I think I must be allergic to an ingredient in Simple products?
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I have used Simple light moisturiser for years but this past wee while every time i apply it on my face my eyes start to get watery and stingy and i end up with a headache.
As soon as i wash it all off ironically with simple soap it all calms down.
Simple seem to keep adding more ingredients into their products and am just wondering if there is an ingredient or more than one that i am allergic to?
I first started to use their products back as early as 1981 when there were very little ingredients added.I never had any trouble back then at all so i am taking it bad that i am having trouble with the moisturiser and also their face cleansing wipes are the same with me.I use their shampoo and that seems to be okay with me.
I have a sensitive skin and that is why I use their products.
As soon as i wash it all off ironically with simple soap it all calms down.
Simple seem to keep adding more ingredients into their products and am just wondering if there is an ingredient or more than one that i am allergic to?
I first started to use their products back as early as 1981 when there were very little ingredients added.I never had any trouble back then at all so i am taking it bad that i am having trouble with the moisturiser and also their face cleansing wipes are the same with me.I use their shampoo and that seems to be okay with me.
I have a sensitive skin and that is why I use their products.
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Yes I know. But I am disappointed that I am having trouble with simple as i have used it for a couple of decades.
Just wondered if anybody else had had any trouble like me?
Yes I will thanks.:)
I've used Simple on and off since I was a teenager and I definitely think they're not as simple as they used to be but I've not had any adverse reactions
This happened to me with Boots lip salve sticks. Used them for years and then, with no obvious reformulation, the top layer of skin on my lips started to flake off! I now use Neutrogena, Labello, etc.
I did email them last night and sent it off but just after i had done so I remembered latter last year that I had already emailed them through their website and I never had a reply from them. Still no harm in trying again.
Yes I would agree with you there. Before I tried Simple back in 1981 just when Simple products first came out on to the market I was using Oil of Ulay. I had used it for quite a few years then developed a slight reaction to it. Little red itchy patches on my chin and my face started to feel nippy.
Mum also used it and she was fine but I remember one day during her lunch break from work she popped into a store in town and saw these little boxes of Simple with wee trial bottles inside. A cleanser, toner and moisturiser. so she bought one of them and brought it home for me to try.Loved it and with using these products my skin improved and just stuck to using these things for years but mostly it was just the moisturiser I ended up using.
My elderly mother bought one of Simple's heavier moisturisers and it brought her out in a lot of spots. Her skin has got sensitive as she has got older and thought she would try their heavier moisturiser but she says never again though like me she uses their bar soap in the shower and that is fine.
Yes there are so many chemical ingrediants included now. When I think back to when I first used simple products in their white bottles with a brown lid and the very minium of ingrediants were included.
One of my daughters looked at the list of ingrediants listed on my bottle of moisturiser and she said that the only difference with Simple was that it wasn't coloured and didn't have any fragnance added. Other than that they used the very same ingrediants as any other makes of skin care.
I guess Simple are bringing all these products out boasting on the boxes how many ingrediants are included because they are in it to make money. Shame because they have lost what Simple products used to be about.
Yes the face wipes burn my skin as well and give me sore eyes no matter how careful I am not to put either the face wipes or the moisturiser near my eyes it still doesn't help.
Sadly it is time I moved on and looked for another skin product.
Have you tried E45 products as they are very good and very mild. Boots carry the range.
I haven't tried E45 because it contains lanolin and i have read that that is an known irritant.
No I haven't tried any of Lush products but have been into their shop in our shopping centre and what puts me off in there is the highly scented smell that seems to surround their products. One of my two daughters can't go into Lush because it goes for her sinusus.
So true , I took Nurofen all my adult life and one fine day aged 54 I took it and I had a massive anaphylaxis , came out in huge weals and swelled up and couldnt breathe needing intubation and ventilation .
What about cetaphil? I don't think their moisturiser contains lanolin.
I never go into that shop because of the smell of it. I'd need to wear a gas mask in there :eek:
I love walking past Lush but don't often go into the shop because the products are expensive.
Walking past Subway makes me wretch because of the salsa sauce smell . .
I find the Simple products quite oily or greasy which is not good for my skin type..
My daughter had the exact same reaction after they started adding stuff.
I haven't tried the face cream (I use Aldi), but when they brought the range out, I got a lot of samples in a tin as a freebie and they were all very good. Sadly, it looks as if only the hand cream and moisturiser survived.
Just looking round Simple website and found this. mind I didn't realise that simple had been around for so long as it was the early eighties that I first heard of it.
But looking at the old simple I would love to see a list of the ingrediants they put into their products back then and compare it with what is in simple today.
My daughter says all these preservatives they have added is to keep the moisturiser from going off. But surely if that was the case then what about before when they didn't have all these fancy ingrediants added?
http://www.simple.co.uk/Simple-Story/timeline.aspx
No i haven't tried the Boots Expert Range will but will look at it next time I'm in their store. thanks.:)
It certainly works - though getting my doctor's surgery to prescribe two tubs a month is a problem.