Why don't you just throw your money down the drain instead? (Skincare in general)

Member Name: LouisaNott

Product:	Skincare in general
Date:	28/04/02 (69 review reads)
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I've never believed in expensive skincare products, and find it really silly to spend a small fortune on stuff when you really need not bother with all those creams and balms and scrubs etc. Don't get me wrong, I have a skincare routine, it's just far cheaper and easy...

*** For your face ***

For starters, bin the cleanser and toner and buy a bar of soap and a packet of granulated sugar. Yes, granulated sugar. Now, take said sugar, and put about a dessert-spoonful in your hands. Mix with some froth from the soap, and rub it into your face. This is best done in the shower as it can get a bit messy. The sugar exfoliates your skin much better than any £4-a-tube cleanser stuff.

Now, stuff expensive moisturisers. Use baby moisturiser which costs about £2 in Tescos for a huge bottle.

If you do have any spots, then you can use surgical spirit on them (60p a bottle), to reduce the redness, and then some tea-tree oil too. It disinfects and gets to work on spots.

The benefits of all this is to eliminate the amount of chemicals etc.

Oh, and drink lots of water, it's really important to make your skin look and feel great.

Here's a thought, from a book I was reading (Snake Oil: John Diamond)...if your poncy face cream really did allow water to penetrate into your skin, then surely we'd all dissolve in the next shower of rain?

Think about it, it's all rubbish. If you do have a real skin problem, then I really am not one to have an opinion, but my skin has its ups and downs, but using sugar, soap and various other things, my skin is generally fine.

Now...

*** For your body ***

I recommend getting a loofah or one of those plasticy bath ball type things. Anything that's fairly rough will do the job nicely. And.....you guessed it......soap. And baby moisturiser. You really don't need anything else. It may smell nice and poncy, but it's really une
ccessary.

I think everything I use for skincare costs me less than a fiver every 3 months. Can't complain really can you?

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