Skin Care Series: Olay Total Effects Nourishing Cream Cleanser

This is my skin care routine. Yep all that stuff goes on my face every morning and night. I am a strong believer in good skin care and that taking care of your skin is the best beauty investment you can make. After all, the best makeup in the world won't do a thing if it's applied to a crappy canvas.

So I thought I would share with you, through a series of posts, what I do to keep my skin in top form.

Let me start by saying a few things:

• This is not a sponsored post. All of these products were paid for with my hard earned dollars and all of the opinions (as always) are my honest to goodness feelings about these products.
• I am 32 and I have dry skin. I get the occasional hormonal zit here and there but mostly I am fortunate to be zit free. 
• I am trying to be as proactive as humanly possible regarding anti-aging, without breaking the bank and spending too much time in the bathroom.
• These are the products that work for me. I'm not saying, nor am I guaranteeing these will work for you. BUT if we have similar skin types and concerns, maybe give them a try.

With that out of the way. Let's get started.

I wash my face every morning and night with a creamy cleanser. I find that foaming and gel cleansers are just too drying for my skin. I have tried Cetaphil, Purity and a couple of others formulated for sensitive skin, but they don't work for me. But this amazing cleanser is my holy grail. It is the Olay Total Effect Nourishing Cream Cleanser. It fights 7 signs of aging and gently cleanses my skin and removes makeup without over drying and stripping my face of the oils it needs to keep it together. I have been using this for over 5 years now and any time I try something different I can tell a big difference. My skin is red, dry, flaky and gross. Then I go back to this and within one wash it's all good in the hood.

There is a slight smell but it's not perfumey (which I think is totally inappropriate for any skin care product). And once I wipe this off with a wash rag the smell is gone.

Sometimes I use a makeup remover wipe if I had on a crap ton of makeup that day or some weird long wearing weirdness happening on my face but 99.99% of the time this is the cleanser I use.

Next in the series is serums, treatments and eye cream. Tell me in the comments below what your favorite cleanser is!