Skin care experts, can you advise please?

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If I am going to be much stricter/disciplined with a skin-care routine, and doing something like cleanse, vit C, hyaluronic acid, moisturiser, sunscreen in the morning, and evening routine cleanse, AHA alternating with retinol, followed by serum and moisturiser, where would any glycolic peel fit into this order please? Also, any recommendations for reasonably priced AHA/retinol that works would be useful, and strength of glycolic stuff. It sounds like a fairly formidable routine, and I am hoping I will actually stick to it. Im in my 50's BTW.

Will nobody think of the children my poor old skin! I realise that above is a great wall of text. Happy to have parts of it addressed, as Im a bit overwhelmed with info at the moment!

What’s made you arrive at the above routine? If you are using aha, Vit c & retinol why do you think you will need the peel also?

I think the routine you’ve suggested would need building up to over a period of time so you can assess what works and what doesn’t and indeed if you need to use all of the above.
I’d also think if you are worried about sticking to a routine then such a complex one is setting yourself up to fail from the start. I’d definitely start Low & slow. What’s your current routine?

Thanks Nice...there was a link a little while ago on here to some info sheets, which suggested it, but made no reference to the peel. Will the aha vit c and retinol do the peel thing for me then? I could google, but Im a bit info overloaded, and you sound like you know what you're talking about And i agree about the complicated routine. I am doing cleanse, gylcolic every other night, serum and suncream. Just cleanse, serum and moisturiser at night. Have ordered stuff to make vit C solution.

Suncream in the day, obs not at night...

That may have been on the fabulous ski car threads which I’d recommend you have a look at if you get chance, lots of helpful & very knowledgeable people on them.

It’s not so much that they do the same thing, they’re all different but it does depend on what your aims are. Vitamin c is a great ingredient for evening skin tone and brightening, but it’s not something I can use at all sadly, wait until you’ve got it established into your routine before you add anything else. Which serum and which Glycolic are you using?

I have been using Nip & Fab hydrating serum, about to start the Lidl one, as its got hyaluronic (sp) acid in it, at much less ££, but maybe in less quantity (?) and the pixie glow pads.