Anti-ageing creams

Aldi have a good range of skin care creams at affordable prices.

I've been using Aldi or Lidl serum and facecream for several years now, and the results seem as good as Boots protect and perfect (or whatever the one for older skin was). I too found the Boots one too expensive. I do find that by using serum then cream, I get a better result.

I just use lots of moisteriser, in my case organic because of my skin allergies.

I always use Aldi's serum and it seems to work as well as anything. For a youthful glow you can get good results using Tesco's Face Lift by Barbara Daley under your normal foundation.

Before I was married (and could afford it!) I used to use Helena Rubinstein's face creams and I remember her saying that what mattered was using them regularly. It was much better to use a cheap cream every day rather than use something sparingly because you couldn't really afford it.

Thank you everyone - Aldi/Tesco, here i come!

I was given prescribed a huge pump action bottle of dermatological emollient cream by the GP when I had a skin rash a while ago, when the pharmacist handed it to me, I exclaimed "Blimey that will last me for the rest of my life!" Anyway, waste not want not, the skin condition I was prescribed it for has long since gone but it works wonders as a face cream . Was completely OTT though, no wonder the NHS is in financial straits.

There's a very good American skincare expert (can't remember the name!) who says skin is skin and if it works on one part of your body it'll work on the rest of it.

I wonder if your skin cream is the same as the only one that works for me, Grannyknot? Diprobase? I use it day and night on my face and I think it's as good as anything!

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I have to agree with Ashley - I had been taking vitamin C tablets every day for donkey's years and had an excellent skin. Then with my son going away and my morning routine being changed, I no longer bothered. Despite using all the same serums and creams, all of a sudden I have wrinkles, as if overnight. Vitamin C is good for skin as well as colds - I have had more of those this winter too. So it's back on the tablets for me, and I had better try out that serum too.

I had been using Liz Earl products for a long time but last year on GN I learned about Lidl cream/serum and have used it ever since with excellent results and more money in my pocket,I have also been using Nivea Primer under foundation and find it gives a really smooth finish,it can be worn without foundation if you have a day in doors the skin feels so soft.When we where small mum used to load us up on VitC by way of fresh oranges every day which she blended we would have to drink it every morning before we went to school but now I rely on tablets and am lucky not to have been bothered by a cold for quite sometime.

Grannyknot is this the one you use? (comes in a bigger pump bottle from the chemist) I find it the best thing available for my bit of leg excema.

I have heard that these products are very good I sent for some and got some free samples as well. (haven't actually started them yet)

You can also get it in Marks and Sparks, as I saw after I had sent away.

A good cream should last 10 months, so sometimes the extra cost can be justified. It depends what you want in a cream.

If you don't mind about packaging and fragrance, try baby products! You can use baby sun cream as a day cream - and anything with milk protein in is pretty fab. Beauty trade people secretly apply a thin layer of sudocream on their faces at night once or twice a week. It's great!

You can use any cream on your face which suits your skin, use enough and spend 2 minutes massaging it carefully on to your face - the massage is half the benefit. Use gentle. stroking movements away from your heart, lifting and smoothing wrinkles and don't drag at delicate skin. The massage stimulates the circulation and that is what benefits.

The best natural products for mature skin are rose, pomegranate and honey IMHO. I like the Dr Organic range at Holland and Barratt. I think the royal jelly eye cream is good too - it gives me nearly as good a result as a cream 7x the price!

Buy a facial oil as well and put a little of that on over the top of your moisturiser - the oil will seal in the moisturiser. Facial oils feed your skin and don't make your skin greasy. You can pierce a food supplement oil capsule and squeeze that on to your face - just don't use fish oil LOL

Drinking more filtered tap water than you want will also make a big difference to your skin. It's got to be water, not herbal drinks or squash - no I don't know what miraculous properties water has, but I can drink pints of other drinks without any benefit, but once I made the effort to drink at least a pint and a half of filtered water, I could see the difference - and the backs of my hands were less wrinkled and dehydrated as well! It does have to be filtered though, I tried unfiltered drinking tap water and my knees swelled up!

Finally, remember that you need to encourage your skin to shed the dead cells - you can buy muslin flannels in Boots which are about the right texture. You can make a diy face scrub using porridge oats - not jumbo oats, moistened with any food product such as oil or cream. Exfoliate at night not in the morning and don't use a scrub more than 3 times a week.

I'm glad you explained about the oil on top of the moisturiser - I never could work that one out so used them alternately. I use nice moisturisers, but always use almond oil. It seems to work well for me.

blimey mygrannycanfly bit different to my soap and water and a quick whip around with some E45 occasionally! I really ought to make more of an effort, probably why I have got bags etc.

Exactly Whitewave

I use baby wipes for cleansing, whatever (cheap)cream was on special offer I happened to fancy when last in a Boots.

A touch of tinted moisturiser in the morning and I'm ready to take on the world (or at least my small part of the world)!

Lots of moisteriser, any moisteriser, cheapest quite satisfactory then massage it into your face for several minutes. Its the massage that matters.

JBR, only just got back to this thread. No it's not that exact one, but it is an 'emollient cream' so it is similar.

Shall we get together and compare our wrinkly necks?Count to three and then whip our scarves aside!

Oooh! can I join in too please rosesarered

Are we like trees, the number of rings of wrinkles show how old you are?

There's a cream called ialuset which my doctor prescribed for healing a leg wound. I looked it up and it's also supposed to be marvellous for getting rid of wrinkles.
So worth trying, although maybe you need a prescription.
I use Nivea.

Yes Flower you can join in; you can all join in, and we shall link arms and go forth proclaiming 'They are OUR wrinkles and we are proud of them!We have EARNED these wrinkles.'