Skin&Me - hope yet?

[Wrinklewoes5]

I've been using Skin&Me for 4 months but not really seeing any results. I felt like I did the first couple of weeks but this was probably just due to being more diligent with daily moisturising.

I will only start having Tret in the doser next month, so I am hoping it will start having more of an impact then, but shouldn't I be seeing improvement already?

My issue is mainly fine lines and wrinkles, and all the people I see raving about Skin&me were using it more for acne or pigmentation which I didn't have to start with.

I don't mind the cost too much as if I wasn't giving this a try I'd probably be spending 100s on microblading or something else, but still, I don't want to waste my time.

Do I need to play the long game, keep the faith and stick with it?

I used Skin +Me for a couple of years, also for fine lines and wrinkles and it really does work - but as a caveat I had Tret as part of my formula from the beginning (I didn't know you could get it without TBH). It took about 6 months for me but one morning I looked at myself properly in the mirror and I had what's known as the Tret glow. I only stopped Skin + Me to move to Renew +Me which is a more nourishing tret based formula for 50+ skin.

I find renew and me quite drying so interesting it's meant to be more nourishing!

Maybe I need a better moisturizer

I slug after using it with a natural oil based balm. Maybe that's a bad idea?!

I find it quite stingy sometimes@Chungai and I quite often add a basic moisturizer after just to keep my skin happy but it's also richer than Skin + Me which could feel a bit medicinal on my skin. I get the feeling that the company are still tweaking Renew and Me given they have changed the name and packaging since launch so maybe the formulation is still bring worked on.

The tret will make the difference! It takes a while. At least it did for me but I noticed a difference in my friend’s skin early on. I remarked on how glowing she looked and she said she’d started Skin and Me that I’d recommended about two months before.

@Puppylucky @QueenJulian thank you, this is reassuring and gives me hope!

Although if it also takes 6 months of tret for me to see a difference, I will have been on Skin&me for almost a year by then 😅 definitely a long game.

No idea why I wasn't on tret from the beginning, I guessed the skin needed to slowly get used to the other active ingredients (niamacide and azelaic acid) but it's taking ages!

I can also see that all the remaining daily dosers will stay on the same 0.006% tret, no progressive increase at all, which seems so low.

Perhaps the picture I submitted didn't do my wrinkles justice and they don't realise how bad they are? I need strong stuff!

Yes the Tret will make a difference and 6 months in they will ask for more photos and in my case upped my dosage. I can see why they build it up as I had really bad purging from the Nicinimide, but been on it a year now and it’s great.