It thickens the deeper layers of the skin and also thins the outer protective layer (the stratum corneum). It’s been studied for 30 years and has been proven effective on reversing the signs of photo-aging like wrinkles, age spots, sagging, and dullness by increasing collagen production deep within the skin. Retin-A is considered the gold standard of anti-aging topical treatments. I refer to it as Retin-A even though I use the generic tretinoin product. Retin-A is a brand name of tretinoin (like Q-Tips is for cotton swabs). I use my YouTube filming equipment to take the pictures and I try to use the same lighting when possible but I can’t match everything exactly. This is an at-home experiment, not a double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trial. So, just to be clear, this update is for those who want to see my Before & After pictures even though I’ve had the laser treatment (and sometimes use Botox and/or fillers), it’s for those who understand that I’m a real person and I use other skincare and procedures. But, I had so many requests to do a 4-year and more recently a 5-year update that I decided to do it. In my mind doing a procedure like Fraxel would “blur the lines” between what Retin-A was responsible for and what the laser was responsible for. I did updates at 9 months, 2 years, and 3 years, but after the 3-year update I got a Fraxel Dual Laser treatment done so I wasn’t going to do any more Retin-A updates. I started using prescription Retin-A 5 years ago when I turned 50. In today’s post, I’m doing a 5-Year Retin-A Update showing results on wrinkles in Before & After photos.
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