Oil and Baby Cream: My Unusual Skin Care Routine.

There are a lot of posts on a multitude of blogs, and a lot of videos on a multitude of YouTube channels relating to various people's skin care routines. Depending of the posts you read and videos you watch, you can often be presented with a number of products suitable to your skin type, but not to your funds. I've watched a great deal of these sorts of videos, as a number of the people I am subscribed to have posted them, and I am usually faced with such products.

Now, when you have skin as problematic as mine, it is never guaranteed that these products will work. So often I judge these supposed miracle products as too much of a risk in terms of potentially being a waste of money. Also, as I'm a student I don't really have much money to spare on these products anyway. So, because of this I have to seek out high street alternatives.

I've found a fair few good alternatives in my time. But my skin gets used to them pretty quickly and in a month or two as the bottle or tube has a third of its contents left, or less, and my skin is totally unresponsive and back to the way it was before. Although there is one product that I found at the beginning of the year -another item of mine that upon hearing of it I had searched four or five shops for until I found it- that has yet to fail me -really hoping I'm not jinxing myself. That product is the pink Garnier moisturiser from their 'Moisture Match' range. It's the one for dry to very dry skin. And although I love this product, this is all the face time it is getting -although it might get some more in a future post- as it's not the reason I have decided to write this post.

Groovy Food's Organic Virgin Coconut Oil. ♥

I have decided to write this post because of two new arrivals in my life that have absolutely nothing to do with skin care.

The first, and least bizarre of the two, is coconut oil. Virgin coconut oil is my saving grace! After two days of applying it twice a day after I'd washed my face -once in the morning and then before I went to bed- my dry skin was noticeably better. A week and a half later, using the same routine, my skin looked amazing and was super, super soft and hydrated. If you have really dry skin then I highly recommend you give virgin coconut oil a go. I honestly can't put into words how great it is!

Not only does this smell like white chocolate,
but it sort of looks like a pot of it too.
Well, until you read the label.

The second, and strangest, is Waitrose's Baby Bottom Butter. It sounds ludicrous I know, but hear me out on this! Now that I'm at university, and my mum has discovered Facebook, she loves sending me links to money saving ideas and websites. One day she sent me a link titled something along the lines of "12 Cheap and Easy Beauty Hacks". I clicked on it, and on this list was the Waitrose Baby Bottom Butter. I didn't think much of it until later my mum reminded me about it and then added that one of her colleagues went to buy it, but her local Waitrose had completely sold out of it because so many women were buying it. That really got me interested, so the next time we found ourselves in a Waitrose we brought a tub of the stuff each. And just like the coconut oil, this stuff is amazing! I now usually use this in the morning as it's a better base for make-up than the oil, and it keeps my skin feeling smooth all day. Another thing I love about this product is the smell, it smells exactly like white chocolate -I sometimes wish I could eat the stuff.

So if any of you reading this have dry to very dry skin, I really, really recommend you try one of these out. They continue to work wonders for me!
-Hannah. :)