“I find that cutting down on wine, keeping out of the sun, and washing with Dove soap immediately followed by a gentle neutral cream, are all sensitive skin needs to keep redness at bay, but I do need to put two or three dots of a cosmetic cover stick, like a beige lipstick, on my cheeks to look better.”

I finally discover that the simpler products are the best for me; from now, I use SpectroGel as a cleanser and the Glaxal Base as a moisturizer and my skin feels much better. Both are inexpensive, and you can easily find them in most drugstores in Canada. They do not contain any parfum, paraben, and only “fatty” alcohols.

As chemical sunscreen would irritate my skin, I use physical sunscreens (with zinc and titanium), and I finally found one, from Cliniderm, which do not make my skin looks too white (the cream has a weird yellow teint, but once applied on my face, it almost look as if I was not wearing sunscreen). Jojoba oil, followed by my usual cleanser, is useful to remove it at the end of the day. For days I don’t feel about wearing sunscreen, I simply use an umbrella.

Cutting off dairy products, citrus, tomatoes and drinking a lot of water, and focusing on spiritual matters also help.

Best of luck to you!

Marie

The skin should be treated in the gentlest manner possible, with neutral skin preparations like Dove or Cetaphil soap and their corresponding protective lotions applied immediately after washing.