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Retin A/tretinion buyers from eBay please advise!

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houseHuntinginmanchester · 05/04/2016 01:45

Which seller do you all buy your dodgy Retin A/tretinion from on eBay?? Please do advise! Thanks

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Branster · 13/08/2019 14:09

Me neither - only after posting!

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princessTiasmum · 13/08/2019 11:08

Ahh,ok thank you,i never thought to check dates,

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Branster · 12/08/2019 23:26

I’m sorry princessTiasmum I don’t know anything about this seller. This is an older thread which popped up on here through spam I think so maybe Geoff doesn’t trade anymore?

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princessTiasmum · 12/08/2019 17:44

I have been looking for some tretinoin, and heard of Geoff , but how do i find him please

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Branster · 12/08/2019 14:22

Smile my lot is the same - wouldn’t be dragged around to look for something I want.
When you hear of friends going that way, ask them to buy you some. I now keep 20Euro at the ready in cash just in case I stumble across a friend going to Greece or I notice someone on Facebook is there I always ask. Good job it’s not haemorrhoids cream! As it is, it’s a long conversation trying to explain why I want it and what it does.
The Indian version is similar as far as I understand but I haven’t looked into it yet.
All things considered, Dermatica is a decent price if other options weren’t available.
Like you, I’ll stick toEurope for now.

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Delatron · 12/08/2019 13:05

Stock not stick. Bloody autocorrect!

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Delatron · 12/08/2019 13:05

Stash my family! No drag my family!

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Delatron · 12/08/2019 13:04

Branster It’s 3.50 euros for a 30g tube. So cheap! I was going to stash my family around all they pharmacies in Lisbon to stick up but they weren’t up for it!

Yes Dermatica is £19.99 per month! They tailor the cream to your needs but still. I think trying to stick up when in Europe is the answer. Will try the Andorra Pharmacy online too.

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Branster · 12/08/2019 11:46

Delatron I do a similar thing, first bought Airol from Greece when on holiday and now I ask friends who go to get it for me. 5Euro in Crete this summer, they only seem to keep a couple of tubes in stock at a time and no prescription needed. I stick to 0.5 it comes in 20g tube and I find 2 of them are enough for 1 year. How much is ketral and is it a bigger tube?
IHaveALooBrush, isn’t Dermatica a lot dearer?

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Delatron · 12/08/2019 11:16

I’ve heard Dermatica is good. I just bought some Ketral 0.05% in Portugal but first pharmacy said I needed a prescription. Second one I tried just handed it over! Should have bought more but didn’t want to push my luck..

Lots of people on here use the Andorra pharmacy online. I’ll look in to that when I run out.

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IhaveALooBrush · 12/08/2019 11:08

You can get it legitimately in the UK from dermatica.
No credit card fraud potential.
Other than that I used to order retirides from spanish pharmacies online thanks to google translate.

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Branster · 11/08/2019 23:33

Fluffycloudland77 my understanding from reading instructions was that contraceptives can be affected by an oral version of the product. It’s been a while since I read it, but I looked on various medical sites (Americans were quite informative) because I wanted to make absolutely sure using Tretinoin cream will not interfere with the pill.
Not that I’m now panicking or anything ....
Do you know anymore about this?

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houseHuntinginmanchester · 07/04/2016 14:04

mitzy well it feels like my entire face is peeling but upon proper inspection it's just my nose and chin mainly with a little bit of forehead peel.

Is that normal ?

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MitzyLeFrouf · 07/04/2016 10:44

Do you think you're putting a bit too much on? Or using it too often? If your entire face is peeling you're using too much.

I'd cut down the amount and switch to alternate nights.

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houseHuntinginmanchester · 06/04/2016 17:56

Thank you all for sharing your tret wisdom! BrewThanks

I've ordered fresh ones from Geoff but in the meantime am on week two of tretting again.

I look like fucking Freddy kreugar ! Big spots all over and now starting to peel all over too. Awful. Just awful. Feel like hiding away for six weeks but it's bastard half term and have to get out with the kids

And breathe.

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ThenLaterWhenItGotDark · 06/04/2016 08:21

Mine was healthandbeautyexpress but they seem to only have things like edible gold leaf and sex change pills at the moment Shock

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Fluffycloudland77 · 05/04/2016 21:49

You'd have to check the leaflet. I bet there's a PDF of the instructions on the net or you could google tretinoin drug interactions/contraindications and see what comes up.

Is it listed on the hrt leaflet? There should be a list of meds you should get advice about while taking it.

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BadlyDrawnBuoy · 05/04/2016 21:38

Thanks for getting back to me. There's no risk of pregnancy but presume it's ok to use if I'm on HRT?

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Fluffycloudland77 · 05/04/2016 21:20

0.025%. You need to be very careful with contraception, this is all in the patient info leaflet which you need to read all the way through.

Not just chuck it in the recycling like we normally do.

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BadlyDrawnBuoy · 05/04/2016 21:13

I've been using a Dermalogica cream with 0.5% Retinol for the past six months. Could one of you Retin A gurus please recommend what strength I would need to start on for Retin A (for wrinkles rather than acne). Thanks!

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Wolpertinger · 05/04/2016 17:22

Almost nobody uses 0.1% so it's supply and demand really.

Prices do make you wonder why anyone bothers with expensive skincare at all.

And yes you can tell it's the real thing if you start from scratch and get the redness, skin peeling, it calms down and then like magic your spots disappear and a few months later so does a wrinkle.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 05/04/2016 17:22

Yeah I think they've had a clampdown. Fuckers.

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MitzyLeFrouf · 05/04/2016 17:20

The first couple look like retin a, but a lot of the results are retinol creams which aren't as effective.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 05/04/2016 17:18
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