Complicated skincare routines

what we are SOLD is the opposite of what we NEED

As a woman in her late 40s, I grew up with the simplest of skincare routines, mostly washing my face with water and nothing else as a teen. Clinique face soap came later - but I certainly wouldn’t be tempted to use it now, nor would recommend it to my teen kids. Nobody talked about skincare when I was a child and teenager, nor did we consider ourselves …