Beleive it or not, sometimes people who have an oily complextion actually have very dry skin, their body is just overcompensating for the major dryness by producing so much oil on the face. Trust me, I found out the hard way. I always had VERY oily skin and treated it as such. Oily skin facial soap, toner, light moisturizer, etc. It never got better and even got worse, and considering the rest of my body was as scaly as an alligator!!! The dermatologist told me that I actually had dry skin on my face, just like the rest of my body, and my face was overcompensating, but the rest of my body wasn't obviously. Once I started treating my face like dry skin, weird I know, the oilyness and shine stopped. I've since been diagnosed has having an allergy to a very common ingredient in most moisturizers and cosmetics, even supposed hypo-allergenic ones. The stories my allergiest has told me about people like myself with hypo-allergenic cosmetics are HILLARIOUS!! Anyway, I digress. What I do know is I use Dove Sensitive Skin soap, and a moisturizer called Vanicream. That's it, nothing else. My skin and face have never looked better. I no longer have scaly skin, and I don't constantly itch and need to apply moisturizer 3 times a day. I only use the moisturizer on my face, I use a regular cream (Body Butter from Basin) for my legs and body, but I don't need it every day. The dermatologist said that my very dry skin was getting more dried out by using a regular soap, and with the switch I've seen a definate difference. You should give it a try.
