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Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐨Thur 11 Jan 2024

How is the vitamin E cream for sensitive skin that easily stings and reddens? Looking for an alternative to Cerave as it’s not the cheapest and I’m almost out.

(Even unscented Sorbolene will irritate my face because apparently there’s a tiny bit of detergent/surfactant in it. Perfume is another big irritant.)

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Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Maybe try the Goat Milk stuff? It’s supermarket cheap and doesn’t smell of either perfume or goat.

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- melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Maybe! The Moo Goo stuff also resulted in welts of doom but the Aldi goats milk soap is tolerated
  
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  - Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Both work for me when I turn into a crocodile over Winter. Sounds like you’re super sensitive, Luck!
    
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    melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I joke that I’m allergic to Earth
    
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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Hmm, have you tried Simple? I have a lot of sensitivities too, that’s my go-to.

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- melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I might try if it’s cheap. I just stopped buying that brand years ago when I had an allergic reaction to the cleansing oil and found the soap drying.
  
  (It was either the emulsifier or the grapeseed oil. Red welts all over my face)
  
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Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I like it for ordinary use. For really sensitive skin I might go to the chemist for pure sorbolene - this is what they gave me at Peter Mac for use on radiation therapy sensitised skin and it was just marvellous. Unscented.

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- melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah that might be a good idea
  
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