Where do you buy your Retin A/Tretinoin cream from?

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That's about it really. Any UK sites?

That site looks dodgy as hell!

Echoing this above: please don't just put anything on your face, without consulting with a dermatologist, these drugs are prescription only, for a reason, they are so concentrated and should only be used under the supervision of a professional,

Sorry to bump this, but has anyone found any trusted UK sites yet?

It seems very hard to buy here in the UK.

My friend buys it from DrFox online. I haven't bought it myself, but I have bought other stuff from there - mainly private prescription drugs for my DS to take on his gap year - the practice nurse recommended them for anti-parasitic drugs and anti malarials, so it seems to be a legit site. Everything arrived the next day, properly labelled etc.

Why do you need to buy online? Just get the obagi one - tons of clinics sell it and give you the prescription for it.

ilovecherries - I have just looked on the website, and the closest that is sold is Isotrex, which is similar, but I don't think it is as effective as tretinoin.

Missbohan - I wasn't aware you could get them from GP's or Clinics? I heard they no longer provide in the UK? Can you confirm if yourself, or anyone else has done this lately? I heard it was hard to get hold of back in 2012 onwards in the UK.

Yeah i read this and was baffled by it - obagi tretinoin is retin a. And lots of clinics sell it - google obagi and check stockists near you. Don't know re GPs I never asked them. You can get different types of retinol if you go to a dermatologist - consultation more expensive but they probs sell cheaper retin a. I got mine last week in a clinic on harley street in london that is listed as a provider on obagi website. Don't buy off some website when you can just go and actually get it from a clinic - better to be safe than sorry.

Ps literally on the tube of obagi it says 'tretinoin' and then whatever strength you have been prescribed. Maybe certain brands stopped supplying in UK or something. Sometimes when I go to the states I get my obagi there and it is identical to the one I get here in London so I don't know about not being able to get it - confused but anyway yeah I get it all the time!

How much did you pay for it from the clinic, may I ask?

It seems so expensive to buy the branded obagi one.

Can't remember the breakdown cause i get a few things but i reckon about £70. Works for me though and i like that i know what i am getting. It probably can be got cheaper but i never bothered to check because i like the obagi one so don't have any more info other than that sorry

Thanks. £70 does seem a lot, I guess thats because it's a branded product.

Isotrex seems to be the alternative prescription gel that has replaced Retain A.

Isotrex = Isotretinoin
Retin A = tretinoin

Isotrex is around £8 and works the same way, so it seems a no brainer really? Anyone else have any opinions on this?

Hmm no idea - there are different types of retin a though. Why don't you just go and buy the £8 one wherever you have found it and see how you get on? Sounds great!

I may just do! Thanks so much for your help anyway : )

I get Aknemycin plus on prescription 0.025% tretinoin and erythromycin combo. For acne. Used to get retin A but it became unavailable about 3/4 years ago. No longer on prescribing list.

For those that were able to get a prescription in London, could you share the name of the Dermatologist?

DO NOT use isotretinoin. I literally signed up just to say this. I am a pharmacist and isotretinoin has many things that need to be monitored by a qualified doctor. For one it is extremely harmful to unborn babies, you have to go on a pregnancy prevention plan to use it. Get it prescribed by a doctor if you're that desperate, a prescription in the UK is only £8.40 and you'll get the correct medical advice you require.

Hello I have been using 0.5% tretinoid cream for about 2 weeks and I haven't gone red or peeled is this unusual

Mine didn't go red or peel either, thank goodness. I did get the odd spot (which is unusual for me) as I was phasing it in. It has worked really well. I've been using it almost 2 years now.

"DO NOT use isotretinoin. I literally signed up just to say this. I am a pharmacist and isotretinoin has many things that need to be monitored by a qualified doctor. For one it is extremely harmful to unborn babies, you have to go on a pregnancy prevention plan to use it. Get it prescribed by a doctor if you're that desperate, a prescription in the UK is only £8.40 and you'll get the correct medical advice you require."

• All Retin-A products have risks associated with unborn children not just Isotretinoin.

Tret is available over the counter in Spain and Greece thankfully. I see my derm every three months in clinic ( and most weekends out of clinic har har!) and she is fine with me sourcing my own tret - but she is a personal friend of mine so I suppose that might be why.

also @pandaeyes - most people are using it here for antiaging and the NHS will not prescribe this . Some trusts don't even prescribe it for acne.

I stock up in Portugal or Spain. It’s 3 Euro’s there! No way would I pay £70.

You do need to know what you are doing with it. I spent a year and a half on retinol first then moved to Retin-A twice a week. If you go slow then you don’t necessarily have the redness and peeling.

Also the farmacie Andorra site ships here.

I use a UK based website to order my Retin-A and it's always proved to 100% reliable for me. I don't think your allowed to put website links on this forum so put tretinoin online sales as one word in to Google and I think it’s the first result that comes up.