Wait, I Can Shrink My Pores?

Mm-hmm

...

I have to inform the Gloworms of some news that has taken place.

Yeah, and this is shocking.

Take it away.

[laughs] It's kind of happened under the radar a little bit, because when I said it to Key, you were like, "Huh? What? That's why?" Okay, let me rewind.

Rewind.

So run it back.

[imitates tape rewinding]

[laughs]

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From the 27th of June, 2026, retinal, or retinaldehyde, importation and manufacture can no longer be authorized under the AICIS exempted or reported categories if it has any consumer end use, including as a cosmetic ingredient.

Oh.

So this means that introducers, so importers and manufacturers, must apply and receive an assessment certificate for retinal prior to introduction.

So what realistically this means is that it's not necessarily that these products are not gonna be available anymore, but retinal, so retinol and retinal are two different things-

Yes

... remember that, but retinaldehyde, which is what I personally use-

Mm

... on my face, I use my Medik8 one.

These companies are now gonna have to apply for this, like, certification, right? And this is from Rush.

Emily Alga wrote a piece about it, which really helped me wrap my brain around it, so because this word ban was being thrown around-

Mm

...

so I went and panic-bought [laughs] top-ups of my-

I literally was about to.