winter skin savers

If you have a tendency to have dry skin, like me, or even worse, if like me you're also prone to eczema - especially during the winter months, I have a few products I want to sing the praises of!

1.) Morrisons Shower Scrub - £1 - I use a general scrub in winter time, something that will do what it says on the tin, but not be stupid expensive. This stuff is amazing, smells great and gets rid of nasty dead skin cells etc. 

2.) E45 Lotion - £2-£4 (roughly) - 200ml - This stuff is essential to the eczema prone! I tend to get in on the inner elbows, back of my knees and hips, I guess the creases of clothing really irritates it during the winter! - This shit is essential. 

3.) Morrisons Cocoa Body Butter - £3 (roughly) - 200ml - This smells great, they have different scents too. Like almond, and aloe vera I believe - But I always go for the cocoa. It smells gorgeous, like I said, soaks in well and most importantly - keeps my skin all smooth and dare I say sassy? Does anyone say sassy anymore... I have used other cocoa body butters, and to be fair, they all offer the same thing - I do prefer a mango scented one during summer - from superdrug, but it was wrongly priced - and it put me off buying it again.

4.) E45 Hand Cream - £3 (roughly) - 50ml - Essential. Handbag. Item.

5.) Norwegian Formula Nourishing Foot Cream - £3-£5 (roughly) - Keep your feet pretty with this stuff. I swear with a little love and attention you'll save your feet later on in life!

6.) Bio-Oil - £5+ - 60ml - I mentioned before about bio-oil in two posts. I'll be honest, I know some people use it on their face and have great results - but in the end for me it just wasn't right, it made me break out hideously. However, I use it on common 'problem' areas - and it's working splendidly well! 

7.) Simple Replenishing Rich Moisturiser - £2+ - 125ml - I've used this stuff for years! I love Simple wet-wipes too, for removing make-up! I switch to the light version when I'm on holiday, or if it's especially hot in England. It's cheap for a face cream and it's a no-nonsense-does-its-job-moisturiser!

Peace!

part two - bio oil review

I've been using Bio-Oil now for about ten days or so now, so let me tell you how I've been getting on...

I mentioned in the original post here, that during winter I have especially dry skin and I can be prone to eczema, especially on the backs of my knees, for some reason. I digress. 

Using this on my face at night time has proven, pretty useless - it made my skin come up with a few spots. It was far too 'greasy' for my face, although it is one of the oils I have come across that is actually surprisingly not that greasy... I know! I'm losing you, but hang on!

I've been using it after a shower of a night time (or morning, depending when it happens, of course) and I have seen an improvement with my skin - as much as I suspected.

So for me, Bio-Oil is definitely an amazing product, but for my skin type (sensitive, dry) shouldn't be used on my face, because of break-outs and blemishes.

So give it a go, and I hope you have slightly better luck than me. 

bio oil

I bought some of this amazing stuff the other day. Bio-Oil has been around for a while now, people always ranting and raving about it to me --- and up until now I never thought to try it myself.

Oh how I regret this, folks.

I've only been using it for a week, so I can't really tell you what it's like - I want to use it for a few months first...

What I can say is this, it's amazing after a shower - you don't need to put a lot on, which means although it's not cheap (nor expensive, really) it's really worth the money!

I tend to have normal/dry skin, especially in winter time - so using this as an intensive moisturizer at night time is seriously helping.  

I'll see how it goes in about 3 weeks time. 

Peace.

Oh, and I'm doing this review off my own back. No-one is paying me for it, and I did not receive this product for free in order to review it.

Although that would of been cool. ;)