Retinal 0.04
0.04% encapsulated retinaldehyde, the starting strength
Load 4 of 5 · Measured
Up to 3 nights a week
Two to four nights a week for most people, built up from one. Leave an unloaded night on either side while you are finding your pace.
A week has a budget of 12. At 4 a use, this is 3 uses a week if you run nothing else loaded. How the scale works.
$62.00
USDStandard shipping $5.95, free over $65. Arrives in 3–5 business days. 45-day returns.
Retinaldehyde at 0.04%, encapsulated so it releases over hours rather than all at once, in a base carrying squalane, ceramides and bisabolol to offset the dryness a retinoid causes. Retinaldehyde sits a step along from retinol and short of the strongest clinical retinoids.
Load 4, which at the weekly budget of 12 means three nights a week and nothing else loaded on those nights. Start at one night a week for a fortnight, then two, then three. Skipping that build is the single most common reason people abandon a retinoid.
Expect some dryness and light flaking in weeks two to four. That is the adjustment, not damage, and the Recovery Cream exists for exactly those nights.
The formulation record
Everything in this formula, stated plainly, and the reasoning behind the number on the carton. The same record is printed on the insert in the box.
- Load
- 4 of 5 — Measured
- Frequency
- Up to 3 nights a week
- Ingredients (INCI)
- Aqua, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Glycerin, Squalane, Cetearyl Alcohol, Retinaldehyde (0.04%), Hydroxypinacolone Retinoate, Ceramide NP, Bisabolol, Panthenol, Tocopherol, Allantoin, Cetearyl Glucoside, Xanthan Gum, Disodium EDTA, Phenoxyethanol
- Size
- 30 ml / 1.0 fl oz, opaque airless pump
- Net weight
- 33 g
- Texture
- Pale lotion-serum, sinks in matte
- Made
- Formulated and filled in the United States.
How to use
- Evening only, on clean dry skin. One pump for the whole face.
- Build up: one night a week for two weeks, then two nights, then three. Do not start at three.
- Follow with a moisturiser. Wear a broad-spectrum sunscreen every morning while you are using it.
Cautions
- Not for use during pregnancy or while breastfeeding.
- Do not use on the same night as an exfoliating acid or the weekly mask.
- Not for use on broken, sunburnt or freshly waxed skin, or within a week of a professional resurfacing treatment.
- Patch-test before first facial use. Keep it off the eyelids and the corners of the nose.
Shipping
$5.95 standard, free over $65. 3–5 business days. Full policy
45 DAYS
Returns
Unopened and in original packaging, or opened if it caused a reaction. Refunded within 5 business days of reaching us. Full policy
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