Fragrances Boutique

Every night I use Pond’s cold cream to cleanse my skin. I follow the cleansing with moisturizer before applying eye cream and Retin-A. As you may know by now, I’m convinced Retin-A will be my secret to looking 60 when I’m really 70. Once every couple weeks I may treat myself to a microdermabrasion scrub or a hydrating mask.

In the morning, I use a washcloth dipped in organic coconut oil to wash off the dry skin flakes that sometimes come from Retin-A. I follow that (sometimes) with antioxidant rich Vitamin C cream and I top that with La-Roche Posay’s SPF 60 tinted sunscreen.

After all of this, it’s amazing I find the time to floss.

Dermatologists are always touting retinols, antioxidants AND microdermabrasion, but if one is on a prescription-strength retinoid (like my Retin-A), should she also be subjecting her skin daily to a Vitamin C cream and twice a month to a scrub? I was wondering how much is too much, so I turned to Maryann Mikhail, a dermatologist at Manhattan’s Spring Street Dermatology with that exact question.

Find out what she had to say.

Image: Photographer’s Choice

How Much Skincare is Too Much? originally appeared on About.com Beauty on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 23:09:38.

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I once got a rather unpleasant email from a reader who was angry that I called a fragrance a “fruity floral” in a new fragrance announcement: she assumed that I was making an arbitrary assignment based on the notes listed in the press release, and that I was trying to make a critical statement about this particular fragrance.¹ This nicely introduces the first point I’d like to make about fragrance families: you cannot determine the fragrance family by reading a list of notes. If you see a fragrance family listed in a new fragrance announcement, it came from the press materials or some other primary source.

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She wears “colorful but not fancy clothes” ranging from high heels to jeans and t-shirts.

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