Effective & Inexpensive Skin Care Products
With the right skin care products you can look great and save money too! There are some really great inexpensive anti aging products on the market today! No friggin kiddin! I am a woman of 49 years who refuses to look old. I don’t want to age gracefully. I don't want to age slowly either. I don’t want to age period! The hard truth however, is that no matter how bad we don't want to age, we're going to age anyway, like it or lump it. There are a bunch of things you can do along the way to stop the aging process in it's tracks!
Being in the Beauty Care and Health Care industry most of my adult life, you can really learn a lot. My hope is that the information I've gained along the way is going to help you. Help you stay more youthful, age less quickly, and save a bunch of money.
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Even when you are on a budget, there are so many unforeseen variables that always seem to eat away at the principle and literally sometimes leave us in the dark! Add to that, the many choices on the market today, who knows what will save you money and still be effective! There are so many skin care products out there. Who knows what will work best? Every time we turn around, there is a new skin care product promising to make you look great and look younger too. It can get so confusing! The manufacturers make so many products that we don’t need but advertisements will convince you that you do need them. The advertisements do such an awesome job too! But that is exactly what advertisements are designed to do! They will entice you, brainwash you, and finally compel you into buying their latest campaign of 'whatever crap they can think of' to tempt your money right out of your pocket.
Being a single mom means being on a budget all the time. Taking care of myself has certainly been a challenge, to say the least. I am amazed at all the new skin care products every time I go into the store. These products promise to make us younger and more beautiful! How could we possibly know what products work best or which skin care products will give you the most BANG for your BUCK?
The trick is to find which products you can scrimp on and which ones you cannot. What would you say if I told you there were some wonderfully effective skin care products that didn't cost that much? These are all daily maintenance products that when bought together cost LESS than $25 and will last a few months! Just like you keep 'staple' food items in your kitchen, you should keep 'staple' skin care products in your home! These staple items are essential to any daily skin care regimen. They can really help you look great! *I have compiled a list of those staple skin care products that I’ve been using for almost 20 years. My skin looks and feels incredible at 48. These products are staple products but very effective performers.* This is a list of my six little known skin care products that work very well and are inexpensive to buy! These products are not only cheaper to buy, but they also help reduce the signs of aging, and work just as well as any expensive brand. They are always available BUT are relatively Hidden Wonders of Total Skin Care. They will help you look great! Staple Skin Care ProductsFor my body I use (#1) Dial Bar Soap with Vitamins. It has a hydrating complex of vitamins A, B and E and its marvelous! This soap gets a 5 star recommendation from me, for sure. It smells totally herbal and has such a rich, luxurious lather. The smell itself is a good enough reason to purchase it. You would be amazed at how smooth it leaves your skin and how well it works. This soap is wonderful and it will help your skin look beautiful! The other best part is that you can purchase 3 bars of soap for around $3!
Its called Dial Glycerin Bar Soap, White Tea and Vitamin E Back To List
It is also inexpensive to buy and works very well! The soap is transparent, so you know it’s not going to leave any filmy residue on your face. Your face feels clean and clear after use, and the Neutrogena soap lathers into a rich, dense lather.
*TIP - When you dry your face, don't rub it too hard with your towel. Patting it dry is the best way to dry it. Any extra tugging or pulling on the delicate facial skin is a 'no no'. Drying it with too much pressure is a precursor to 'wrinkles'. Back To List
(#3) Puffs "Plus" Kleenex w/ Lotion. Add warm water, squeeze out the excess water, and gently rub off eye makeup. They work especially great around the delicate eye area! For sure! I like to fold the Kleenex in half diagonally. This increases the tensile strength. You can rinse it and re-wet it as you remove more makeup! They are extremely gentle on the skin too! 'Puffs Plus' Kleenexes have Vitamin E and Aloe lotion in them and they will not fall apart when you get them wet. And they are CHEAP! Costing about $2 - $3 per box of 144. (That’s about 1.5 cents a tissue.) It’s much cheaper to remove makeup using Puffs Plus Kleenex! (As compared to expensive facial cleansing cloths.) (For example, Oil of Olay has a box of facial cleansing cloths at $6.44/box of 46. That’s $.14 or 14 cents a cloth!) Puff Plus are VERY GENTLE on the skin and is another way to help you save money and look great! (Another inexpensive skin care product you will be pleased as all get out, that you found out about!) After you remove most of the makeup from your eyes, simply use Neutrogena bar soap to thoroughly clean the rest of your face. You can also use your clean fingernails to get slightly deeper into the pores of your face and deep clean excessive oils. Apply light pressure and use small circular motions with your fingernails while you lather your face. This really helps to deep clean it. (Almost as good as Dermabrasion like Ponds Purely Polished Micro-Dermabrasion
(If you're in a hurry, it's really OK to use any antibacterial hand soap instead. It truly works very well for normal to oily skin in a pinch. It also leaves your skin free of bacteria which means it's clean and fresh!) Follow up cleaning your face with a good facial toner. If you have oily skin, try to find a toner with Salicylic acid in it. Buy the cheaper brands too like Neutrogena Pore Refining Toner They work just as well as the expensive ones do! Toners help restore natural PH balance, remove the deep oils from your skin, and leave your skin oil free and feeling clean and fresh.
