I posted a picture of my prescription retinol last week, and I don’t use that everyday because it’s pretty potent. On other nights, I use one of these – some of them are press samples. Some I’ve paid for, and actually there’s one I couldn’t find in time for this picture, but it resurfaced later.
There’s no debate about retinol working in any form – in fact a low concentration can be effective because it’ll be gentle enough to not have many side effects, and will encourage regular use which is the key to seeing a difference.
All of these work and the drugstore retinols are more gentle and are moisturizing. Many of them also have antioxidants or other nice ingredients in them. The A313 is from Europe and I find it to be the most irritating but it’s fine once my skin gets used to it.
What do you think? Do you have a favourite?
