PIE and damaged skin barrier

You just need to focus on repairing your barrier first, and then you can approach your PIE more gently. You’ll need to just cut out actives and go back to basics for a while. No vit c, BHA/AHA, retinoids, benzoyl peroxide, and probably avoid too much niacinamide. A simple and gentle cleanser, moisturizer and SPF for a while will help heal your barrier quicker than trying to overload your skin with new soothing products.

Your skin barrier should be addressed first! All actives including your glycolic and retinol and vit C must take a rest for now until your skin don’t feel irritated, it takes various time for different people, some take weeks while others take months. Ceramide is your best friend while rebuilding your skin barrier everything else should be just basic: gentle cleanser, moisturizer and sunscreen and you should be good to go, if not then you might need to see a derm.

I really like the products below when I need to repair my skin barrier. The Midnight Blue can be paired with the Liquid Gold or Great Barrier Relief cream. I find it is be calming and effective. Keep it simple as you are repairing your barrier. it happens sometimes. This community has great advice.

I agree with the comment above... when my skin barrier was compromised, I went back to the basics... just cleanser, toner, moisturizer and sunscreen. I actually used Cerave cleanser and moisturizer (per my dermatologist)

i think you should try products that hydrating your skin to make your skin barrier stronger. product that has hyaluronic acid, ceramide are good for skin barrier. i hope it helps. and cheer up i hope ur skin will get better soon✨