In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water activated gel cleanser. Then a honey almond body scrub. And on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
moisturizer everywhere, every single day
between that and estrogen i have never been softer :stalin-feels-good:
Very simple. I wash my face and beard every time I take a shower (typically every other day unless I'm really sweating it up). Before bed, I use a moisturizer with hyaluronic acid. I often forget to do this. In the morning, I put on an SPF 15 moisturizer.
I've had awful acne my whole life so I've gone through a million different treatments, but honestly I've had success recently just giving my face a thorough wash with warm water in the morning and evening. No products. Or maybe I've just finally outgrown it at (age way too old to be outgrowing acne lol)
Buy some extra pillow cases and put a fresh one on every night, it's a game changer
Trim my beard with a beard trimmer, suffer a terrible breakout, nuke it with clean and clear continuous control (the only thing I’ve found that works, it will probably give me cancer), have skin chill out over the next few days until my beard gets too long. We also use this Japanese cream called senka perfect whip which works really well.
AM: wash with cerave gentle cleanser and moisturize with cetaphil
PM: wash with cerave foaming cleanser and moisturize again with Cetaphil and sometimes with a drop of squalene if I need it
Once a week I do a clay mask that I mix with diluted herbal vinegar to neutralize it a little. Also do "dermaplanning" once a week with eyebrow razors
I need to add sunscreen though
Since you already use CeraVe, I highly recommend their AM daily face moisturizer, it has SPF 15 and it’s super nice
That's the one I use :crush:
I think it'd be good get add a sunscreen on top of the spf in the moisturizer though idk
AM: soap & shampoo as needed > wet face in shower > apply Cerave cleanser with salycilic acid > rinse > shave with grain with a cooling cream > rinse with cold water (apply cream and shave again but across grain if I want a closer shave, rinse with cold water) > {exit shower} > apply aftershave > {wait 5 min} > apply moisturiser with SPF 15 > apply different moisturiser to arms & legs
PM: wash face with lukewarm water > apply exfoliator with salycilic acid | Also replace my pillow case daily
this all helps my acne but doesn't do shit against the blackheads on my nose.
the only thing I do is wash my face 2x twice a day (morning + night) using aloe. Honestly it seems to work, I seem to be holding up pretty well as I get older.
I also use post-shave balm after I shave, which is like once a week if I'm lucky, usually less, and wash my sheets 1x/week to keep them clean. Neither of which is skincare per se but they definitely help my skin
wash my face using aloe
hows that work? do you rinse after or leave it?
:thonk: i use it as moisturiser so this is weird for me to hear lol. aloe really can do anything :meow-cactus:
idk my old coworker pre-covid who was into skincare told me that that was what she did. I knew nothing about skincare so I started doing it bc I figured putting aloe on my face can't hurt. Then I lost my health insurance so no longer could get this acne cream I was using but I kept using the aloe and I didn't really have bad acne flareups with this method, so I kept doing it and haven't gone back to using acne cream
