Beauty

[winamac1]

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@AspenGrove wrote:

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@beauty0125 wrote:

How can it be the real thing without a perscription just paid over 200. for Renova. Do not understand how they can do this. Thanks

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@beauty0125 - Two or three years ago they finally released an exact generic for Renova so my dermatologist suggested I use that instead of the namebrand. AND, it costs just under $50 per tube at CVS. Quite a savings over the crazy price of the namebrand. Oddly enough, this year my health insurance suddenly covered the cost! So, I paid a $15 co-pay for the tube. Have no idea why, after so many years, insurance decided to cover it, but ... um, okay with me! 

Also, I posted over a year ago about studies my derm is involved in, testing retin-A from overseas. I was repeatedly bashed for posting the info here, with some lovely posters telilng me my derm was lying and other ridiculous things, so I said nothing more.  But, I will tell you@beauty0125 that the initial tests (the study is ongoing) revealed that many are NOT what you get in the U.S. even though the labels say they're manufactured by the same manufacturers. Evidently, they're not. There were many ingredients discovered in some overseas retin-As that you wouldn't want on your skin (e.g., lead).  Candadian and European pharmacies retin-A samples have tested as identical to what we buy in U.S. pharmacies, but the rest (from Mexico, India, and two other countries I can't remember at the moment) were not the same, according to my derm.

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This does not surprise me at all.

[AspenGrove]

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@beauty0125 wrote:

Wow I did not know renova has a generic I would have used that in a heart beat. I wonder why my md did not tell me this. How does your skin look with all the years of renova. I am 56 and have beautiful skin. Most think I am 35 so I am trying to preserve this a little bit. Since m kin is sensitive I am thinking of mixing it with moisturizer. Before this I used Paula's choice retinol and love it. I might rotate 

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@beauty0125 You can ask your derm to write the prescription for the Renova (tretinoin) generic when you have to renew it. In answer to your question, I just turned 58; I started using Renova at 45, I think, and my skin looks great. Renova is the only skincare regime that changed everything for me. My derm has taken before/after photos through the years—the professional close-up kind, in which they can really see lines, wrinkles, pores, discoloration, etc—and every picture is so remarkably different today than it was when I started.

For my skin, Renova has been the only game changer. No other lotion or potion has ever done that for my skin. Using it has also enabled me to stop the madness of layering a zillion products that don't do anything other than moisturize (even though they promise to do a ton of other things, which they don't). My daytime regime includes a moisturizer and SPF.  That's it.  Nighttime is Renova. That's it.  I've saved a fortune in skincare costs over these years and my skin is the best it's ever been. A win-win!