A-Passioni Retinol Cream

I'm in my 60's and already have good skin, thanks to carefully taking care of it for years. I was using a 3% retinol serum from Peter thomas roth every night with moisturizer on top. As I could no longer find it in stores, I decided to try this product from Sephora. The saleslady DID warn me; I should have listened. After about 3 uses around 2 days apart, I got all those bad reactions- …Read more

I have been using Retinol products for years. Prescription strength is just too much. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get past the flaking peeling stage, so I've shifted to OTC the highest strength products I can find. I love the following Retinol products I've tried: Green Cream, Sunday Riley, Shanee Darden. I think this might have them all beat. I am able to use this …Read more

Love DE products, this was just too intense for my sensitive skin (combo, fine lines and age spots showing up). Have had great success with other products and use the Beste Cleanser, Cfirma and Protini daily (swap out Protini for Bhdyra when my skin is leaning more oily than dry). I added this to my routine and used less than a pea sized amount once a week while continuing to use sunscreen …Read more

I'm 55 with combination skin. I've been using granactive retinoid and similar retinol products for about 2 years now, but nothing compares to A Passioni. It's absolutely the best otc retinol available. I did experience some flaking after about 2 weeks, but it went away with Sisley Creme Reparatrice within just over 24 hours. I use it every other day, alternating with either …Read more

I started to use this once a week coz i was afraid of any purging. I started to get flaking skin after about 4 days after my initial use -very minimal. I’ve been keeping this routine for 2 months now, i use once a week and then the flaking happens. You have to be patient with the process.

I started noticing a change after a month and a half, my skin texture is A LOT smoother, my pores …Read more

I’ve been using this for about a month now. I started off once a week and have been working my way up. This is for sure the highest concentration of Retinol I’ve ever used- and the price reflects that. Drunk Elephant is always pricey, but with Retinol, that’s to be expected in general. Especially for 1%. I’ve used a variety of retinol products in the past and they generally dry me out so much I …Read more

Check out Dr. Dray's recommendation for how to apply this. Moisturize the skin first and then go in with the retinol. Since I've been doing it this way, I've had no stinging or dryness or peeling. I've only been using this for about a month so I can't comment on its efficacy yet.

I have been user of ROC Deep Wrinkle Night cream for years but I wanted a retinol treatment that was stronger. I received a deluxe sample of this from Sephora (it might have been a 500 point perk and came with another DE moisturizer). This is housed in a metal tube. Per the instructions you are to use a pea-sized amount-I used more than this the first night but then realized a pea-sized amount …Read more

Oh HELL NO ..... I truly wanted to love this product and I did initially ..... I used this for two weeks and my skin was sensitive, dry/peeling and would burn (even though I mixed with Marula oil or other DE products as recommended to cocktail,) however, I went from using this 1 - 2 times a week to 1 time a week and my skin was looking good (which is why I still gave a few points to my rating,) …Read more

I've been less than wowed by most of what I've tried from DE - I find them nice but outrageously overpriced for stuff that is actually pretty mundane ($90 for the same marula oil I can get at the health food store for $15???). For that reason, I got and am still using a generous sample of this cream, because it is $92 in Canada and I wanted to be sure it was worth the inflated price …Read more