Adapalene

The second thing is always a topical retinoid.

Thankfully, there is one topical retinoid that's available over the counter, and that's adapalene.

And so in the form of Differin, the brand Differin, particularly for people who have blackheads, whiteheads, even for people who have like just small or mild inflammatory lesions, topical retinoids are a mainstay for treatment of acne.

And so if I'm being honest, even before, if a patient wanted to choose one thing that they were going to use, that one thing that I would recommend would be a topical retinoid.

Can we go back to the benzoyl peroxide? Because this is something that I'm always confused by.

So went to the store and bought different tretinoin.

and was doing Adapalene in the morning and Tretinoin at night.

Oh, goodness.

And I recently saw this person and their face was just shedding, just peeling skin like crazy.

It's been over the counter for Gosh, I don't know.

How long has Adapalene been out? I feel like it's been...

I

don't know.

So those are like the

three –

Yeah, because it won't be on the label as Adapinoid, whereas like Adapalene will say Adapinoid, I think.

I could be wrong.

No, it's on prescription.

Tretinoin, tiseratine and adapalene are all on prescription here in Ireland.

Adapalene is available over the counter in the US and tretinoin is available over the counter in a lot of European, you know, mainland Europe, I think Spain.

A lot of people say, oh, I get it in Spain when I'm over there.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean I think it's a shame we don't have that app

you know yeah and there's a lot of examples of things that are available in the US that aren't available here yeah for sure yeah yeah yeah

or bringing it back to skin care Adapalene you know a very gentle topical retinoid great for acne it's available over the counter in the US but not here and I think it would be useful if it was available over the counter here