#tretinoin #acnejourney #adapalene
Trust me but it’s just it just doesn’t flake as much the tretinoin isn’t helping this area so is it actually doing anything else i started using it daily hey guys welcome back to my channel hi for new here my name is casia i share a little content about my adult acne the mental effects it’s had on me the physical effects and just dealing with it and clearing
My skin and everything that comes with it so if that sounds like a thing please feel free to subscribe but obviously you’ll want to see this video right so i am talking about tretinoin and different i’ve used both i will obviously share my whole journey i will be putting chapters down below in case you just want to skip to certain things topics that you’re
Interested in but obviously you’ll get the most out of it if you watch the whole thing let’s just get into it i have used both different different cream which is a dappling also a retinoid and i have also used tourettinois i have used first ever tried it when i used was from a brand called catrel i believe it’s pronounced and i got that without prescription
Because i went abroad and i just picked up at a pharmacy i didn’t need a prescription and i had a whole journey with it if you’re not familiar with my journey i will link um many videos within this so that you can see and throughout this video i will have images and footage to really display what i’m talking about because some of the things when i say dryness
I genuinely mean dryness so brief background about my skin and what i have and haven’t used pretty much my skin is actually prone oily i began with a retinol and i used one from la rash jose and it was like a cream it’s very simple it didn’t do too much to my skin i remember a little bit of dryness but it wasn’t anything major i then went on after quite a while
Of using this i also had the paula’s choice retinol but i didn’t use that as much i built my skin up to using retinol and i was then ready to incorporate a retinoid i discovered a retinoid through youtube i saw someone’s review i saw how it had cleared their skin and i was like i want that i need that that very day i was in portugal i went to the pharmacy and
I got tretinoin 0.05 so that is essentially a mid-tier strength it’s gonna do some stuff to your skin i started using it daily obviously in this video i’m going to be discussing the difference between tretinoin and a dappling for my skin and my journey this isn’t coming from an expert of looking at the criteria of both and how one is better than the other or
Whatever this is my personal experience of when i was using this this happened and when i was using that that happened that’s what this video is and i hope it’s helpful for people tretinoin i started had a journey with we will get into in more detail when we compare the two and i then went from tretinoin to a dapolin so a dapolin is the softer more gentle version
Of a retinoid compared to tretinoin tretinoin is like the big sister that knows everything and adapting is like oh i can kind of do the same thing but not to the full effect straight off the bat i don’t know why i did that straight off the bat i prefer a dappling why because i can tolerate it better but we have to bear in mind that i’ve used treason so i’ve
Been on the harsh stuff and then i go to the easier stuff and i’m like oh okay i can deal with this but obviously i have friends and family that have been prescribed adaptolene and they’re like oh my god my skin’s so dry my skin purging all these things that come with a retinoids that they’re not used to and it’s like yes but trust me knowing whether we’re no
One would have been worse trust me so we’re gonna just dive into some of the side effects with the retinoid in general so you can get this from both tretinoin and adapaline for example you might experience dry flaking skin happens you may experience some redness you may suffer from a sort of damaged skin barrier this also is likely to be caused by the way that
You’re using your retinoids for example if you go straight into it guns blazing every single day you are more likely to damage your skin barrier i have done it i have done it i’ve read an australia staking and then purging purging um it’s kind of a sensitive topic let’s be real so from everything that i have read online from from dermatologists to doctors and
Everything generally you can experience purging if you are using a retinoid less likely with a retinol but retinoids do truly unclog the pores bring things from deep down on the layers of the skin to the surface what tretinoin and adapaline do is speed up the skin cells turnover that’s where the flaky skin comes in right because your skin is turning over quicker
So we’re we’re hoping to get that fresh and newer skin which is going to help with the acne i’m clogging the pores getting rid of that and also hyperpigmentation um acne marks let’s say helping those to say because we’re slowly turning over well faster faster and we are turning over the skin cells but if you’re somebody that’s using tretinoin for anti-aging or
