new to vit C and retinol - pls rec yours

[Anonymous]

Skinceuticals ce ferulic - I have tried other brands but keep coming back to the gold standard.

Most people can tolerate retin A if they proceed slowly and build up tolerance for it. And like pp said, don’t introduce vitamin c and retin products at the same time. Unfortunately my skin can’t handle retin A so I use OTC retinol, also Skinceuticals brand. I started lower but I’m now up to their 1.0 immediately followed by a moisturizer.

[Anonymous]

so how does the regime go? wash face in am(what do you use?), then vit C, then spf, night-wash face and just tretinoin or do you also then put some moisturizer, almost 50, dry skin, neck sag, more sag than wrinkles...not happy with my mirror HELP

[Anonymous]

I SWEAR by La Prarie Serum White Caviar. I know it may be out of most of this demographics price range, but it is works. AMAZINGLY. Even my seem started using if after she saw my skin.

[Anonymous]

even my DERM it should read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:so how does the regime go? wash face in am(what do you use?), then vit C, then spf, night-wash face and just tretinoin or do you also then put some moisturizer, almost 50, dry skin, neck sag, more sag than wrinkles...not happy with my mirror HELP

AM: splash face with water, Vit c, moisturizer, then SPF

PM: wash face (and remove makeup if needed), tret, moisturizer

Tret is very drying so you have to follow with moisturizer.

[Anonymous]

Prescription tretinoin cream

the Ordinary C powder - better results with this than I had with 3 years of Skinceuticals!

TO’s squalene oil added to the C powder and moisturizer mixture is also key for me year round

[Anonymous]

I use Skinceuticals vit C and I get my tretinoin (0.5) from Apostrophe

But what you REALLY need is a few IPL sessions (laser). That will take care of many of the sun spots, freckles, and redness. Lasers sound scary, but it isn’t bad at all. It takes about 20 min and you are slightly pink for maybe an hour afterward. Then you look totally fine. The freckles and sun spots will get darker over the following week and then flake off at about 7-10 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cerave vitamin c serum is great. Don’t invest too much in vit c serum as you have to replace it every 4-5 months.

But word of warning- don’t start both or you will damage your skins moisture barrier. Introduce the retinol very, very slowly (one a week the first month, twice a week the 2nd month, etc.)as putting too many actives on your face at once is a recipe for disaster. GL!

I liked how vit c made my skin look, but I broke out from it and stopped. But I was also using retinol (otc Roc products) at evening. Started both products around same time, so now I’m wondering if that was the cause of irritation. I might give The Ordinary powder a try, it’s getting good press here!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I SWEAR by La Prarie Serum White Caviar. I know it may be out of most of this demographics price range, but it is works. AMAZINGLY. Even my seem started using if after she saw my skin.

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