How does retinol compare to tretinoin?

🎙️The last podcast episode of 2023 is up! In this episode we reflected on all our favorite studies, skincare products, and decodes of 2023. The retinol/tretinoin comparative study was definitely a highlight! Head to the podcast (link in story) to reflect with us! Enjoy! #repost 😰 Do you suffer from tretinoin FOMO? 🎯 There’s a lot of focus on making sure you’re hitting concentrations that give max skin performance. But we’re here to tell you that in this case, you don’t have to! We wanted to share a really great comparative study that looked at the mechanism of 0.1% retinoic acid vs. 0.1% retinol. 🧫 Ex-vivo (removed skin tissue): They saw that retinol elicits the same behavior in skin as retinoic acid: epidermal thickening and upregulated both collagen 1 & 3. 👥 In-vivo (clinical study on human subjects): 0.1% retinol showed full face wrinkle reduction by 12 weeks. 👌 If you find yourself wondering if you’re missing out on some benefit that tretinoin has that retinol doesn’t, there’s really nothing to worry here! Think of these more as two modes. Retinoic acid being fast and intense vs. retinol being slow and less intense. https://loom.ly/_pm1hEM