Even different for anti-aging then yeah maybe you’re less likely to purge maybe you might have a little breakout but it’s it’s there’s different levels to it do you know what i mean like for me my purge was very kind of big when i was using tretinoin but we cannot ignore the fact that i also damage my skin barrier and a lot of that was added irritation because
Generally these retinoids are strong and they’re going to cause some form of skin irritation how long it lasts it differs for everybody i can’t answer those questions but if you are starting a retinoid whether it’s tretinoin or adapaline i would say take it easy do what you feel is best listen to your skin if you find that one day you’re just putting on a moisturizer
That’s usually absolutely fine and it’s stinging that maybe your skin barrier that she’s saying like hey i’m struggling a bit here so to take some time off from your retinoid if you can so now that we’ve got that out of the way some of the side effects let’s let me just dive into what what kind of happened for me in terms of results tretinoin did get me clearer
Skin it took me at least six months because i kind of had this purge that then kind of made things you know then had to clear up additional acne it was six months where i started to do results nine months i actually quit because i had something going on with my chin and i think this is where your formulation is really important whether you go for the cream or
The gel bear in mind that it is it also depends on the season how how my skin was in summer versus winter using those retinoids differ completely so there’s so many variables but generally from what i can say for both it’s different and tressa knowing both gave me results but let’s dive into deeper to which one gave me better results or why and all that kind of
Stuff one sec my camera is literally gonna die let me really say my preference here my preference is differing a dappling why because it is gentler and i have had much more of a positive experience with different versus tretinoin tretinoin is obviously seen as the gold standard it does so much it’s got the science um it’s called the data the data to back it up
That it can help with the acne it can help with the anti-aging fine lines and wrinkles it can help with just making your skin look amazing right but i have had negative experiences with the tretinoin from mainly from the purging to be honest and initially yes i do feel like i did too much with my first try at tretinoin and that also added to the purging but the
Second time around i was doing it every other day or less and i was really listening to my skin and i still came with a purge that purge was not as severe as my first but even then it still was like i can’t deal with this whereas with different i personally have not had a purge from it however this is where so many variables come in when i’ve used a dapolin i
Have used it from damasca which is a brand i’ve talked about a lot actually i literally have this one’s got tretinoin but they all look the same the treatments but then it has your personalized formulation inside and i have spoken about this many times it’s such an easy way to get prescription strength skin care so i got a known from here i got a dappling from
Here i’ve tried azelic acid from here all of which have given me results but obviously i have had chronic acne and i ended up going for oral antibiotics i do have a discount code if you are interested in trying it i’ll leave that on the screen these formulations are often very often mixed with other ingredients that through data and science what it shows makes
It more effective so for example this one that there is tretinoin is tretino in 0.05 makes for niacinamide mixed with clindamycin so it it’s not just pure tretynomic so we have to bear that in mind when we’re also comparing these results versus my first time around when i was just using pure tretinoin cream 0.05 this is a tretinoin lotion with niacinamide and
Clindamycin so if we’re comparing these results we have to bear in the variables right so yes my purge was better the second time around like less less severe is that because i had learned a lot more from my first tretinoin journey is that because it was mixed with these other ingredients that helped i can’t can’t truly say what i’m getting at here is with the
Adapaline the first time using it was from domatica and it was mixed with perhaps the clindamycin and the niacinamide again so i was experiencing it in a different way compared to just getting a differing cream or gel which is just pure adapaline also when it comes to these things it depends on the percentage if i was starting on a 0.1 tretinoin it might have
Been a completely different story um if i was starting on 0.025 the one of the lower strengths again i might not have purged as severely so it really does differ and obviously i’m saying here tretinoin versus adapalene but there’s so much that goes into it it’s going to differ so much depending on how you’re using these retinoids and what you’re mixing them with
