I will frequently read the labels and look for beneficial ingredients and read up cleansers to find out what is the best for me. Apperance affects mood, so I try my best.
I try and use the best with what little money I have. I mixed two moisturizers for dry skin. Nature's pharmacy aloe vera with vitamin e is mixed with Jergens multivitamin moisturizer. The mulitvitamin moisturizer has vitamins e, a, and c in it. I try and use plants because they have minerals and phyotochemicals that are good for the skin. The phytochemicals have antioxidant properties greater than the vitamins and minerals themselves, but are not labeled as essential yet. The vitamins make up the rest of the good stuff. Its broard spectrum benefits, with other moisturizers like mineral oil. I don't use exfoliants, but I do use silicon gel for scars. I apply the aloe vera with vitamin e skin gel after shaving, or some other irritation. I tan real easy, and will get red quickly so I apply if I want to ride around with my shirt off.
For body wash I use suave aloe vera moisturizing body wash. This has aloe vera, vitamin e, glycerin, water lilly root extract, and sunflower glycerides. Its not the best, but it has quite a few benefical ingredients, and that is why I use it. If I see a better one that I can buy, with less artifical crap and more benefical ingredients, that I will definitely take it. The body wash seems to work fine. From my understanding, lathering, is from too much. When the cleanser lathers, its grabbing on to air in addition to other stuff. I read this some where.
