Two patterns to step away from.
The first is the over-exfoliation routine · acid plus acid plus scrub plus retinol, stacked night after night. The barrier you are working to build cannot rebuild while it is being stripped. Skin that is being exfoliated more than once or twice a week is not getting better. It is getting more reactive, and most of the texture you are exfoliating to address is being made worse by the exfoliation itself.
The second is the complex layered routine. Eight serums in one face. The fifteen-step bedtime stack. Not everything works together. Some of it cancels out. Most of what is doing real work could be done by three or four well-chosen products used consistently, and a barrier that has been allowed to settle.
Filed by Pink Laser Clinics · · May 2026