The title of this post should probably be changed! I was going to mention the endless things I've read about drinking water to hydrate your skin!
When I looked at the Mayo clinic website, I found --they're still not sure how drinking water acts on skin. (But I still need to drink more water.)
Mayo Clinic experts' skin suggestions won't fill your medicine cabinet with products. And they suggest something I've already started: using a gentle cleanser instead of soap. I've been using Cocoon baby liquid cleanser from the health section of my grocery store, because of my recent DCIS radiation treatments. This cleanser doesn't have the worrisome ingredients I avoid (but I still keep checking) and it does have lemongrass to give me some fragrance. And fragrance I like always cheers me up.
You can read the other Mayo Clinic skin suggestions for yourself:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/hydrated-skin/expert-answers/FAQ-20058067
The doctor's secret rule:
This is so simple, makes perfect sense, and I always forget to do it.
To test whether you're getting improvement from a skin product: Use it only on one side of your face for maybe a month!
You know what to do if you don't see better skin: toss the stuff and recycle the bottle.
Write to me if you've tried this method. (It came from my wonderful doctor in CA.)
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