This is a very important video for two main reasons.
Number one, retinols retinol acids.
They work so well.
They're proven they're studied to do so many things.
They help with brown spots say, tighten the skin, improve the
appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Um, they help thicken the dermis.
So people with thinner.
They help make the skin better, more resilient, more robust help
with the lasted in college and all the things we're trying to do with
expensive treatments and devices.
And you can do it with skincare.
The second reason this is very important is it's the number one product that people
struggle with to titrate on their face.
In other words, to get the dose right, to not use too much to not use too little.
And remember I said with this video, it's important because I
want you to maintain it, not just start the retinol, but maintain it.
So many people stop using them and not using.
Is the worst thing you can do for most people when it's that beneficial.
So maintaining it is as important as starting.
It.
Let's dive in to my five tips.
Number one is when to use it.
So a lot of people are going to be worried about sun sensitivity.
So if they're on the retinol, they take it in the.
If the sun or the UV rays hits their face, will it cause people to look
older will a damage the skin, will it negate the effects of the retinol?
It does not increase sun sensitivity the retinols, but when they
cause inflammation, then the skin is vulnerable and that's
why many people use it at night.
I think it's good to use it at night.
I think it makes.
Because people aren't then putting sunscreen and makeup on top of it.
So the tip number one is when to use it.
I think it is prudent to use at night, but often not for the reasons that people
think that they are using it at night, but it is the best time to start using it.
And then number two, in a sense has to do with layering before we started the.
Because a lot of people are on other products.
Let's talk about my top go-to products for skin seal, understand why I'm talking
about how to layer this retinol to hide.
I'm an advocate for my patients and they all are on this.
Despite getting microneedling, radio frequency treatments, IPLS resurfacing.
Oh fair.
All those treatments.
I have them on skincare.
That includes a retinol to hide.
I'm going to tell you why right now, the height in a minute, I'm
a big proponent of growth factors.
This is on judges role or growth factor system.
All my patients.
Are on growth factor skincare either post-procedure but also for
maintenance, also alpha hydroxy acid creams, big proponent of those.
They work great with retinols as do the growth factors.
And then we get into the moisturizers.
I like a lot of oils and a deep moisturizing product.
Like my ultra moisture.
For some of you, you like Sarah mites lungs, you have.
Moisturizing product.
That's what I think of for my patients when I'm layering.
Now, my number two tip has to do with when do you put it on?
So cleanse the skin with a gentle cleanser, unless someone's very
acne prone, you can then of.
but your cleanser can be a pH neutral to the skin anywhere from five to six gentle.
And I rather be on the moisturizing side.
Uh, I do like ones with a lipid, such as on geologist cleanser.
Um, you have your own cleanser, certainly put in the comments
before and below and share your best cleanser, but a gentle cleanser is key.
Now, when do you put your retinol?
And we're talking nighttime.
I am a proponent when you're starting the retinol.
If you've never had them before you start with your moisturizer, like.
It would be a moisturizer that you're using.
Doesn't have to be that expensive, whether it's Sarah, mine's
something like my alter moisture.
Look at my video on that.
Look at some of the ingredients I have matched them up with what you
have or other products that you might like to use, but moisturize
first, leave that on your skin for.
Two to three minutes and then you're going to apply the retinol.
And while we're talking about retinol, this is the one that I liked that I use.
And I tell my patients to use.
If they're not on a retinol WIC acid, this is written aldehyde.
So there's go, you're gonna have three main choices.
Uh, retina.
Uh, retina aldehyde or a prescription strength like retinol acid, the
retinol converts to the strongest one, the retinol acid in two steps,
two steps, the retinol and the height is in the middle and it takes one
step to get to the strongest form.
This is retinol light it's Avinay and I buy most patients
taller, tolerate this very well.
And so why not start with something that is only one step
away from the strongest product?
Um, and you can use whichever one you like, and if you're very sensitive
skin, start with a retinol, but my tip number two was cleanse moisturize, wait
a few minutes and then put your retinol product on that acts like a buffer.
So that.
Too sensitive.
Tip number three.
What areas of the face should you avoid?
Especially if you're starting out the under.
Uh, the lower face.
Cause whenever we're resurfacing, the skin CO2 lasers are at microneedling.
This is or chemical peels, particularly this is the area that's going to be.
The bugger.
This area is going to get prolonged and inflammation.
It's going to have prolonged redness.
And if the patients don't take care of this lower area after appeal,
they'll get flaking, redness, and even possibly hyperpigmentation.
So the under.
The lower face around the nose to the chin and then the neck.
Those are areas you might avoid a bonus here.
Why you might avoid the under eye too.