The bottle also boasts that the lotion is 'an unexcelled combination of natural ingredients to combat dryness and help your skin retain the fresh, moist look of youth.' Fruit of the Earth Lotion is manufactured in the USA and also has NOT been tested on animals. What a great company!~ I know I have depended on this lotion for over 20 years now, to give me the best lotion each time I buy it.
As for my face, I would love to use an expensive facial lotion all the time but I can’t afford them. However your face is the one place you can’t afford to just buy what’s cheapest. Every now and then it's OK to splurge and buy a Clinique or Estee Lauder product, but sometimes you can't afford to 'pay it forward' to get a great skin care product. We all love their products! It’s just our pocketbooks that gets in the way! So for everyday use, use (#5) Oil of Olay Daily Facial Lotion like Olay All Day Complete UV Defense Moisture Lotion The generic brand works just as well as the Oil of Olay. (I bought both of them and interchanged them and couldn’t tell the difference). The generic brand costs about $3 for a 6 oz bottle. You just need to buy the right blend for your face type such as oil free, sensitive skin, etc. But I do suggest splurging on one other facial skin care product. Back To List
It costs a little more to buy at around $20 for a 1.4oz bottle, but I only use it sparingly about once or twice a week or so. One small bottle should last you about 6 months.
This lotion’s got an SPF (Sun Protection Factor) in it, Vitamins A, C and E, Pro Vitamin B5 and an Alpha Hydroxy Acid. The Hydroxy Acid is vital! It helps promote a light facial peel. When your skin peels it improves your skins texture and appearance. Neutrogena Healthy Skin
It is good to note that not all hydroxy lotions are the same. Some have more acids in them for normal to oily skin. Some have less in them for normal to dry or sensitive skin. Neutrogena Healthy Skin Hydroxy lotions and vitamin lotions are products that REALLY make your skin 'glow'! This lotion is yet another favorite skin care product that I can't live without! Back To List
I love the way Fruit of the Earth and Neutrogena work, and simply just 'look' at new products and roll my eyes at them and laugh. I know about skin care and to me some of the new stuff is simply 'anything (crap) we can do to get you to buy' in a bottle. For both facial and body lotion, the buying principle is the same. If you want to look great use a combination of an inexpensive daily lotion with a good quality lotion that you will use sparingly, then you can save money. Inexpensive skin care products at their finest! I still think that Fruit of the Earth is a great all around lotion that I can even use on my face if I want. It won’t clog your pores and goes on clean and fresh everytime! 1. Dial Soap with Vitamins 2. Neutrogena Transparent Facial Bar 3. Puffs Plus Kleenex 4. Fruit of the Earth Vitamin E Body Lotion 5. Oil of Olay, (or it’s generic equivalent), Daily Face Lotion 6. Neutrogena Healthy Skin Face Lotion All of these core products together will cost you about $25, depending on the store where you buy them. And they will last you about 3 months or more! The way the economy is going, we've just gotta save money and cut back somewhere. These products are all you need to make your skin glow and your pocketbook sing! You can substitute some of your favorite low cost products, if you have some that have worked well for you over time. I would love for you to at least give some of them a try so you can see for yourself how well they work! The main point I am trying to make here is that we all have decisions we must make in our lives. Spending less on comparable products that work just as well if not better as the expensive ones will give you the freedom to spend money on other things you need. This is truly the basic fundamental theme of my entire website. Being mindful about spending money today is the first step to saving money for a rainy day~Subscribe to my free newsletter. Get interesting facts and money saving tips to help conserve and improve your beauty and your health. Didn't find what you were looking for? Use this handy tool to find it fast! To go to the Anti Aging Skin Care page, here's the link:
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