I've had rosacea (a kind of adult acne related to stress hormones which causes at best reddening of the skin, spots, and can lead to terrible thickening of the skin in some instances) for about 15 years. In my case, it's made my nose and chin very red, and the skin on them pitted and bumpy and usually spotty. All this and wrinkles too - what joy. I've tried so many potions and lotions I've lost count, from acid washes and creams to steroids. I've spent an absolute fortune, and none of them have provided any lasting relief or alleviated the condition at all. So when somebody recommended this little pot of natural cream for less than a tenner, at a time when my rosacea was especially red and painful, I thought it was worth a try.
I've left off providing a review for a while, because I wanted to see where we would be a few weeks down the line. Like a lot of us, when I try a new cream, my regime is better (I make sure I use it twice a day EVERY day and really clean my skin, etc.) So there's always a brief improvement related simply to taking better care of myself. But I'm getting on a bit (49), and lazy, and I just can't be bothered with that palaver twice a day, so realistically, my bedtime routine usually consists of a thorough scrub with a cleansing wipe, and then some moisturiser before I fall into bed.
I'm rather less than halfway down the pot now (I've been using it for about a month) and four things have happened: my skin is much less red; I'm not getting ANY spots anywhere on my face; my skin is MUCH smoother and less bumpy; and my skin is fully moisturised now, so that I can much more successfully conceal the remaining redness with makeup which just didn't happen before - my nose just looked like a dark prosthetic with lovely makeup-coloured flakes on it. Super.
I'm so impressed with this cream, I'm trying really hard not to use exclamation marks and capital letters ALL (oops) the time, because I don't want to sound hysterical. I wish I'd taken a Before picture, so I could do an After one and really show you how it has improved. My nose is still redder than most people's - I've had rosacea a long time. But with results like these only a month in, I'm very hopeful that the condition will improve further. I'm going to buy the oil and see if that, applied at night, will make an even greater difference. And I'll review that, if it does.
To anyone living with the discomfort and embarrassment of rosacea (I'm so tired of hearing "Oooh I bet you like a drink or two, don't you?" when I'm virtually Tee-Total, and the Rudolph jokes around Christmas are so not funny), why not give this a try? The cream is light yet really creamy, not oily (it's easily absorbed), doesn't smell artificial at all, is great under makeup - and is inexpensive. Win, win, win.