Midlife Skin, Renewed: Menopause Skincare Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe skin through perimenopause and menopause, beginning with the changes nobody warned them about: tightness by lunchtime, redness that worsened each month, crepey necks and hands, acne in their late forties, crawling itch, chin hairs, and makeup that stopped sitting right. Writers describe what they tried and how it went: pared-back routines of three products, fragrance identified as the culprit, tretinoin started in their sixties, vitamin C, and sunscreen and hats they wished they had used earlier. There are the treatments with mixed reports — HRT, which helped some skin and not others, microneedling, peels, collagen powders with little visible change, and decisions against injectables — and the mistakes, including a burned face, a lightening cream that caused damage, coconut oil and a hair dye reaction. Contributors include women in surgical or medical menopause, on cancer drugs, with returning eczema, melasma and rosacea, in hot climates and while fasting. Later chapters cover hot flushes under a headscarf, stopping smoking and drinking less, a beauty counter veteran's view, and skin long after the last period.

Who it's for

For women in perimenopause or beyond whose skin has changed, those wondering whether HRT or a prescription will help, and anyone buying for a mother, sister or friend.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 233 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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