Face Creams

That's me! Face cream subversive

You rebel you TerriBull ?

I do buy day and night cream, I find them pretty interchangeable, I sometimes use day for night and vice versa.

I'm like you PECS I also buy whatever's on offer, usually Olay or something like that. I've been told I don't have lines, I don't think I do, maybe that's down to Latin genes I don't know. There isn't anyone particularly fair skinned and freckled in my family in spite of also having some Irish on my mother's side. Anyway I don't worry about it because there's an inevitability about aging. I certainly wouldn't buy expensive preparations like Creme de La Mer or the like, a friend of mine di that and I couldn't see any difference

Just look at the ingredients on any moisturiser/face cream. All are mostly 'aqua' ie water! I buy whatever is on offer when I want one and do not think I have either noticed sudden improvement/deterioration whether it was Nivea or something usually more expensive!

I’ve never heard of marionette lines, but googled and yes, I do have them. I am almost 79, so can’t expect to look like a girl. I use Nivea Soft, which makes my skin feel comfortable.

I do think a lot of people obsess too much about looking young. It really doesn’t matter, and the ones who fuss the most, and do the most, usually look the worst in my experience.

Suspect you have good genes paddyann. I

If only we knew about sun protection when we were young.
A day moisturiser should contain SPF 15/30 night moisturiser does not.

I agree that all these skin care products are a waste of money. All moisturisers do is to put a layer of oil on the surface to help prevent moisture loss from within. So all you need do is to find one that you like the feel of. Maybe some of the ingredients also act as a skin tightener to a small extent, but it is only when the product is on, it doesn't have a lasting effect.

I use Day moisturizer for night as well as I don't like the feeling of something "thick" sitting on my skin and sticking to the pillow.
I am of the school that as long as you moisturize, anything will do.
I do use expensive products and sometimes Aldi stuff and can't see any difference.
My "go to" which I have used since my teens and still seems to suit me, is, Oil of Olay, the ordinary cheap lotion stuff.
As long as you moisturize twice a day, religiously, then that is the main thing.

How do you know your skin wouldn’t be great without the products, paddyann? Perhaps you’re just lucky. I have been.

Oops I'm out of step here .I use a good skin regime and always have ,I have pale sensitive skin that used to have freckles and burned badly even with sunscreen on.I use Ellemis products and my skin is great .
I have no wrinkles around my eyes or on my forehead and the only wrinkles I do have are a pair of newly emerged marionnette lines after I lost just under 3 stone. I'll do what I can to get rid of these as they make me look really sad and I'm not!

My former GP specialised in dermatology, and always said that your skin was designed to keep stuff OUT , and all that was necessary was to replace moisture, and any moisturiser would do.

I completely agree, Anna. Always astonished at the money people spend on these things.

If the night cream contains retinal then it is said to work better in the absence of daylight.

Personally they’re all a big con and your skin condition depends on your genes, how much you exposed it to strong sun and your diet.

Any halfway decent moisturer will do what needs to be done (soften) and it doesn’t matter night or day IMO.

Day creams are lighter and are absorbed quicker . Night ones are gooey and mess the pillow