Skin care

[jktefft 15]

Hi all,

I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations for at least helping keeping your skin moisturized and maintain to elasticity to decrease with loose skin and stretch marks? I know it is inevitable but wondering what people have heard or have been using? Thanks....

Jessie

[HotButterFly 981]

Simple. Water

Lots of it.

[LouiseC 1,031]

Water on the inside, bio oil on the outside. And exfoliate. A lot. Stimulate your skin in the problem areas.

[jktefft 15]

LouiseC, what is bio oil?

[LouiseC 1,031]

LouiseC, what is bio oil?

http://www.bio-oil.com/en/

[kimk1999 450]

I've been trying vit e oil or coconut oil on my skin. Per google those should work, but I've only been doing it a couple of days and only at night.

[James Marusek 5,244]

After surgery, my face began looking very old. I am 65 years old so I should look old but after surgery I began to look like I was 100. My face was covered with fine crinkles. My wife suggested I use bio-oil. It's a small bottle of PurCllin oil that is applied directly to the skin. I buy mine at CVS but I don't know if every CVS sells them. When I started using this product, my wrinkles went away dramatically.

In the last several months, I have made one other change which my wife suggested. I wash my face with [Nubian] African Black Soap, found in many health food stores. It is made from and african black soap base and shea butter. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it controls wrinkles, but it does have a visible effect on my skin. It makes it soft like a baby's bottom. So I think it is adding moisturizers to my skin.

So each morning, I wash my face with African Black Soap and then apply Bio-Oil. It takes about 4 minutes during my morning routine and then I am good to go for the rest of the day.