Medical Grade skincare

[Macey78]

Am 43 and am still navigating my way through a skincare routine. Didn't think I needed much of one till recently!

What is medical grade skincare. Where can you get it from. Do you use it? Does it help? How much does it cost? Is it worth the money?

I don't know if this is what you mean but I use skin+me which is a prescription for Tretinoin, you can use my link to get a free trial. There's also dermatica, which is very similar. My prescription through them is for tret at 0.024%, Azelaic acid 4% and Niacinamide 4%, I was on a higher percentage of tret but found my skin couldn't tolerate it. I've found them really good, you take a photo of your skin and tell them your skin goals and they prescribed accordingly. They've just also introduced a SPF 50 and it's the best I've ever used, it doesn't leave a white cast of leave my already oily skin shiny.

www.skinandme.com/?promocode=LAURENS5YP3

I'm not sure what the price us at the moment I signed up when they were starting out about 2 years ago and the price has risen for new customers, but if you refer a friend by using the link like ive posted you get £10 off your next month so I've managed to make it cheaper that way quite a few times. I would say it's worth it. I haven't seen miracles happen, my skin has always been good but I feel like this is what I need to do to keep my skin this way.

Medical grade skincare is just a marketing term and usually jus means brands that are primarily sold at aesthetic clinics like Obagi or Skinceuticals. There's no such thing as medical grade ingredients, or higher percentages of active ingredients that are somehow only allowed to be sold by these clinics as much as the marketing infers it, it's just a way to justify a huge markup. For certain treatments a lot of clinics will force you to buy an accompanying regime and claim it isn't safe if you don't

Saying that, some of these products are good (but not all) so no need to dismiss it entirely but you can usually get the same for a lot less money if you know what you're buying.

Thanks both really useful. That's it I have no idea what to get so need to go and do more research.