It can cause dry eye retinoid products and cause dry eye, they
can affect the, my Bowman glands.
And those are the glands that produce the tears in the eye.
And so the last thing you want.
Is stop or retinol for the face because you're getting ice irritation.
So avoid that altogether.
You can add those areas back over four to six weeks when you know,
you're tolerating the retinol.
So the under.
This, the area lower base, I would just go lightly.
And then you could avoid the neck to start, but you do want to treat
the lower piece because that's some of the thinnest skin in the body.
And that's where people come in complaining.
Number one of aging, they'll say doc, and I'm talking 45 plus 40 plus my lower face.
Doesn't look good.
My upper face looks great.
It's in congruent.
So you have to, this is a great area for the retinol, but you have to be careful.
Another bonus trick here.
If this area you think might be sensitive, you can then after the retinol, wait a
couple of minutes and double moisturized.
So your moisturized retinol wait two minutes, and then
you put moisturizer on top.
It's like a double buffer.
So the next step we're going on to number four.
How often should you use it?
I'd say this is the number one area where people question it and they go wrong.
On average, people are going to start two to three times a week, a
sensitive skin person start using it on one day, skip the next two
or three, and then go another day.
That will be.
Twice a week, three times a week, max, to start and do that for a
couple of weeks, two, three weeks.
Don't take it for one day and go, oh, I can now use it every
day because he tolerated one day.
This is a marathon.
It's not a sprint.
Meaning we're in this for the long-term.
This is something you're probably going to be.
For the rest of your life, because it will help prevent you from getting,
having to get other procedures and expensive procedures done.
So that's how I would do it.
Now.
Let's say you two or three weeks into it.
You're like, I need more effect.
I'm getting no redness, no peeling, no flaking.
I don't have that wind burn feel.
Those are all signs of inflammation.
Then you, what do you do from there?
Well, you stop the step two in your layering.
So you cleanse.
And your retinol is going to be your first step.
You don't need the moisturizer or your moisturizers, your last step.
So you stop the first buffering step.
That means that this product is going to go.
This retinol will go directly.
To your cleanse skin.
And if you really want to step it up, you leave it moist because
that will help the absorption.
This goes through the layers of skin, the most common one that's disrupted the
most superficial layer called the stratum corneum needs to be in homeostasis for
your skin to function very important.
People don't understand the importance of the stratum
corneum until you strip it off.
And we do that all the time.
With procedures that I do, like fractionated our app and lasers.
So that would be a tip.
Now the next and last one is use it consistently.
Skincare is no good if you don't use it.
So you have to use these steps.
If you're super sensitive, you take the steps that I've told you to decrease
the amount, use your moisturizer.
If you're not getting any effect.
Now this is the key point.
They say, it's not working.
I'm not getting the effect they need.
I say really affect or not something not working is based upon one key factor.
And that is expectation.
So some comes in with a saggy neck, a saggy face and they need a
facelift and they go on something, oh, the retinol didn't work.
Didn't work for what did it help with glow?
That helped fine lines.
Yeah.
But it didn't, my jowls are still there.
This is not going to do.
Ever.
So it doesn't melt jowls.
So w look for your end effect and what that's going to be.
If you're, if you're using too much or on that border is a wind burn feel.
If you're getting the wind burn burn, feel you back off a little bit.
That means your dose is good by wind burn.
Meaning you feel the wind on your face.
It's just a little sensitive.
That's the telltale sign.
If you're not getting.
Effecting you've done those things.
Then you need to move up to a retinol Vic acid.
And I do move most of my patients up to a retinol acid.
Uh, and that would be your pure form that has needs no conversion.
It's active, ready to work.
If you can emote a little bonus, tip what I'm doing.
A lot of them, there's a product called and I have a video.
But it's in growth factors.
I use that for people.
I tell them, that's the only thing you really need under your eye.
It's a plant-based type of a retinol product.
And in studies has, have had similar outcomes or retinols.
And that would be something that if you cannot take this anywhere in the face,
but Coachella is something to look into.
And if you're might as well use growth factors with , it
will be your one stop shopping.
The only other thing you might need.
Would be other than your moisturize would be an H because it exfoliates.
So.
Hopefully helps you get started with your retinol.
If you have other questions, please ask retinols growth factors.
This is a Derma roller with growth factors, which is amazing.
Cause it gets deeper absorption for those that want to do a little
more and want to step it up.
But it doesn't cause irritation.
Uh, home Derby rollers, great with growth factors and AIG, and
alpha-hydroxy absolutely key.
And with those products, very simple, doesn't have to be more complex than that.
You can have beautiful, healthy, glowing, vibrant skin.
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