Tretinoin users - at what age did you start?

[thisenglishlife]

And did you have lines, wrinkles, pigmentation, etc when starting or did you start before as prevention?

Well now at 43 with retinol & I use dermatica 0.025% with hydroquinone from acne scarring & hyperpigmention from birth control.

I’m keen to preserve as much collagen as possible before menopause takes 30% of it away so I use retinol a couple of times a week alternated with the dermatica.

I wear sunblock daily though so I don’t have much photodamage. I think the whole point of prevention is to start young and keep going though.

I’ve used tretonoin as well about 8 years ago but I never got out of the purge stage, my skin really hated tret bought abroad mail order so I wonder if it was genuine tret?.

Sounds like a good routine, the tret is dermatica and what is the other retinol product that you use?

The ordinarys 0.2% retinol. Literally two drops cover my face and neck, another drop for the chest area.

I've just started tret, I'm 40. I'm on the 0.5% from Dermatica and will move up to the 1% next month. I use it every night and haven't had any issues but I do seem to have the skin of a rhino!

I haven't got any deep wrinkles yet but I am beginning to get fine lines so it's a mixture of preventative and treatment. My main reason for starting is I've lost quite a bit of weight and developed jowls and a bit of loose skin on my neck and I wanted to see if tret could improve that before I forked out for fillers/Botox.