I’m not sure if you’re the kind of person who likes to hear when people find products that really work for them, but IF YOU ARE…

Well. I found some. Seriously. I did. I don’t even know.

(No, I wasn’t asked to endorse these, and no one’s paying me to do so. Unless you want to. Link to your right. Ha!)

Here’s a list:

Weleda Skin Food. Okay, if you look at the website, it’s all USE IT ON YOUR ELBOWS, IT’S SUPER RICH.

Well.

I use it on my face. The reason I use it on my face is because I saw Charlie Green and Pat Wexler recommend it in a magazine as a rich solution for weird, dry facial skin.

I didn’t know I had weird, dry facial skin until I got my first facial in November and she told me I was not, as I had believed from the dawn of time, Oily. Well, my nose was. But you shouldn’t moisturize based on your nose, apparently. Let it be what it is. Worry about your cheeks.

Ahem.

This stuff is for dry skin, absolutely, and it’s quite thick, almost like an ointment. I warm it up in my hands and pat it on my cheeks, eyes, forehead and chin. (My nose can go fly a kite.)

I get less breakouts (the pansy in it — heh heh heh — works beautifully on any complications), I stay glowy all day, and it smells like fresh oranges.

Woo! I’m a big fan of things that smell good, and I’ll stop using a product if it bugs me in some aesthetic sense.

But Skin Food has me for life! And it’s cheaper than the Origins and Mac and Clinique stuff I was using before. MUCH cheaper.

Boots No. 7 Restore and Renew Beauty Serum. This stuff is sold out in the UK, and I haven’t even SEEN it in Canada, though people claim it’s here. Women are going bonkers for it because it works like a dream on fine lines and unevenness, and FAST.

Not that I have fine lines. STOP STARING AT MY PHOTO.

(Hey, I’m 33, and worked outside in the sun for three months a year from the time I was 15, on top of skiing in the winter. It’s bound to happen.)

(I’m also mildly neurotic about my skin.)

Now, you may have noticed that I live in Canada, and may be wondering how I got my hands on this stuff. The answer is Eric.

Dear, sweet Eric, who is enough of a man to stand in CVS in San Diego talking on his phone about the various serum options in front of him until he and I figured out which one was the jackpot. And then to bring two tubes of magic to me in December. That’s right, he’s practically a saint. And he was already most of the way there when he switched to a Mac this year.

There are many reasons to love this kid. He is our Friend for the Ages. But I digress.

This STUFF WORKS. I look more even, more fresh, more smooth… and not just in a Billy Dee Williams kind of way.

It’s also not too pricey, especially compared to the serums marketed by the Big Kids on the skincare block.

L’Oreal Vive Pro Nutri-Gloss Shampoo/Conditioner. I have a small issue with expensive shampoo. Not as in, I OBJECT, but more along the lines of I BOUGHT TOO MUCH OF IT FROM 1987 to 2008.

That’s right.

21 years of Bumble and Bumble and Phytologie and Kerastase and Joico and Redken and on and on and on.

Yeah, I did some Neutrogena and Pantene and (so help me) Pert Plus in there, too, but I was pretty stuck on the pricey stuff because it makes your hair feel like buttah.

Then I came across this stuff and WHOA. In one use, the state of my medium-long, superfine, colour-treated hair was more shiny, more soft, and more manageable. Unreal.

Catherine is also using it on her super-thick, colour-treated blonde hair, and it’s doing the same things (she uses a slightly different formulation.)

I’m totally impressed. And it’s cheap like BORSCHT!

Well, that’s what I’ve got for you today.

Buy these things, change your head.

Wow, pharmaceutical companies should buy that slogan from me tout de suite!