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Oh Mods of /r/SkincareAddiction, what are your skin care routines and fav products?(r/SkincareAddiction)
Hi! Okay let’s see hereee. Gather ’round, friends. I imagine this is going to get quite long.
My Skin: Oily t-zone, dryish cheeks and one weird dry half of my chin. I also deal with eczema on random parts, depending on what my body decides with be most annoying that particular time. Random things will make me break out, and basically if I don’t cleanse with mineral oil at night I break out. I rarely break out anymore, than goodness.
Morning routine!
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Cleanse with Cerave foaming if I feel I got greasy during the night, or Pond’s Original Cold Cream if I still want to cleanse my face but feel dry, OR just splash with water and a wash cloth.
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Apply Hada Labo Gokujyun Lotion as my serum. It’s called a “lotion” in the Asian skincare routine, but it really acts like a serum in a typical US routine. This is a hyaluronic acid serum that helps your skin retain moisture, and it gives my skin the moisture it needs to not be so oily.
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Apply either Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel which is pretty much every day except the driest days of winter, OR Cerave in the tub. Sometimes I mix a dab of the two together when I’m feeling cRaZyYy. I sometimes add a few drops of Passion Fruit Seed Oil.
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Apply Murad Oil-Control Mattifier, this stuff is sstttuuuppidd expensive at $40, and it has about 8 million ingredients that could upset your skin and you would never know which one it is, so I am often hesitant to suggest it for that reason. HOWEVER, nothing works as well for my oilies than this, and I always, always come back. HG, unfortunately.
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Apply either Clinique City Block SPF 40, Neutrogena Clear Face Liquid-Lotion Sunblock SPF 30 or Elta MD Clear SPF 46.
Night Routine!
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Cleanse with baby oil and a washcloth. Sometimes use Pond’s Cold Cream again, simply because it feels so nice. If I am planning on using an AHA, I will cleanse again with the Cerave Foaming Cleanser.
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Apply Alpha Hydrox Intensive Serum, 14% Glycolic Acid – AHA 1-3 times a week. Or use Stridex 2% Salicylic Acid Pads 2-4 times a week. Probably once a week, or every two weeks, I will use a Stridex pad and then the Alpha Hydrox. I wake up with the smoooooothest skin ever, but it makes me dry so I can only do it every now and then. Ever since I started using AHA and BHA, my blackheads and sebaceous filaments are almost completely gone.
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Use either the Hada Labo Serum again, or Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair, which I LOVE. It’s really expensive, but I really do love it.
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Moisturize with Cerave in the tub! I have a soft spot for Clinique Super Rescue Antioxidant Night Moisturizer but it’s expensive and I only buy it sometimes! Sometimes I slather my face in Passion Fruit Seed Oil just because.
Body!
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Cleanse with the regular Dove bar, or sometimes I do a weird broke-ass body oil cleanse with whatever body lotion I am trying to get rid of. I rub it into my skin and then wipe it off with a washcloth. Feels good, man.
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Cerave in the tub everywhere, twice a day if my eczema is acting up. Top with baby oil if bad. My eczema is either going to be okay with Cerave, or I need 3 months of oral steroids. There is no middle ground for us.
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I obsessively sunscreen the backs of my hands with whatever sunscreen I am trying to use up at the moment.
Things I do sometimes!
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Makeup Artist’s choice 40% Lactic Acid Peel
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Mario Badescu Silver Powder Mask
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Neem Seed Oil for spots treatment if I get a spot
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Hydrocolloid bandages if I have a zit that needs….drained. I don’t know how to say that in a less gross way. These only work if they have come to a head or you’ve popped it, but if you put them on overnight, you wake up and it is completely flat. They suck the liquid out without drying your skin out.
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I love raw shea butter for those really dry times, works anywhere! Use this during the driest times of winter.