Retinol purging?

[ForTealBee]

My entire skincare routine is the rhode skincare routine, aside from a retinol in the evening and an SPF in the morning.

I’ve been using the Byoma sensitive retinol oil for months now without any issues, but I decided I wanted to “step up” slightly as I felt I had hit the ceiling for what it could do for me.

I used the ordinary retinol 0.5% in squalane last night for the first time and I’ve woken up to a small cluster of whitehead spots near my mouth.

Is this purging??? I don’t know if I’d get it because I was using a retinol before??

Every single the ordinary product I've ever used has broken me out. I've tried so many over the years because people swear by them and I always go back after some time and try a new one thinking maybe it was the wrong product, wrong timing, etc. but nope, it just disagrees with my skin...

I've never had an issue with the ordinary really, I'm just not sure if I can go through purging when I've been using retinol for so long

Purging starts in around a month or so from the beginning so see if that happens for how long. Many people swear by them but for many it doesn't work. So here is my routine that I follow with tretinoin:
Morning:
Using water to wash your face,
Sebamed clear face gel,
Garnier spf
Evening:
Cerave moisturizer,
Started with Tretinoin (0.025) from skinorac
Sebamed clear facial gel

So the purging can't have come up overnight?

Mostly it takes little time to come up

Retinol hasn't caused me to break out, but I find they cause me to peel just as much as retinoid but are less effective. I get Monderma on prescription and it's improved my crepey undereye skin and pores more than any over the counter skincare.

I agree