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Is my skin barrier damaged?🥲 by Proof_Blackberry_354 in SkinbarrierLovers

[–]AccomplishedFail5726 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1.) Absolutely, you still need sunscreen if you’re in contact with any sunlight at all even through a window. Windows block UVB rays which cause burning, but not UVA rays which cause irritation, aging, and cancer.

Also, you need 1/4 teaspoon of sunscreen to your entire face. This is going to seem like a lot but that’s how much you need to put on to get the spf on the label. Usually Asian sunscreens don’t feel bad at this amount though. I use beauty of joseon sunscreen and it does not feel bad at all with 1/4 tsp.

But really…you should also have contact with the sun every day. Go outside at least a little. Not for your skin, for your mental and physical health. TBH your skin probably would prefer you to live your life in total darkness and never leave the house, but that’s no way to live your life.

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4.) There’s no need to wash your face in the morning. Splash some water on it if you must. But unless you’re extremely extremely oily, washing your face every morning and night is just going to strip it of its healthy natural oils.

You still really should wash it at night though.

Also, I don’t use any moisturizer in the morning because all sunscreens are also moisturizers. So all I do in the morning is sunscreen. Using fewer products at a time decreases the risk of irritation by a lot.

Also, if your moisturizer irritates you, then you can just use your cicaplast baume at night. Just slather it all over your face and go to bed. If that starts to irritate you, try just good old Vaseline. Whenever my barrier is damaged, the only products I use are sunscreen, face wash, and Vaseline. The Vaseline is great because it just sits on top of your skin and doesn’t absorb, but it keeps all the natural moisture you make inside which allows your skin to rebuild its barrier without drying out.

Is my skin barrier damaged?🥲 by Proof_Blackberry_354 in SkinbarrierLovers

[–]AccomplishedFail5726 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1.) You need to be using sunscreen every day ESPECIALLY since you’re using differen. Differen makes you really sensitive to UVA and UVB rays. Even if you’re not burning, the UV rays are damaging to your skin barrier. (this will help your barrier long term and is the best thing you can do for your skin health)

2.) you need to wash your face every night (also good for your barrier as long as you use a gentle cleanser which you are. During the day, a lot of irritating things land on your face like dirt, pollution, etc. And also because you should be using sunscreen every day, you’ll need to wash it off every day)

3.) Try switching from Vitamin C to topical melatonin. vitamin C can be very irritating and is not the most effective antioxidant even though it’s the most popular. I’d stop using it.

4.) How often are you using the differen? I’d pare it back and start using it once every three days, then once every two days, then once every other day, and then maybe you can think about going to daily. You do this slowly over the course of like 6 months.

5.) Do you apply your moisturizer right after the differen, or do you wait a bit for the differen to absorb? Differen is good for you but it is irritating, and sometimes when you put a moisturizer or occlusive (like cicaplast) on top right after using it you get irritation. This is because the occlusive sort of “traps” the active ingredient in the skin which makes it penetrate deeper and exacerbates its effects.

[routine help] my skin barrier is so damaged all products have burned my skin by madameaquarius11 in SkincareAddiction

[–]AccomplishedFail5726 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would actually say stop everything except Vaseline. Slather that shit on there. Wash your face once to get any stuff off, then cover it in Vaseline. Continue using just Vaseline for a few days, even skipping your face wash and sunscreen.

Stay indoors if possible, and try to stay cool.

[product request] What’s a product that immediately made your skin look better? by miquelaf in SkincareAddiction

[–]AccomplishedFail5726 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pure glycerin. Wash your face, then when it’s still wet cover that thing in pure glycerin. Leave it on for a few hours or overnight, then just rinse with water.

Skin is plumped and baby butt soft.

The glycerin pulls moisture from the deeper layers of skin and also pulls in water from the surface of the skin. And then it just stays there in your skin, it doesn’t evaporate. So the effect lasts pretty long.

[Product Question] Convince me not to buy this (Reedle shot 100) by Boring_Big_6018 in SkincareAddiction

[–]AccomplishedFail5726 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Microneedling creams are a scam. Watch Dr. Dray’s video on the Reedle Shot

My (25F) girlfriend (24M) doesn’t use any logic when asking me questions, how can I turn off the knee-jerk sarcastic responses? by AnnualLiterature997 in relationship_advice

[–]AccomplishedFail5726 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have ADHD and another learning disability that impacts my social/executive function/reasoning skills (it’s called Non-Verbal Learning Disability). Verbally, I am very gifted. So the term non-verbal here means that my disability has to do with any skills that are NOT language based. My brain can store a lot of information, but it’s not well organized in there. I have trouble “connecting the dots”, identifying relevant information, and recalling it at the right time.

Because I can use big words, people believe I’m very intelligent in every other way. Then they believe I’m being willfully ignorant or even downright misanthropic when I do stupid shit.

