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For father-and-son dermatologists Joel Schlessinger, MD and Daniel Schlessinger, MD, LovelySkin was never meant to be just another e-commerce site. Founded to close the gap between what a dermatologist recommends in the exam room and what a patient can actually find (and trust) once they get home, the platform has grown into a resource for more than 2 million customers and a key retail partner for L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s dermatologist-facing brands, including SkinCeuticals, skinbetter science and La Roche-Posay. In addition, they carry 350 other brands and over 15,000 individual items on their website. <\/p>\n

Ahead, we spoke with the Schlessingers about what makes that partnership work, how they think about layering high-performance brands into one regimen and which products are in their own rotation right now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What makes LovelySkin a strategic partner for L\u2019Or\u00e9al when it comes to expanding access to physician-dispensed skin care online?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Dr. Joel: <\/strong>\u201cLovelySkin was the result of my desire to provide better advice and a better selection of skin-care products to patients and customers. I saw so much misinformation being given to my patients and felt there had to be a better way to help people on a wide scale. <\/p>\n

Just as with all our partners, we aim to be a valued and genuinely helpful partner for every brand we represent, and with L\u2019Or\u00e9al that feeling is mutual. We rely on their exceptional educational opportunities for our staff and customers, and we also serve as a sounding board for them on brand positioning and rollout strategy. It is a symbiotic relationship. <\/p>\n

Customers who come to us for a SkinCeuticals serum, a skinbetter science retinol or a La Roche-Posay moisturizer are looking for expertise, and that is exactly what we love to provide. L\u2019Or\u00e9al has built brands that genuinely perform, and our role is to make sure patients can access them with customer care representatives available by phone, chat or email who are trained directly by the best L\u2019Or\u00e9al teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

How do brands like SkinCeuticals and skinbetter science complement each other on LovelySkin, and what does that mean for consumers building a results-driven regimen?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Dr. Daniel: <\/strong>\u201cBoth brands bring scientific rigor, but they solve different problems and serve different customers. SkinCeuticals is rooted in antioxidant science and prevention, and its vitamin C serum has decades of research behind it and still outperforms everything else in its category. People love skinbetter science for their inventive, science-backed formulas, from gentler retinol technology to hyaluronic acid paired with antioxidant support. Now that both brands sit under the L\u2019Or\u00e9al umbrella, they also share the research facilities and development process that help bring out the best products. When you layer these brands thoughtfully, you are building a regimen that addresses prevention, renewal and volume all at once.<\/p>\n

A perfect recent example is the newly reformulated C E Ferulic Antioxidant Serum ($185). For the first time in two decades, SkinCeuticals has enhanced its gold-standard vitamin C serum, keeping the proven antioxidant trio of 15 percent L-ascorbic acid, 1 percent vitamin E and 0.5-percent ferulic acid while adding 1 percent endophytol and 0.3 percent carnosine to support skin longevity. That kind of advancement on an established formula is exactly what L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s research resources make possible, and being able to bring it to our LovelySkin customers with the right education behind it is what we do best.\u201d<\/p>\n

How is LovelySkin helping bridge the gap between in-office dermatology recommendations and at-home purchasing in a digital-first landscape?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Dr. Joel:<\/strong> \u201cPatients often leave an appointment with product recommendations and then struggle to find them, or end up with gray-market versions from unverified sellers or even counterfeits from well-known sites. When patients shop on LovelySkin, they know it is under my dermatologic supervision and every product they receive is real and fresh. These are the same products we carry in our medical clinic, now available online. No other skin care website has the dermatology background that LovelySkin has.<\/p>\n

From the beginning, I have helped guide the site, and I work closely with our talented copy, video, design and customer care teams to shape everything from our emails to our product education. I stay personally connected to our customers too, reading every single Bizrate review on our site to keep a finger on the pulse of the site. Many of these customers are also my patients at the clinic where I work full-time alongside my son, Dr. Daniel Schlessinger, who is also a board-certified dermatologist, Mohs surgeon and cosmetic surgeon. We serve more than 150,000 patients in Omaha and more than 2 million customers on LovelySkin.com, which means we touch roughly one percent of the US population in some way. We take that seriously. We want shopping online to feel as trustworthy as walking into our office, and for our customers, we make sure it does.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What role does education\u2014clinical data, ingredient transparency and regimen guidance\u2014play in helping shoppers confidently choose between high-performance brands?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Dr. Daniel:<\/strong> \u201cConsumers shopping in this category want to know why something works and what\u2019s actually in it. SkinCeuticals P-TIOX Wrinkle Modulating Peptide Cream ($150), for example, visibly reduces nine types of wrinkle contraction lines and helps to reveal a glass skin radiance in as little as one week, which was proven in rigorous clinical trials by L\u2019Or\u00e9al, using physician-tested data. Helping patients understand how to use products together correctly is how they see the best results.\u201d<\/p>\n