Aveeno Eczema Therapy Moisturizing Cream

Ingredients: Active: Active Ingredients Colloidal Oatmeal. Inactive: Water, Glycerin, Distearyldimonium Chloride, Panthenol, Petrolatum, Isopropyl Palmitate, Cetyl Alcohol, Dimethicone, Avena Sativa Kernel Oil (Oat), Steareth 20, Avena Sativa Kernel Extract (Oat).

My skin was steadily getting worse and worse, despite every (supposedly) moisturizing skin care product that I smother it with. Finally, it got to the point when my whole face was completely red, felt like it's on fire, and so raw that I couldn't even splash water on my face without it screaming at me. Both my mother and I was in a panic, but it was midnight, so there was no way we could go to a doctor or anything.

In panic mode, we went to Target and got some skin irritation care, namely Aveeno (being the closest thing to organic that we can get our hands on at such short notice), and some hydrocortisone cream. I immediate put them on in layers on my throbbing, burning face, hoping I'm not going to make matter worse.

It helped. Tremendously. Overnight, my skin was less red, and feel so much better. I was hesitant of this result, because I got similar result with the Mizon Snail cream, so I kept applying it and crossing my fingers.

Three days later, my skin is doing great, better than it ever has for years!

Of course, as my skin heals, it was itchy, and shredding a lot of dead cells. My face kept being flaky, and I have to apply the Aveeno several times a day, but each day is better than the last; and finally, this evening, I did a gentle face towel exfoliation before hitting the shower. The result after is hydrated, plump, and UBER SOFT SKIN!! XD My skin has never felt or look this good before. Even patchy skin tone is getting even out! Whew, this is some powerful stuff! Of course, it might be the dimeticone in the ingredients list, but my skin is great!!!

Not a fan of the Distearyldimonium Chloride, Petrolatum, and the Dimethicone, but I'm glad this thing help save my skin!

Culprit # 2

So I got this guy at a local TJ Maxx, and thought it was a great find. It's made of silicon, and is battery operated (I bought it back in February, and the battery is still going strong today without needing to change yet). The indent in the middle is the power butter, and you can adjust to make it vibrate as you wash your face. I haven't have to adjust it, since it has the right amount of vibration from the start, and it feels good and soft on the skin. Plus, it made a crazy amount of foam (I've tried this with 3-4 different face wash, and it foams more than I've ever seen).

Since it felt good, and make my skin soft and give that clean but not squeaky feeling, I've been using it day and night for about about three or four weeks straight. No wonder my skin rebel on me. This is an exfoliate thing, even though it's very gentle; as skin care goes, frequent exfoliation is a no no. I guess my skin didn't protest any sooner was because this thing exfoliate, but very gentle on my skin. Though, it made my skin so soft! XD Well, this is a lesson well-learn, and I'm a little bit apprehended about using this again, since I found a better way to gently exfoliate your skin with a soapy face towel, and don't do it as often as I did before.

I don't want to let this guy go to waste, so maybe now and then I'll use it, but definitely only once a week thing, so the vibration encourages blood flow XD

I got one for myself, and another one for my mom, and I'm not sure if you could find it in your local TJ Maxx, but I definitely recommend this product if you can, forget Clarisonic, this thing would change your outlook on skin care product, and will be the only one you need XD Forget all those different brushes. Just one item for the rest of your life, simple, eh? ;)

This would make great gift to friends and family. I bought this for about $9.99, but the two I grabbed was the only two left. I tried going to different TJ Maxx store, but they don't have it. I search online, and the closest thing that look like it has a price tag of $169 (no thank you), the other types doesn't look like it, but has a better price, like $16.99. I hope you'll be able to find one :D

Before I found them and hoard them all xD

Update on Mizon Black Snail Cream

It's been almost a week, and I'm frustrated. A lot. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, or if Korean skin care routine is totally not for me. I know everyone's skin is different, but I only heard great things about Korean skin care products, I haven't seen one mention/review/blog that even said anything about Korean skin care not working for them. It's so weird O_O

At first, the snail cream helps moisturized my skin, but lately, it make my skin dried out in the morning, and the peeling and cracking skin has come back.

It's so tight, dry, and uncomfortable D:

I'm at a lost. What am I doing wrong? Why am I the only one the 10 steps routine not working for? @__@

It's not even winter anymore. It's already may, but Indiana's weather is pretty moist, with rain off and on, and I thought the moist air would help with my skin. It isn't. At all. I am at a lost what would help D:

I did more research, and found out that my dry skin is not just dry, it's dehydrated, according to Dermalogica, and it makes sense, as my face doesn't feel dry underneath, just on the surface. And gawd know my skin was oily enough to soak up napkins before it decided to throw a 4 months long tantrum.

I've also discovered that my kin had a problem with Woolite laundry detergents. My husband love the brand, and I love Dropps. Being in the military, the less you have, the easier it is when you move. Dropps was one of the things that started my conversion to the organic side, and it's easier to just toss a pack into the washer and be done with it rather that dealing with the messy liquid detergents (I'm uber lazy, the less I do, the better), so I had been using it for almost three years. Then I met my husband and he took over the laundry department.

The reaction took a long time to manifest, so I didn't think much of it, then my skin's quitting make me re-examined everything I was using, and the laundry detergent was one of the thing that created such a big fuss in my skin. I was at a point where my face was red as a tomato @____@ I've re-wash everything with my favorite detergent, and immediately my face stopped the redness overnight (who knew one of the culprit is my pillowcases washing?) This teaches me to stray from Dropps xD

Another culprit was the Vitamin E cream from Jason Naturals itself. Yeah, I gave it a great review, and it came back to bite me. My skin type was merely typical combo skin, after using this, it did moisturized my skin and make it better than the dry skin I had before, but it make my skin became dependent on oily products - to which I didn't realized until the time of my desperation (of last night and still). I had to dug up the half-used jar from the recycle bin and use it again (after cleaning the outside, of course). It helps my skin feels a little better, but it won't accept non-oil based products anymore. I'm pissed =/

Basically, short of changing my face to another one, I'm having to start back at square one, with even worse skin than I started. This is a lesson for my impatience @__@ What a shame, as I've bought a few more skin care products that I slathered on my face as an ineffective attempt at fixing it. I'm going to have to start at basic face wash, cetaphil-like moisturizer, and the unpetrolium jelly as needed. This is testing my patience xD I'm the type to jump all in, and this hinders me significantly. At least my pillowcase won't keep agitating my face anymore.