Tretinoin: what moisturizer do you use
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Anonymous
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Over time your skin will adjust to Tretinoin. I use 1% almost every day and have been for years. But the first few months were rough.
That said I swear by Drunk Elephant Marula Oil for moisture. |
Anonymous
| I use it every third night to help with the dryness |
Anonymous
| If your face is stinging like that your tret strength is too high or you're using it too often. It did this to me the first year because I started on 0.1% and tried to use it everyday and anything with ingredients just made it worse. Literally blistered my skin. Now, I use .05 every night with Cerave moisturizer with the ceramides and hyaluronic acid. |
Anonymous
| Vanicream sensitive daily moisturizer is the only thing that doesn’t make my skin burn. I sometimes mix in a little extra oil (squalane now but I’ve used argan too) to make it, well, oilier. |
Anonymous
| Vanicream in the tub. |
Anonymous
THIS is what my derm said also. and on dry skin |
Anonymous
| I can only do the “sandwich” method (wash, moisturizer, wait, tret, wait, moisturizer)— I cannot put tret directly on my skin. I’ve been on it for 3 years, 2-3 times a week. It took about 3-4 months to adjust. I also cannot do it every day or my skin is irritated. |
Anonymous
| Oh and as moisturizer, I like COSRX— it’s pricier but worth it to me— and EltaMD for sunscreen during the day. I have been through a lot of moisturizers and sunscreens and they’re either not moisturizing enough or irritate me. COSRX + EltaMD + tret is pretty much my whole routine. |
Anonymous
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For bacne spots and scarring.
Apply tret at night. As per your tolerance - Wash with any mild benzoyl peroxide wash. Dry Apply aloe vera gel based moisturizer (Patanjali Kesar-chandan Soundarya gel), Dry. Apply 0.5% Trent, Dry Apply the aloe vera gel again. Dry Use oil of Olay moisturizer original. Mornings and other days - Wash with any mild benzoyl peroxide wash. Dry Apply aloe vera gel based moisturizer (Patanjali Kesar-chandan Soundarya gel), Dry Use oil of Olay moisturizer with Sunscreen. |