Body care, skin care, sun care
“I
use this brand called Organic Surge which you can get from the same places as I get my Australian
Organics – so your health food stores and Waitrose. When I use Radox or any of
the other brands I am itchy everywhere, it creates little bumps on my skin all
that sort of thing. When I use these it doesn’t. I really enjoy that and it
comes in different flavours. This one is called Fresh Ocean, I do like this one
but the other one that I like is Peach and Pomegranate which is lovely and
fruity. I love anything with Pomegranate in it.
I
also use a brand called Liz Earle. She is English and she is sold either on her website or I got this
from my girlfriend Eva who works in Browns in central London. They [Browns]
often have a lot of boutique products there. So that’s how I was introduced to
Liz Earle and I absolutely love it. All naturally derived, it has some really
calming things in it. This is Liz Earle Cleanse & Polish (Hot Cloth Cleanser) so
you use it with a muslin cloth. So after doing your cleansing you put this on.
It’s a really really fine exfoliator because I can’t use anything that is thick
or heavy or has too many big granules because my skin is just too sensitive and
I think it takes away too much skin - you’re not supposed to be completely
stripping skin off your face. So it’s really fine and you put that on and leave
it for a few minutes. Then get your muslin cloth, using natural cotton, with
warm water and you just gently polish it off in circular motions. Really,
really lovely and refreshing. I have to be careful because even though products
might definitely be organic or natural I could still be allergic to them
because I’ve discovered that lavender doesn’t work for me and a lot of natural
products have lavender in them. There are so many brands out there, especially
in Australia, that are lovely and should have been so good and I just got
terrible eczema on my face or breakouts or pimples or whatever because they had
lavender in them. So I need to be really careful to stick away from that and
Liz Earle is one brand that doesn’t use a lot of lavender. So that’s why I love
her. I use that once daily and it will usually be in the evening before I go to
bed.
Another
brand which I love for natural stuff is Jurlique, which is Australian and it is just so gorgeous
and it’s super hard to get over here [London]. Again I got it from Browns but
you can order it on the Internet. This is an intense recovery mask so it’s one
of those green masks that you put on your face and you look like an Alien. You
leave it on for 10 minutes and then wash it off. I use that once a week.
I do
wash my face in the morning but I don’t do the full regime like I do in the
evening. When I wake up I’m lucky I don’t have very oily skin or put it the
other way I don’t have very dry skin. I’m really in the middle so in the
morning I just have to do a general quick cleanse and moisturise and I’m fine -
I don’t need to do my whole mask and exfoliator. I also use dermalogica. It’s
not organic or natural and this is where I can sound a bit contradictory. I use
it because when I’ve tried alternatives - because I wanted to get off it not
because it didn’t work for me or anything like that but because of how I’m
trying to sort of introduce as many naturally derived things in my life as I
can bit by bit and I wanted to get rid of the dermologica just so that I could
do that - and so I tried. There are so many lovely brands out - there’s Sukin
that’s a great one, again it’s Australian but you can get it over here in
health food stores, there’s Dead Sea Mineral, and I tried so many - probably
about 6 - and none of them worked for me. I got breakouts. I got eczema again
on my face. It was horrible and I know that sometimes when you change products
sometimes your skin needs to get used to it so you’ll often have a breakout for
a couple of days or maybe a week and then it will settle down but I got to the
point where I would want to scratch my face off because it was so itchy. Or at
one point before I went to Australia last year I started a new product, all
natural oils in the moisturiser and cleanser and everything and I just got
eczema all around my nose, all around my mouth. It was just horrible and I just
don’t know what it was so I’ve gone back to dermologica for my cleanser, toner
and moisturiser. But then again within dermologica there are so many products
that I can’t use that will also give me reactions. So I’ve been lucky and found
the ones that work for me. I use UltraCalming Cleanser, a
hydrating toner, and I use the skin smoothing cream. So
they’re my three dermologica products that I use that work absolutely perfectly
for me.
- As revealed to Vanity Case
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