By request!
What is your skincare routine? Before pregnancy? During? After? Did/do you change your routine?
What do you recommend, love? hate?
What to avoid in pregnancy? What works best?
Share it all here. No need to answer all of the questions, just a jumping off point.
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TTC#1 10/2016
TTC/IF:included medicated cycles, IUIs and 2 rounds of IVF with 1 embryo each.
BFP finally in 12/2018
TTC#2 06/2021
planning FET
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Re: Product Spotlight: Skincare
Before pregnancy, I was using retinol, so I stopped that even though there's evidence topical retinol is fine (oral retinol is extremely NOT fine).
I have super dry skin. I think that's always the thing about skincare - you can't really follow someone else's plan because they probably have different skin, different sun exposure and different humidity levels in their area than you do.
During the day I use Skinceuticals vitamin c serum followed by Skinceuticals moisturizer with one of a few Korean sunscreen brands on top (so much better than American sunscreen, my God).
At night usually use Paula's Choice BHA toner, followed by the Krave serum, and then a moisturizer (I have like 15 lol) or instead of the Krave I'll use the Faded serum from Topicals.
For body I use the Biossance body oil after I get out of the shower. Sometimes I'll use the skinfix body AHA lotion, but usually I don't. I'll probably start using thicker body creams once my belly starts to grow.
My skincare routine is nonexistent, so nothing to contribute here lol.
I am currently using Dime which is big with the Instagram influencers I've seen which is how I found it. It's got very clean ingredients and really feels good going on and I feel like my skin (especially pre-pregnancy, because right now my skin is CRAP) looks super healthy and hydrated since I started using it. There's a cleanser, toner, two serums (one for day and one for night), 2 moisturizers (day/night), and an under eye cream. They have other products too, that's just the package I use.
I also supplement with a few things from Good Habit which is a blue light blocking system. I really wanna try more of their products, I currently only have a masque and a toner. I get them from my perfume subscription service Scentbird.
I also use the EltaMD cleanser. And that is my entire skin routine.
Edited to add: when I’m done with pregnancy/breastfeeding, I’m looking forward to resuming retinoids (adapalene, the only OTC retinoid), Babyfoot glycolic acid skin peels for my feet, and Botox for my forehead (🙈)
For myself, I've found that natural ingredients work best for me and the reason I have oily skin is because it's dehydrated. My routine is:
Morning
- wash with OM organics oil cleanser
- mix OMs blemish treatment with Living libations maverick moisturizer.
- living libations eye serum
- sunscreen I'm currently using coola sport but I'll be switching to Think Sport when I'm done this bottle.
Night
- OM eye cream