation, but everybody's different, it might work better for you.

Re: Advice/Questions

[(Anonymous)]

Another tip: If you have a moisturizer you like, but you wish it was a little more intensely moisturizing, you can pick up a face oil from The Ordinary and mix a couple of drops into your moisturizer to beef it up a little. All the facial oils at The Ordinary are very reasonably priced (under $10).

However, DON'T do this if your moisturizer is also your SPF, because adding the oil is likely to reduce the efficacy of the SPF.

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Or you can add a drop or two of plain glycerin, I've found it to cause less issues than adding oil (certain formulas/ingredients really don't play well with oil).

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I've never had a problem using oils that are common for use on the face (argan, rosehip seed, marula, etc.), but I don't mix them into the bottle of moisturizer. I mix a couple of drops with a pump of moisturizer before applying it.

I prefer it to glycerin because oil has greater potential benefit to the skin. But if you have sensitive skin and oil has been known to cause problems for you, I can see glycerin being a good substitute.

Re: Advice/Questions

[(Anonymous)]

CeraVe sounds like something I'd like to try.

not OP

Re: Advice/Questions

[(Anonymous)]

I definitely recommend it. It's very much a cult classic brand in the skincare community. The day and night moisturizers especially are known for being full of good ingredients at a drugstore price - and none of this 30ml tube nonsense. The serum is kind of expensive, and is a small size, IIRC. But the moisturizer is...90ml I think? And probably around $10 - $12 US?

They won't feel better on your skin than plenty of the other drugstore options. But the ingredients list is superior to most drugstore options. I'm fairly into skincare, and one annoying truth of skincare is that what feels best when applied isn't always what's actually treating your skin right and "feeding" it the ingredients it's going to benefit from over time. (Obviously if a product that isn't supposed to sting stings, or gives you a rash or breaks you out, that's bad. But a product that feels really great when you put it on isn't necessarily doing more for your skin than a product that just feels fine when you put it on.)