Dr. Shereene Idris

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1,008 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 26 Feb

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · #1 Dermatologist: The Ultimate Skincare Routine for Amazing Skin · 26 Feb 2026 podcast

Now, like vitamin C has an inactive form, retinol is the inactive form, and the prescription is the active form.

But this category of vitamin A is meant to help to build thicker skin, to promote collagen production, to help regulate how your cells turn over.

So teenagers would use it originally for acne, like blackheads and whiteheads, to minimize how it sticks.

And then we realized it has long-term longevity benefits.

So it became a staple for the anti-aging world.

And it has a huge track record of clinical data to support it.

But one thing that I think people get wrong about retinols and retinoids is that stronger is better.

I burnt my face doing this.

That is wrong because you are going to just, it's better to be consistent over time than to go wrong and strong.

You got dissuaded.

Yes.

So it's about consistency over intensity.

I would rather you pick the inactive form at its lightest concentration over the counter and use it five nights a week.

Okay.

And maybe use the prescription once.

Okay.

And have a healthy, happy skin state because that inflammation that you're going to cause, let's say you're doing this every week, long-term, it's not going to benefit you as you age.

And let's say you just did it once, you got zero benefit out of that.

You've just been traumatized.

Completely.

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