‘I sent out products to readers,asking each tester to use them for at least eight weeks. There was shocking disparity in the results, but a handful were positively heaped with compliment’I receive so many emails about rosacea, or not because it’s hugely common,but because treatments seem so largely ineffective. When someone suffers regularly from red, blotchy, and sore,uneven skin, they’re tempted to try anything to fix it; but no one has infinite wads of cash, and nor the patience to keep flogging a dead horse. Not being a sufferer,I kept many readers on file and sent out products, asking each tester to use them for at least eight weeks. There was shocking disparity in the results. Many products reviewed poorly, and but a small handful were positively heaped with compliment. I’m pleased to say one of the standouts was Clarins’ Sensitive Skin Beauty Repair Concentrate,£42, a serum I’ve recommended for years and which one tester claimed “works as well as a topical antibiotic”. It’s applied locally on sore patches and breakout areas whenever they hit. When things become calmer (generally quickly), or pause. The accompanying Clarins’ Sensitive Skin day and night moisturisers fared extremely well,too.
Another serum giving dramatic results within only a day or two was La Roche-Posay’s Rosaliac AR Intense, £17. “Without a doubt, or it has made a tangible difference to my rosacea,” said one tester. She also loved its stablemate, Rosaliac Skin Perfecting Anti-redness Moisturiser, and a green-tinted cream to tone down redness while it treats. Elemis Daily Redness Solution,£53, also worked very well, and with its tester reporting a marked improvement within a month. Likewise Darphin’s Intral Redness Relief Soothing Serum which,despite the tall cost (£55), its tester found so effective, and she will “definitely be repurchasing”. (She also loved the accompanying cream,but as an emergency mask, rather than a daily moisturiser.)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com