Retinol in a nutshell

Retinol is one of the most important ingredients in skin care. It is extremely powerful and is a necessity if you want to have truly radiant skin. Retinol is very strong and usually comes in low doses. Retinol is a form of Vitamin A and helps with cell regeneration, evening your skin tone, and even reducing fine lines.

Cell Regeneration

Retinol is great at removing dead skin cells and exposing new ones. This helps give your skin a fresh and smooth appearance as well as helps it shed dead skin and oil which may clog pores and cause breakouts. It is one of the best acne prevention products. Removing skin cells faster also means speeding up the process of removing dark spots and uneven skin color. Dark spots are damaged skin cells and once the damaged skin cells are gone, so are the dark spots.

How to use

Retinol works best when used at night and when applied through a serum or moisturizer. Cleansers containing retinol are pointless because the retinol needs to sit on your skin in order to be effective. It is recommended to be used at night due to the fact that you will be exposing new skin cells and those new skin cells are sensitive to sunlight. Too much sun exposure while wearing retinol may cause damage to the exposed skin cells.