itchy skin/cakey makeup

[mbake]

I have oily skin. I've really been working on finding the best skin care routine for me. I have two questions. First, my face always itches, regardless of whether I am wearing makeup or just noisturizer. Anyone else experience this? Second, my makeup cakes soooo bad. It is much worse when I wear a matte finish foundation. What tips do you have toavoid cake face? I have been exfoliating and moisturizing like crazy and it doesn't help.

[skincare2makeup]

For your skin concerns, you should consider using more gentle, sensitive skin products or even switch to natural, organic products (like using aloe vera or raw, unfiltered honey as masks to calm irritation). You might be allergic to certain ingredients in your skincare and/or makeup. If you find your foundation caking or breaking up, you should use a charcoal or any clay-based mask before applying makeup to pull out the oil from your skin, then use a pore-minimizing primer in the areas where you produce the most oil and try applying a thinner layer of your favorite full-coverage foundation. Set your face with a good setting powder. I highly recommend the IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Pores Pressed Finishing Powder. Also, use a good setting spray like the Urban Decay All-Nighter or the Skindinavia Makeup Finishing Spray. Throughout the day, you should lightly blot your face with oil-absorbing sheets and touch up with the powder.

[Anonymous]

maybe change your moisturizer and the makeup you are using

[ellie50]

Suggest that you get at the cause of the itchiness - determine if it is caused by diet, allergies or skin product ingredients. A dermatologist would be the first line of helping to determine if it is diet or allergies.

For skin products, there is one ingredient I simply itch like crazy from - it is called bismuth oxychloride.  It's mostly in foundations, primers, eye shadows but it can be in some skin-care products.  Some people are sensitive to a lot of mica in a product.  Too many silicone ingredients (also common in some moisturizers) also make me itch.

"cake" face - avoid heavy full coverage foundations and those with a lot of silicones in them.  I stick to lightweight foundations and use concealer over areas that need more fuller coverage,  and only light application of any type of powder (blotting, setting, finishing) as powders can also cause caking. I avoid putting more powder on for oiliness and instead using blotting sheets.

[Tanushree]

I use too faced born this way. I had same problem and this one doesn't feel caky

[lovinglips4]

Try using an oil to remove makeup like almond or olive oil. Coconut will work well too but if you are itchy coconut can sometimes aggravate the skin. A bit of castor oil with water or witch hazel works well to calm the skin and remove makeup. Using oil on oily skin won't make you increase the oil it will help to control it. Think of it as curing like with like. When you use products that curb oil or "control" it more often it makes your skin increase the oil because it feels stripped. There are many terrific cleansing oils to choose from a few I like are; Sunday Riley , drunk elephant , tarte , farsali just to name a few.