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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of people seem to be using Vitamin C serums. Does anyone have a specific brand recommendation?[/quote]
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I have a biochem background (though a lawyer now) so I like to get into the weeds of ingredient/interactions/sourcing of different products, and have tried several.  (Vitamin c serum helps with brightening/collagen production/anti ox protection and I find it to be a perfect complement to tretinoin).  The most effective will be a L ascorbic acid or a derivative.  The two I love are skinceuticals vitamin C (quite expensive) and Cerave (cheap drugstore).  But of course with all products, ymmv.  I also liked drunk elephant and Sunday Riley ok but neither was any better than cerave[/quote]

NP. Thanks for posting this! Which moisturizers do you recommend? [/quote]

Hi!  I like talking about my skincare routine, haha.  My specific skin concerns are fine lines around eyes, dullness and clogged pores.  I use a combo of moisturizers to “plump” up my skin and to protect the skin barrier because of the active products I use.  Tretinoin is the center of my routine and (alternating) I also use surface exfoliants: AHA acid (glycolic) to address texture/dullness and a BHA acid (salicylic) to address clogged pores.  I use very gentle acids (caudalie brightening glycolic peel mask & Paula’s choice bha lotion exfoliant).

The moisturizers I use nightly (esp to address reactions to tretinoin) are: 
-barrier serum: MA:NYO Bifida Biome Complex Ampoule Serum
-barrier moisturizer: AESTURA ATOBARRIER365 Cream with Ceramides
OR 
-Skin Fix 
-Also, when I first started using tret, or if I’ve been in the sun a lot that day, I use La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Balm B5, Healing Ointment

In the morning, I use: 
-La Roche-Posay Toleriane Double Repair UV SPF Moisturizer
-cerave eye repair cream

Also, I still love the cerave peptide night cream and while it’s not as potent as what I’m using now, sometimes I’ll put the peptide cream on during the day if I’m WFH and taking a bathroom break, maybe that’s weird, anyways…

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I don’t believe tret does anything - I’ve seen no changes on my middle aged face and it’s done nothing for my teen with acne. Why does everyone think it’s the magic elixir?[/quote]

Because it is proven to prevent aging. But it's also playing the long game. My skin looks great in middle age in no small part because of tret but I've been on the tret, vitamin C, and religious use of high SPF sunscreen since middle sschool. You can't expect miracles starting that regime at 45.[/quote]

DP. How old are you? I don’t remember anyone using any of that in middle school. It was Nivea or a bar of Dial soap. [/quote]

I'm 44. Acne as a teen so always worked with a dermatologist. [/quote]

Signs you grew up wealthy….[/quote]

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