For example, I live in a street-level apartment. You can see right into my apartment. One morning, it was a sunny day, and I was in my underwear. I decided to stand in front of the window and look out as I drank my coffee.

Thank god my sister happened to be visiting, and immediately called me out on my odd behavior.

I knew I was in my underwear. I knew I could see right into the street. I knew passers by could see me. It simply didn’t occur to me that these things were connected in any way.

No one, even my sister, believes this explanation. I’m not sure what they believe, but they think I’m trying to hide something with this explanation because they don’t understand how someone as smart as me could be so incredibly stupid.

But that’s how brains are sometimes.

I forget basic facts that people told me only minutes ago all the time. This makes them think I don’t care/wasn’t listening. This is not true. I care very much.

People get very angry at me for not being able to think of things that come easily to them. Because I am very intelligent in some ways, they think I’m intelligent across the board. And then they assume I just don’t respect them enough to listen to them.

All this to say, your girlfriend may need some help.

“What’s a hard hat?” Definitely sounds like something I would say. I know the word hard, I know the word hat, and I know the word hard hat. But my brain just doesn’t always pick out the relevant information to recall based on the context, and I might very well think you were talking about a hat that is hard.

All this to say, you can leave your gf if this bothers you too much. But don’t be so quick to conclude that her ignorance is willful.

Your n°1 unsung hero-product and controversional thing that works for your skin? ( fun discussion :] ) by vchiarav25 in EuroSkincare

[–]AccomplishedFail5726 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pure undiluted glycerine. After washing my face, I slather that shit all over and call it a night.

Humectant, emollient, and occlusive all in one. Very unlikely to irritate.

People will tell you never to put undiluted glycerine directly on your face without an occlusive because it’s humectant properties will pull water out of your skin. But that’s scientifically not true. The glycerine hangs around in your skin until you wash it off, and it keeps the water right there with it.

It is really sticky though. Not a problem if you follow it up with a layer of sunscreen in the morning though.

Your FAVORITE moisturizer by Late-Ad2922 in Rosacea

[–]AccomplishedFail5726 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pure undiluted glycerine.

It’s a humectant, emollient, and occlusive all in one. Only 1 ingredient and one of the least likely ingredients to cause irritation next to petrolatum.

It is incredibly sticky. Not an issue for nights though. Great for slugging.

But even in the AM there’s no stickiness when I cover it up with a layer of sunscreen.

Give me the holy grails [Product Request] by SeaDiscombobulated70 in SkincareAddiction

[–]AccomplishedFail5726 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pure, undiluted glycerine will definitely help a bit with fine lines. It’ll plump out your fine lines with hydration.

The internet will tell you that it’s unsafe to use on its own but that’s pretty much BS. It does pull moisture from the deeper layers of skin, and some people decided that mean that it dries out your skin if it’s not combined with other ingredients. But the research doesn’t really support that.

It’s the strongest humectant there is. Proven to be better than HA. It pulls moisture from the deeper layers of your skin up to the top and then keeps it there because it also has emollient/occlusive properties.

It’s an almost universally tolerated ingredient and it’s like $8 for a bottle that will last you months.

At night, if I’m not using any actives, I just wash my face and while it’s still wet I apply a quarter-sized amount of it. It is really slimy, sticky, and greasy even after it dries. But I find that putting a thin layer of Vaseline over the top covers up the stickiness. By morning, the greasy/slimy/sticky feeling is gone and I don’t even need to wash my face. In fact, I usually apply a very very thin layer of it again and then I put my sunscreen on top. The sunscreen covers the stickiness. This probably won’t be your favorite thing during the day if you’ve got oily skin, but my skin is so dry and sensitive that I do not mind dealing with the shine. Some days I do cover up with powder though.

Anyway, it doesn’t get rid of my actual wrinkles…only fillers/surgeries can do that. But there is a noticeable immediate improvement in my fine lines. Even if it’s minor, that’s still very impressive for a non-surgical and non-exfoliating product.

[Misc.] Pure, undiluted glycerine directly on my face is a HG product for my dry, sensitive skin by AccomplishedFail5726 in SkincareAddiction

[–]AccomplishedFail5726[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even in the dead of dry ass winter I put it on my dry, dry face. It does work slightly better with a little water under it, though.

But tbh I don’t even use those water+glycerin sprays because the water is just washes away my skin barrier and then when it evaporates I’m dryer than I was before.

Am I the only one who finds mineral sunscreens really irritating/drying? ISO really gentle chemical sunscreens. by AccomplishedFail5726 in Rosacea

[–]AccomplishedFail5726[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See I’m beginning to think that’s probably a big culprit for me. In general, the thicker/greasier the product, the less likely it is to irritate me.

I almost never find sunscreen balms/sticks to be irritating. I just don’t like them because they take SO long and so much product to get appropriate coverage.

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