r/40and45PlusSkinCare

I turned 40 recently and I feel like someone swapped my face out overnight and didn't tell me. Like… where did this dryness come from? My pores look different. My skin texture changed. Things that worked for years just… stopped.

I grew up not really having a skincare routine at all — nobody in my family talked about it, and honestly I had other things to survive. So figuring this out in my late 30s and into 40 has been a whole education.

The biggest thing that caught me off guard was how much hydration started mattering. I used to be oily. Now I wake up looking like a crinkled paper bag if I skip moisturizer. Nobody warned me about that transition.

Also hormones doing WHATEVER they want. Breakouts + dry patches at the same time? Make it make sense.

For the women in their 40s here — what was the one skin change that hit you hardest and caught you completely off guard? And did you actually figure out how to deal with it, or are you still in the trenches like me? 😅

Hey all. 46 here and skin has lost its firmness and glow lately. Started low dose GHK-Cu a few weeks ago and seeing smoother texture plus better tone. Added a bit of MT2 for natural color without much sun.

Anyone else in their 40s+ try these and notice real improvements? Tips welcome. Thank

I'm 42 and living alone, and i’m trying to deal with wrinkles that are getting harder to ignore. everyone around me seems to have their peps figured out but i’m not even exaggerating when i say i’m running out of cash for rent trying to stay consistent with my skin routine. i really want to stick to high quality american made stuff because i care about what i'm putting in my body, but the cost for the vials and the shipping is legit making me go broke.

the total is basically the same as my rent at this point. i’m terrified i’m gonna be forced to stop entirely because i can’t swing these payments anymore, and i really don't want to lose the progress i've made. what are you guys doing to stay on it without losing your place? i’m trying to prioritize my health and my skin but i can’t go homeless over a few vials. smh.

Hello, I decided to try and find a website to buy peptides and I found this website called Alamo Peptides. I was wondering if anyone has bought from them because their peptides prices seem to be cheaper than other ones i’ve seen. Feel free to also tell me other places as well!

Hi! I really like want to incorporate ghk cu into my regimen. If you do use it can you please twll me your experience and potentially dm me your vendor? Ty!

Hi

I am looking to make my own 1% ghk-cu skin cream. I've done the math a few times and it seems a 30ml container will require 6 50ml bottles of ghk-cu.

- 1%= 300 mg = 6 vials

Seems costly for a home made cream.

Does anyone have any experience with this. Would love to hear how others do this

been on a bit of a skincare journey this past year and wanted to share bc i feel like a lot of the advice for older skin is about adding things and not enough about what to stop doing.

things i stopped doing and why:

foaming cleansers twice a day switched to just micellar water in the morning and a gentle cream cleanser at night, the twice daily foaming was stripping whatever moisture my post menopausal skin was managing to hold onto and starting the day already depleted

physical exfoliation my skin at 52 does not tolerate scrubs the way it did at 32, switched to a very low percentage lactic acid once a week and my skin is smoother and less reactive than it was when i was scrubbing it twice a week

skipping spf because it felt heavy found a mineral spf that i genuinley enjoy applying and now i do not skip it, the texture of the spf was the problem not the habit

expecting results in two weeks skin at this age changes slowly and heals slowly and products take longer to show results, i gave myself three month minimums before assessing anything and it genuinley changed my relationship with my routine

layering too many things at once post menopausal skin is sensitised and adding multiple new products at once just overwhelmed it every time, one new thing every six weeks is my rule now

chasing the same results as twenty years ago this sounds obvious but i genuinley had to stop comparing my skin now to photos of myself at 32 and start appreciating what my skin looks like when it is genuinley healthy for its age, different goal but actually achievable

started documenting everything in skinpalai bc my memory is just not reliable enough to track slow changes and my derm kept asking questions at appointments that i could not answer accurately, having twelve months of notes and photos to look back through has genuinley changed how i understand my own skin at this age.

what have u stopped doing that made ur skin better?