Who should use retinol?
Just like the importance of eye cream or building the habit of wearing sunscreen everyday, retinol is something you should start using before your skin cell turnover rate slows down.
“Start using retinol in your mid to late 20s. It is ideal to start before age 30 as your skin cell turnover slows down as you enter your early to mid 30s, says Dr. Howard Sobel, founder of Sobel Skin and Attending Dermatologist and Dermatologic Surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. “Retinol speeds up the cell turnover process and tricks the skin into acting like its younger self. If you have early signs of ageing it is even more important to start earlier.