General Chat

Cheap v Expensive.

I've been told that Nivea cream is just as good as all the expensive creams on the market. Is this true do you think, and which one do you use?

I don't use any face cream but I read on the quirky news the other day that a face cream from Aldi that costs £1.89 a pot has been voted as a top one......they have run out of them as thousands of pots have been snapped up..
Amanda

Do you mean moisturiser? I'm allergic to lanolin - which is in almost every moisturiser - especially the 'simple' ones - so I use hemp stuff by Body shop. Its not too expensive either. It costs about £8 and lasts 6 months.

maggie

I read that Aldi's cream for £1.99 is one of the best on the market! Better than the Boots wonder cream, apparently. BC XX

Clogs up my beard LOL

Clogs up mine too Brian....hence the reason I don't use the stuff.......LOL

I'm of the age now were I need polyfilla. I'm sat here lathered in face cream, my eyelashes are sticking together I've got that much on!

LOL dozza's mum - they still sell pan stick I think!!

I have always had deep 'laughter lines' around my eyes - even from childhood (cos i'm a cheerful so and so ) - so was slightly taken aback when last year, my 77 year old mum commented on my 'crows feet' - I pointed out they were laughter lines. My daughter piped up,Nothing's THAT funny!!!

Fortunately for her she's too old for infanticide.

maggie

I have been using the aldi day and night cream for the past 2 years usually i have problems with face cream makes me itch and makes my eyes water but no problems with this
dont think its made my wrinkles dissapear would need a shed load of pollyfilla for that but skin is nice and soft
Love Jackie

Blinking heck Maggie! I do feel old now you've mentioned pan sticks. I do 'vaguely' remember them.

Pan sticks were great - you could 'draw' them on your face and, once they 'set' you looked fantastic - as long as you didn't move a muscle in your face LOL

omg pan stick people used to have a linwhere they forgot to blend it down their neck
I didnt i just remember seeing older people with it on lol
Love Jackie

I only wore it once - aged 15 - and ended up with a peeling face - that's when I realised I was allergic to a lot of make up products -
that and when I woke up with my weeping eczma on my neck!!!(allergy to a cleanser)


maggie

my daughter used to be an avon rep and she would give me samples of make up but i couldnt wear it it used to make me red and blotchy and make me itch
very sensitive soul me lol
Love Jackie

I have always used as far as i can remember Johnsons baby soap and moisturiser. Annie

I use Aldi's day and night cream ever since someone
on here said about it, i was using boots one
about £18 but now only use Aldi's
Hazelx

I don´t use anything that may have been tested on animals for a start and don´t trust ANYTHING that is on sale in shops. I buy a big tub of "pure" base cream (no yucky chemicals stuff in it either) and add my own wheatgerm oil and extra vitamin E as a preservative and various essential oils that take my fancy. It is possible by using different oils to create a cream for greasy, "normal" or dry skin. Also antibacterial oils can be added for acne skin. There´s lots of advice on line how to do this. xx

Hi Daisy,
Would this 'pure' base cream be aqueous cream?
I use it as it is, as a face cleanser, being very allergic to lots of things.

maggie

My Nan used Oil of Ulay all her life and had wonderful skin - I dont think it it used to be as expensive as it is now - but I never got on with it.

I use clinique dramatically different moisturiser and have done for about 8 years - is that how long its been out?

It is expensive - but not in the long run as a bottle lasts me just under a year. It dosent leave a shine or my skin feeling heavy and in late 30's and a smoker I have yet to have noticable wrinkles.

But I think at the end of the day its what suits your skin best and how you feel about it - rather than the price.

I dont use cleanser or soap - I wash my face morning and night with a Teatree and whitchazel face foam (in a dispenser that costs about £4.00 and only use 2 a year) the combination of that rather inexpensive face soap and expensive moisturiser work well for me.

Your next to last sentence Maddie - sooo tru - what suits your skin best,
I used Oil of Ulay for years - then developed an allergy. It was lovely stuff. *sigh*

maggie