Skincare Routine Builder
Get a personalized AM & PM routine tailored to your skin.
1. Select Your Skin Type
2. Select Your Concerns
3. Your Age Range
Build a personalized AM and PM skincare routine based on your skin type and concerns. Get product recommendations, ingredient tips, and proper layering order.
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What this page assumes, and where it stops
Jurisdiction
General consumer health information, not specific to any country's prescribing rules.
Assumptions
- Only what you enter on this page is used. Personal circumstances, exemptions, and special cases are not applied.
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Where you should not rely on this
This is general information, not medical advice, and it cannot account for your medical history, medications, or skin condition. Do not use it to start, stop, or change a treatment. Talk to a clinician about anything that affects your health.
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Frequently asked questions
What order should I apply the products in?
The builder sorts every step for you, and the rule behind that order is thinnest to thickest: cleanser, toner, exfoliant, serums, eye cream, moisturiser, and sunscreen last in the morning. A thick cream applied early blocks what comes after it, which is why sunscreen never goes under a moisturiser.
Why does retinol only show up in my evening routine?
Retinol, a second treatment serum and chemical exfoliant are all marked evening-only in this builder, and sunscreen is marked morning-only. Those actives make skin more sensitive to sunlight, so they are kept to the routine that is followed by a night rather than by a day outdoors.
Why did an eye cream appear when I did not ask for it?
Choosing an age range of 35–45 or over 45 adds an eye cream to both routines, marked optional. It is a suggestion tied to the age you selected, not a step the builder considers essential — steps shown in the accent colour without the optional badge are the core of the routine.
Can I use every product this builder suggests on day one?
Add them one at a time. The routine is assembled from your skin type plus every concern you ticked, so selecting several concerns can produce a long list, and starting all of it together makes it impossible to tell which product caused a reaction. Introduce actives such as retinol and exfoliants a week apart.
Why the order of layers matters
A routine is a sequence, and the sequence is decided by consistency rather than by price. The general rule is thinnest to thickest: a water-like product spreads under a cream, but it cannot get through one. In the morning that usually means cleanser, then any water-based treatment, then moisturiser, then sunscreen last because it has to form an unbroken film on the outside.
At night the same order applies with the sunscreen removed and the active treatment moved in. Waiting a minute between layers is enough for each to absorb; waiting ten is not better, and layering onto a still-wet surface mostly dilutes what you just applied.
Combinations to keep apart
Most irritation comes from stacking two strong actives on the same night rather than from any single product. A retinoid and an exfoliating acid together is the usual culprit; so is a high-strength vitamin C alongside either. Alternating nights gives the same exposure over a week with far less disruption to the skin barrier.
Introduce one new product at a time and give it two to four weeks before judging it. If you change three things at once and your skin reacts, you have no way of knowing which one to drop.
Patch testing, in practice
Apply a small amount to the inner forearm or just behind the jaw once a day for several days and watch for redness, stinging that does not settle, or small bumps. This catches contact irritation, which is common. It does not predict clogging or breakouts, which take longer to appear and need the product used on the face.
Nothing here is medical advice. Persistent inflammation, cystic acne, sudden changes in a mole, or any reaction that spreads belongs with a dermatologist rather than with a routine builder.