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[cherry]

A question to my sensitive-skinned sisters out there: what product(s) do you use? Every since Oil of Olay randomly discontinued their sensitive-skin soaps, I've been trying to find a good alternative.

"Use Dove," is generally the advice I receive. However, despite their Real Beauty campaign, they (Unilever) also sell skin bleaching creams overseas. That's just not something I'm willing to support, even by proxy, so Dove is out. Avene makes a non-soap cold cream bar that I really like, but it's a little pricey, and bar soap just isn't ideal for the showers at the gym.

Anyone have any suggestions, store bought, homemade, or otherwise?


In other news: I have a passport and a plane ticket! I now have the legal ability and practical means to leave the country. Also, perhaps more importantly, to reenter it.

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[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

I've tried and don't much like most of the St. Ives stuff, but the oatmeal and shea butter is the exception. The smell is mild (especially compared to most of their stuff, which tends to be very fragrant) and I've noticed it actually helps alleviate the dry itchiness of my skin. The best I can hope for with most soaps is that they don't make it worse.

Yeah, the habit of discontinuing my favorite soaps ticks me off too. Suave used to have an aloe & water lily body wash that I loved to death. The scent was light, non-intrusive, and refreshing (you could really only smell it in the shower; it was so light it faded away by the time you dried off), and the aloe was very soothing--especially if I'd managed to sunburn myself or something. I still grieve over it. I've tried some of their Naturals line, and they're just too harsh. I end up all itchy and miserable. Speaking of which, I need to buy more soap. I've run out of everything else, and all I've got is half a bottle of Suave Naturals Ocean Breeze. :P No wonder I've been scratching so much.

Some of Caress's stuff is also not too bad (though some of it is very fragrant), but it's usually also expensive. I picked up a bottle I found on clearance a while back, and it's gentle enough that I can use it on my face...though it's still not as good as the Suave or the St. Ives.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

I shall have to give it a try, then. I just have a knee-jerk suspicion of St. Ives.

When I'm at home, I really like Avene's cold cream bar, for face and body. It's on the pricey side, but it does last for quite a while, as long as you don't leave it sitting in water. Because it's soap-free it doesn't actually lather, but it cleans quite nicely. I keep trying new things (as witnessed by this post), but I keep going back to it, especially when my skin gets worked up into an itch.

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

I think the oatmeal and shea butter stuff is one of the ones they sell in sample size. So if you can find that, might be worth trying it that way to save money if it turns out not to work for you.