I have pretty sensitive skin. My skin is like that girl that cries whenever you say "Hi, did you get up to anything exciting this past weekend?" because she thinks you're saying she doesn't have a life.
She doesn't, but that's not the point.
Even using the products labelled "sensitive" or "for sensitive skin" seem to piss my skin off, and it's really annoying.
If I have water on my skin too often it throws a fit. The wrong body wash. The wrong moisturiser. The wrong laundry detergent. Don't even get me started on outside.
My skin is a real pain. One tiny wrong move and I have any combination of oily, dry, flaky, hot, red, itchy, breakouts. In some ways it's really hard to keep my skin in a good place, but generally it's pretty easy.... until something screws it up and I have to rebalance it again!
I'm not the type of girl that does 3 step cleansing. I don't wash my face everyday with any kind of soap. Part of it is laziness, but part of it is that everything I've tried seems to make things worse. So I just dab some water on my face whenever I've finished washing my hands, and every couple of days I use a cleansing wipe and/or an organic scrub (I don't really care about organic, but it was the only thing in the shop that was ALS/SLS free).
Which brings me to my first product!
Beauty Formulas Gentle Soft Apricot Cleansing Facial Wipes
I found these in a shop called Postie Plus, though I'm not sure where else they could be. I usually use Dove wipes, but I was looking for something a bit more gentle than the Dove ones.
They are $6 for a pack of 30 which I thought wasn't too bad.
They don't have a strong scent which is good for me as products that have too much fragrance can cause irritation. These wipes leave my skin feeling cool and refreshed and clean.
They had other variations like cool cucumber and such, but I liked the idea of apricot more. They have some apricot kernel and flower extracts which I think is nice.
Garnier Body Intensive 7 Days Rich Repairing Cream with L-Bifidus*
*Lysate of Bifidus
We get told that if we can't pronounce an ingredient on the list, we probably shouldn't buy the product. That's not much help for an English nut like me, but I'll honestly say I don't know what half of the things listed on this product are.
About a week ago I went swimming. I don't usually go swimming, I don't actually like being in a body of water, I like showers. Even if I had a bath I wouldn't use it. I went to the pool for water therapy.
The problem is, I'm allergic to chlorine. I applied some recommended cream as advised and hoped for the best.
Looking back on it now, it was a bit silly. I hadn't been in a chlorine pool in many years, and being away from it so long wouldn't help my skin when I went back in it! But ah well, hindsight huh.
So anyway I have been battling with my skin for a week now, trying to get it under control. I had massive welts and my skin felt like it was on fire. It looked like I was sunburnt and it felt like it too! Hot itchy painful. It was terrible, and I am still having problems with it.
I decided to look for a moisturiser in the effort to repair the awful damage I'd done, but I'm not loaded so I wanted something cheap.
This Garnier cream appeared to fit closest to what I was after without costing a hand, so I went with it.
It cost about $7 for a 300ml pot. You don't need much, and the soft skin feeling lasts for a long time which is nice.
The only thing I don't like about it is the same thing I don't like about most Garnier products. Their strong grapeseed oil smell. It is strong in a lot of their products, and this one is no exception. It would be nice to have a fruity scent like mango or something with this product, though I did like that it didn't smell like most products with shea butter in it do. From what I can garner from the ingredients it has shea butter, olive fruit oil, and honey amoung other things.
Yes To Carrots Lip Butter -Mint with Vitamin E
I have yet to try much of the "Yes To" range, but I am already in love with it. Unfortunately their products are usually expensive (though I'm sure they'd be worth it) so I cannot indulge in them as I'd like to!
This lip balm was on special, so I went for it. I love mint lip balm, but in the past have only been able to find a decent one in a pot -which I don't like so much.
Yes To Carrots lip butter boasts that it's a "99% natural product" and has certified organic ingredients.
It is petroleum, SLS, and paraben free and manufactured in America.
It lists coconut oil, olive fruit oil, beeswax, sunflower seed oil, peppermint oil, shea butter, vitamin E, orange peel extract, melon seed extract, pumpkin seed extract, and carrot root extract.
I really love this lip balm. I probably don't hydrate myself enough and I often have dry lips. I usually stick to a lip smackers balm that works, but sometimes they just don't as much.
The peppermint in this really comes through and gives that cool tingly feeling that comes with a good mint product. Only a little bit is needed, and it feels very nice, almost like the balm is just melting onto your lips!
With one application my lips are still feeling nice and soft 24hrs later, so I would definitely recommend this if dry lips is a problem for you.
The other flavours I saw were melon and berry. Definitely worth it!
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