Shereene IdrissBoard Certified Derm, Founder and Chief Nerd

Collagen Boosting Serums Part 1 #shorts

15 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube short by Shereene Idriss offering practical skincare advice for boosting collagen when retinol or exfoliating acids cause irritation. Recommends growth factors and certain peptides as alternatives or complements, briefly defining growth factors (promote cell proliferation and healing) and peptides (muscle signaling, anti-inflammatory effects, stimulate collagen). Notes retinol intolerance can be site-specific (e.g., neck/chest).

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If you can't tolerate a retinol, but you are trying to make more collagen and trying to help yourself, but you are just unable to get past the irritation of retinols or other ingredients that you can incorporate, even exfoliating acids like glycolic acids. But the more interesting ones are the growth factors as well as certain peptides. Growth factors can signal your cells to grow, to proliferate and to heal, whereas peptides have various other functions in your skin from muscle signaling, so it can help reduce the look of wrink to even anti inflammatory effects. Plus they help stimulate collagen. Now let's say you can tolerate retinol, but you cannot tolerate it on your neck or chest.