‼️Retinol will NOT thin your skin out Retinol is an over the counter derivative of Vitamin A and is perhaps the most well researched skincare ingredient in the history dermatology and the impact this ingredient has. There has been some debate around tretinoin which is a prescription retinoid thinning the skin however we have several studies over the last 30 years that show us that tretinoin use actually makes the skin thicker & healthier. I have added only 2 of many studies done on this topic. Keep yourself aware & informed! The ability of long-term (more than 6 months) tretinoin treatment to maintain improvement in photoaging was first evaluated by Ellis and colleagues (1990) in a 22-month study carried out in 16 patients with photoaged skin. All the subjects used 0.1% tretinoin for the first 4 months. Thereafter, 3 patients continued this regimen, 8 were changed to alternate day treatment for the last 12 months, and the remaining used 0.05% tretinoin for 5 months and then reduced to alternate day application till the end of therapy. It was observed that the improvement of wrinkling continued up to the 10th month and was maintained thereafter. The stratum corneum and epidermal thickness returned to the normal during the course of treatment Bhawan and colleagues (1996) studied the effect of long-term use (4 years) of tretinoin emollient cream in 27 patients treated with either 0.05% or 0.01% of tretinoin for the first 18 months, followed by 15-month treatment with 0.01% tretinoin. The studies indicated granular layer thickness and epidermal thickness were increased in the first 3–6 months, returned to normal in 12–24 months and remained normal until cessation of the therapy. In contrast, epidermal mucin continued to increase and melanin continued to decrease throughout tretinoin treatment. #retinol #skincare #skincareroutine #antiaging #antiagingskincare #skincarecommunity #skincaretips #viral #viral #skintok #uae #saudiarabia