And your routine so much so much but in considering everything i prefer the adapaline over tretinoin as i briefly mentioned i went the antibiotics and i wasn’t able to just mix it up with any old cream they then prescribe me different so i stopped my dermatica treatment by the way that is why um so i was using the different alongside the antibiotics which is also
Something we need to bear in mind because again the antibiotics are helping bring down the information and helping with the bacteria on the skin so the likelihood of me purging and seeing that is different so me saying i like the adapting more because i didn’t purge as much also might have been because of the antibiotics so let’s dive into different different
Like i said it’s the level down from tretinoin so even the 0.1 percent different adapaline is not the same as the 0.1 tretinoin i always prescribed the cream the cream as you can imagine tends to be a more moisturizing emollient formulation versus the gel which is usually clear with both tretinoin and adapylene i use the cream formulations the cream admittedly
Originally we’re treating i mean i was putting on way too much sometimes too much would just come out and i’d be like you know what i don’t want to waste it this is gold standard it’s going on my face so yes sometimes i definitely use too much small small a little really does go a long way you need the tiniest bit tiniest bit the cream is all i really have
Experience with so i can’t really say like the tretino in gel versus tretinoin cream i can just say threatenone cream versus the adapting cream and personally the tretinoin cream i had again might be because of my use but that really did not help my chin my chin gets congested very easily it breaks out into these tiny white spots it’s if i’ve put on too much
Of a heavy cream if i’ve put on honestly if anything’s just too heavy on that area i’ll break out into these tiny spots this is it um severe by the way sometimes it’s just a couple of little ones and i know that okay i’ve just been a bit heavier in that area but this is me when i was using the tretinoin cream and i was getting this whole chin full of them and
I was thinking is it because it’s summer is it because it’s purging from this area and i know it’s a very congested area i really didn’t understand it again i have many videos on that and the video where i decided to quit tretinoin was me explaining that hey it’s not doing anything with my chin and i understand that i could just miss that area as a whole just
Stop using the truck i know in there but it concerned me that the tretinoin isn’t helping this area so is it actually doing anything else i don’t know i was just going through this whole thing of i don’t know what’s actually going on here and right now i just need to get something going on with my chin because i was just getting these constant mass breakouts of
White zits whereas with the adapalene i have not had any of that issues even though i’m also using the cream so i’ve touched on dryness and dry skin but generally they’re dappling for me the dryness is almost do i dare say it it’s almost non-existent compared to the track now enjoying us that i suffered with i would say that was a lot more flaking dappling is
Just not as dry for my skin and i don’t know i genuinely don’t know if it’s because i’ve just experienced obviously tretinoin and harsher retinoids and this one really doesn’t do too much to my skin but it’s just it just doesn’t flake as much and don’t be fooled don’t be fooled because my skin is still seeing results even though i’m not having this dry dry skin
You do not necessarily need to have flakes and you know sloughing off dead skin daily and seeing it to be like oh my gosh my skin is actually renewing itself like it can do that without you seeing it very very physically on your face it’s hard to explain the comparison to my skin when i was using tourette knowing and the dryness i was suffering with then versus
Now completely different so i’m able currently to get away with different and benzoyl peroxide evidence is in those videos if you want to check them out for proper details of the before and afters so i didn’t actually write any talking points for this video i just thought i’d compare the two and let you guys know that i personally prefer the difference but it
Doesn’t mean that you need to go and do the different if you are entrepreneur and it’s working for you now and you’re just wondering what other people are thinking about the different then that’s good to know we will stick to what we know and i will let you guys know how my skin is going i will do a three months post antibiotic so you can really see okay once
I was off the antibiotics and i was purely relying on the different how has that help my skin so until then please stay tuned don’t forget to subscribe down below so you can check out my other videos see my skin coming up how it’s doing and if you have enjoyed this if you did find this useful because that was the main point of this video please give it a like
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TRETINOIN VS ADAPALENE FOR ACNE: Dryness, Results & Purging: Retin-a or Differin for acne prone skin By Kaycia
