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How do YOU wash your face?

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  • #32
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 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 I 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 after shave 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.

    Mother of jaysus! What happened to a good aul bar of soap!


  • #33
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    ok, let's have an end to the recommendations for or against prescription medication please, as noone here is qualified to make that call.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 295 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Don't use anything fancy. I tried using all the different scrubs/ gels etc and my skin got worse, very bad at one point. Just stop, buy dettol anti-bacterial soap (€2) and use it once a day. when you wash your face too much it dries out and overcompensates by producing too much grease (sebum)..... this is a never ending cycle, spot causing more spots.

    Go easy on your skin for a few weeks and let it find a balance/heal and you'll begin to see big improvements. You skin will look after itself as long as you don't irritate it.

    Get a bar of dettol soap anyway! moisturize if your skin is dry.

    Eventually cut out the soap, maybe using it only a couple times a week, just wash your face with warm water in the shower, your skin will look after itself!

    Hope this helps, ditch the fancy crap!


  • #35
    Caiseoipe19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭Caiseoipe19


    Anyway, nowadays it's just a case of clear water and a bit of a scrub with a facecloth morning and night for me! :)


  • #36
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Jaysus, an awful lot of potions which are nothing more than expensive placebos mentioned in this thread. All you need to so is wash your face with a wet face cloth, once, maybe twice a day. If our skin gets dry/cracked apply diprobase emollient or similar (such as silcocks base).

    You can thank me later for the fortune you've saved.


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  • #37
    Festy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    I use Avene gentle purifying scrub twice a week I find it excellent,it's very good for sensitive skin.Bit pricey though,around 20 euro but it should last you at least 2 months.Money well spent imo.


  • #38
    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,505 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 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 I 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 after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older.
    Then moisturiser, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.

    that is all.


  • #39
    ncmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭ncmc


    OP, I’m a female, so not sure if I’m allowed post in this thread :D, but I do suffer from mild adult acne so I know how you feel. Mine isn’t really bad enough to warrant medication, but a few times a month I will get really red sore spots that often leave a mark that can take months or years to fade. So I really can empathise with anyone who suffers from spots.

    I have used all the Clearasil/Clean & Clear products and also used the stronger stuff like Benzoyle Peroxide cream and I really don’t think they help. I think they just strip the natural oil out of your skin, and encourage your skin to go into overdrive producing more sebum so in the long term I think they make the skin worse. They also can leave your skin very raw and dry, so all in all, not a great idea.

    2 months ago, I received a gift of La Roche Posay Toleraine cleanser and Hydrophase intense moisturiser. I started using it and the results were INSTANT! I have hardly had a spot in two months (bar the odd white head which I don’t mind so much) I haven’t had one painful, red spot and trust me, that’s a record for me.

    I use it morning and night in the following way: I apply the cleanser before I get in the shower and use a hot, clean facecloth to remove it. I think the heat from the cloth also helps cleanse the skin. I don’t use any toner or harsh products, just a small amount of the moisturiser. In the evening, I use a facewipe to remove make up before doing the same routine as morning. I think it’s important to wash your face at night as well as morning, as you’re washing off all the grime of the day.

    I can’t tell you what a difference La Roche Posay has made to me, I actually have the courage to go without make up occasionally now. I think a combination of the mild product and the heat from the cloth has really cleared up my skin. If I were you OP, I would ditch the very harsh products and try something more natural. I would definitely recommend La Roche Posay to anyone and the great thing is, it’s not madly expensive.

    Best of luck OP.


  • #40
    dastardly00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,620 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    run_Forrest_run wrote: »
    In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 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 I 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 after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older.
    Then moisturiser, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.

    that is all.

    182.jpg

    MagicMarker already posted the American Psycho quote ;)


  • #41
    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,505 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    dastardly00 wrote: »
    MagicMarker already posted the American Psycho quote ;)

    d'oh is right! I thought I scanned all previous posts but obviously not..mea culpa :o


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  • #42
    duke916
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭duke916


    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    Jaysus, an awful lot of potions which are nothing more than expensive placebos mentioned in this thread. All you need to so is wash your face with a wet face cloth, once, maybe twice a day. If our skin gets dry/cracked apply diprobase emollient or similar (such as silcocks base).

    You can thank me later for the fortune you've saved.

    wrong. i suffer from eczema since i was a child. was always told by doctors NEVER to use silcocks base on the face, but only the body as it contains high amount of parfin. A typical 'men's' moisturiser is fine, but i agree that there is way too many products on the market claiming to do this and that with ill effect.


  • #43
    mitosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭mitosis


    Two hands full of clean cold water. No spots, blemishes, rashes, etc. Probably my age :)

    I am reminded

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8CGtuR9FnY


  • #44
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    Wrap your pillow in a clean towel at night. Small handtowels. Five for a tenner in duffys Talbot st. Worked wonders for me as a teenager.


  • #45
    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,505 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    I wash my face with an ex foliating scrub from the Body Shop but I do this mainly because it's part of my shaving routine.
    I also use a Nivea for Men moisturiser on the face for after shaving and generally every day even if I don't shave.

    On the Roaccutane thing, when I was a teenager I was on it and I must say it really sorted out my acne. Now again, my acne wasn't the odd pimple which is why I ended up going to a dermatologist for the treatment and the main reason for going on the drug was to avoid potential scarring from the acne in later life.

    I also heard the horror stories about the drug but for me apart from the odd nose bleed and dry pores I was grand. I had the occasional mood swing, but hey, as I said, I was a teenager.


  • #46
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    I use the shower gell, when the waters hot open up my pours. then scrub my face with face wash and then with cold water...
    Closes up my pours...


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