I didn’t really have much acne but started tret mainly to fade PIH caused my skin picking of sebaceous filaments and to even out the increase in size of sebaceous filaments i’ve had over the last few months.
Ive added in a few things alongside tret 0.05 and i’m definitely seeing progress now (3 months in). Using a lot of actives to help fade so i’ll def take a break or only use the Aza or only tret on nights i feel dry.
routine:
am: aloe vera gel, hyaluronic acod with 2% alpha arbutin, sometimes niacinamide and zinc 10% or aza 10% and spot treat on only the darkest outlined bits with hydroquinone 4%. jojoba oil then eucerin pigmentation suncream (with thiamidol i think) it’s spf 50 or i use the tinted spf 30 one
pm: aloe vera, aza 10%, and tret 0.05 mixed with 4% hydroquinone. jojoba oil and vaseline or cicalfate.
also taking 500mg of tranexamic acid daily. will stop the HQ soon and then maintain with tret and aza and maybe the oral txa
pics are in a couple of different lightings, either my makeup lamp or by the window in light indirect sunlight. from feb 11 to april 20th