Nixe the Moisturizer???

disablingmercury

So I saw an article title by SheFinds on the BB site: Nixe the Moisturizer. I was intrigued. SheFinds' author went in for a facial and they told her to stop using moisturizer and exfoliate daily because "dry skin is a myth." What do you all think of this?

http://shefinds.com/blog/index.php/weblog/comments/new_beauty_regime_nixe_the_moisturizer/

I'm not sure I agree. I'm under the impression that exfoliating every day is bad for your skin, for one. Also, I live in Minnesota and frankly the idea of going without moisturizer (especially in the winter -- it gets cold up here) is a scary thought. I certainly hope that they aren't implying the moisturizer is BAD for your skin...I'd be more inclined to think it may be unnecessary for some people/during certain times of the year.

Anyway, let me know what you think!

taiwanesegurl

shefinds.com is down for maintenance, so i can't read the article..
i really don't think dry skin is a myth.. you want your skin to stay hydrated and plumped, no? otherwise you'd just get wrinkles..
actually, you will gets wrinkles if you don't moisturize.. my mom (who i totally didn't get my beauty insights from), decided that it's best to let her skin "breathe" at night, so she stopped using moisturizer at night for almost a year.. she aged 3 years during that time.. her sun/age spots got darker, her lines got deeper, and overall she looked like a mess..
when i found out what she was doing, i asked if she was out of her mind, and told her to stop doing that.. now her skin is in a much better condition.. and she looks much younger now!! like she's in her late 40s instead of her true age..

PurpleRules

My skin gets so dry and tight that it hurts if I don't moisturize so there's no way I'm stopping.
Perhaps shefinds has oily skin and doesn't need a moisturizer. There are plenty of people who don't need a moisturizer but use one anyway because they've been told so many times to "cleanse, tone and moisturize." But there are plenty of us who can't live without it. If her assessment that "dry skin is a myth" is a blanket, across-the-board statement that applies to everyone then she doesn't know enough about skin to be advising anyone on skincare.

Karen

disablingmercury: I really like a website that Purple found and shared with all of us that might have your answer. It's called thedermblog.com and the dermatologist who writes it really seems to know his stuff. I was amused and educated by his advice a few months ago on a related topic. He blogged about how he can't understand the way women spend big bucks on moisturizers to apply at night, only to wash them off in the morning. His point was that you only need to wash your face once a day. He recommends washing your face at night and then applying moisturizer but only splashing your face with water while showering the next morning. Now that I'm applying an expensive topical Vitamin C treatment at night, I've changed my routine,

cate

I only use moisturizer in the colder months. And with that I usually try to keep it to my cheeks which are uber dry. and it the summer...forget it I will have so many break-outs. I finally seem to have my skin under control and I just wash with Cetaphil daily and St. Ives Apricot scrub once a week

Judy

I have a cautionary tale...I started having dry patches of skin about six months ago and just kept exfoliating and moisurizing with very little results. Then I went to my dermatologist and asked him why my skin was so DRY...to which he said "Your skin is not DRY...it is scaley and when dry patches don't HEAL by themselves they can be pre-cancerous spots". Uh oh...he zapped/froze the stops off and they are better now after blistering.
Take away message: See your dermatoloist regularly especially when your skin acts up and doesn't improve with product use. A trip to the dermatologist can often save you the expense of searching for a cosmetic product to fix your particular skin problem.
OK...I'M OFF THE SOAPBOX NOW. I'll go back to worrying about Sarah Palin as prez.

PurpleRules

Every time I go to the dermatologist, she asks me if there's anything I'm concerned about and I say "Well, this spot here is new or that spot looks a little different..." and she says "Those are both fine but this spot over here is suspicious" and points to something I wouldn't have thought twice about. So go to the dermatologist even if you think you're fine because even though you read those disgusting pamphlets in the waiting room and check your moles regularly, your dermatologist is a much better judge of what's cause for concern.
I didn't know that non-healing dry patches could be pre-cancerous. Now I can point them out to her and she can say "That dry patch is fine but that dry patch..."

cate

oh my scary stuff....I think a trip to the derm is needed anyway for me....

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