Anti-Aging Skin Care can be Tricky when you have Oily and/or Sensitive Skin

[See Kristy’s Letter in yesterday’s post.

Clinique Youth Surge SPF 15 is definitely light on sun protection for a day cream. With both Youth Surge and Clinique Zero Gravity Repairwear Lift, you are probably using the versions formulated for combination oily to oily skin.

Even so, I suspect that Youth Surge may be too rich and creamy for your oily skin based on the contents of its very lengthy (66) ingredient list. As well, with so many ingredients, the likelihood of an adverse skin reaction such as redness increases.

Clinique Zero Gravity Repairwear Lift for oily skin has a slightly shorter list of ingredients (57). Unfortunately, Denatured Alcohol is seventh on the list and while it is likely included to dry your oily skin, it also is an oxidant which causes free radical damage.

Repairwear Lift has some very nice inclusions, especially Retinol and Acetyl Hexapeptide-3. Both the Clinique creams have excellent antioxidant cocktails and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend the dry to dry combination skin versions for people with less sensitive skin than yours.

Atopalm
Note that Atopalm MLE Cream is on my Affordable Top Ten Anti-Aging Skin Care List with the special note “Excellent for sensitive skin, rosacea and eczema”.

I would have no qualms recommending that you give Atopalm a try. I believe it would be better for your sensitive skin.

Read about The Bottom Line for Oily Sensitive Skin tomorrow.

Tags: oily skincare, sensitive skincare, Atopalm review, Peter Thomas Roth review, anti-aging skincare, skin reactions, UV protection, free radical damage