I'm looking for a really good skin care regime and want to know which one is better...
Miessence or Dermalogica?
A lovely BBer recommended Miessence because it's organic and made of all natural products which I LOVE. But will it be enough if my acne suddenly errupts? I've used the Dermalogica Clearing Booster before and it worked wonders but I'm not sure about their skin care regime as a whole - is it similar to Proactive in any way? (That stuff destroyed my skin).
Would love to hear from people who have used both - and which one is more effective in keeping pimples and acne at bay.
Gosh it's tempting to leave this unanswered just to see you kill your own thread PMSL!
I haven't used either.. but I can vouch for handmade soaps (and I would think the same of any non-chemical soap/cleanser) for clearing up DH's awful awful acne. He makes his own soap and hasn't had a problem since.
So I'd go for whichever has the least chemical sounding ingredients! It'd probably be miessence. The main culprit that people avoid is SLS (sodium lauryl/laureth sulphate) which is a surfactant, this strips the skin. There are so-called plant-derived surfactants.. but you're best to even avoid them. Best thing is to get a soap (I know.. the word soap has been sullied by horrible commercial soaps with loads of crap in them.. REAL soap won't hurt your skin) that is full of lovely natural oils and use a natural moisturiser too. DH has never looked back, and friends with acne & eczema etc have used his soap with success too. (we used to sell soaps but we're too lazy to do all the work anymore LOL)
I use Dermalogica and love it. I use the normal-oily skin range and I find you don't have to use very much at all to get results. My beautician put me onto this as since I've had Emily, I've been getting breakouts often.
I use the cleanser, toner, moisturiser & mask.
I've never used Proactive, so can't compare on the 2. But Dermalogica has been very gentle on my skin.
I am a miessence girl through and through and I sell the product..........as a therapist, I have found a lot of the acne and skin problems to be as a result of the commercial products being so harsh on the skin. They are so full of synthetic chemicals that go through the skin and your body is unable to remove them all so they build up. The synthetic parabens alone are now being discovered accummulated in breast tumours. This has been put down more to deoderants than cosmetics but the fact is the chemicals from the cosmetics still enter the body unheeded. At least when you eat crap chemicals the liver gets a crack at removing the crap.....when it goes through the skin, is gets into the body unchecked.
And yes it is a small amount.....but a small amount every day for the rest of our lives. I believe it adds up over time. I also believe that the synthetics eventually age us faster and cause us to buy higher priced anti-aging products. Great commerical marketing system!
Another thing I think about - do I want to be washing that cleanser into the sink and waterways? I want to do the best I can for the next generation - we are leaving them with some serious environmental issues to sort out and every little bit we do helps out.
I would recommend that you at least try miessence first - you can buy the travel size so you can try at a small cost. If you really don't like it, then switch, but give the company that is doing their best by us a first choice.
Miessence also offers 14 day money back guarantee - you don't like the product, the smell, the feel or you react in some way.......just return it and get your money back - I don't think many (are the any?) commercial companies that offer that sort of guarantee.
Miessence or Dermalogica?
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