Routine for Morning/Night for Oily Acne Prone Senstive Skin

What routine is good for oily acne prone skin that's a bit sensitive? I have used many products and have damaged my skin barrier and I dont know what products and ingredients to use? I want to start retinol and trenotin in my routine as soon as possible, but I dont know how to. I want to get to my goal of glass skin or mirror skin. ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ These are what I am currently planning for a new beginning in skincare, but I dont know if it's good or do I add more?

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Yourskintellectual

Oily/Resilient

Most importantly you need to adjust your expectations to something achievable because real skin has pores and hairs and so on - glass skin is not achievable without photoshop, make up etc. If you have damaged your skin barrier, I would suggest you go back to a simple routine of cleanser and moisturiser/spf at least for a few weeks. Moisturisers with ceramides can be great for this. Cerave has a few, but there's lots of recommendations on here. Why do you have two cleansers in both routines? If you're double cleansing with both of them, you've likely stripped your skin excessively. Your first cleansing step should be micellar water, cleansing balm or something like that. Also, from my experience mattifying moisturisers don't moisturise enough and further add to drying the skin out. Regarding retinoids - introduce gradually starting with once a week in the pm routine and work your way up to every other night. Don't mix with exfoliants. Apply to clean skin and follow up with a moisturiser. If that's too irritating, you can apply moisturiser first, then retinoid and then moisturiser again (sandwich method). Be patient with the results, retinoids take a long time to work.

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Yourskintellectual

Oily/Resilient

Glowing plump skin is one thing and it is achievable, glass skin is poreless unrealistic look that promotes unhealthy expectations. No one should be using two cleansers, that is the most stripping and drying skincare step. Excessive oil production is also usually caused by that very thing as it tries to compensate for the oil that's been lost. You should hydrate and moisturise lots instead of trying to take all the oil away. You can also add niacinamide, or clay masks to control oil production.

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SWhetstone

Oily/Resilient

I’m having the same problem with trying to find a routine for me that works. I have oily skin too and I wake up in the morning and my face feels oily and periodically throughout the day I’m having this issue to.

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nadikabi

Oily/Sensitive

same it’s so annoying! and then as soon as I moisture my face it gts even more oilier 😭😭😭

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