{"id":1418,"date":"2026-03-24T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/5-retinol-myths-dermatologists-want-you-to-stop-believing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:43:19","slug":"5-retinol-myths-dermatologists-want-you-to-stop-believing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/5-retinol-myths-dermatologists-want-you-to-stop-believing\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Retinol Myths Dermatologists Want You to Stop Believing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Myth 1: All retinoids are created equal. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Retinoids are vitamin A\u2013derived compounds, both natural and synthetic, known for their wide range of benefits, from combating photoaging to improving overall skin quality.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re also a category with many different names and forms, which can make them confusing to navigate. \u201cThe general public gets the prescription-strength Retin-A [the brand name for tretinoin] confused with over-the-counter retinol,\u201d explains Delray Beach, FL, dermatologist Dr. Janet Allenby. \u201cTretinoin has studies as part of its FDA-approval to prove its efficacy; retinol, which is considered a cosmeceutical, does not require the same stringency.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Campbell, CA, dermatologist Amelia K. Hausauer, MD, says that, at a very basic level, the different forms also interact differently with the skin. \u201cWhen you apply a retinol, it is actually changed into tretinoin, and it is 20 times less potent than prescription formulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script id=\"11e212685b4237ef528e61442140ad99-1\" type=\"nitropack\/inlinescript\" class=\"nitropack-inline-script\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '1572440699746061'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth 1: All retinoids are created equal. Retinoids are  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichebeaty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}