Good to know that and to hear from you. I use 0.1% Tretinoin with blender 3x a week as part of my maintenance protocol incorporated along with ZO Skin Health. On the nights I don’t use the Tretinoin/blender I use the Growth Factor Serum.
I have tried and tolerated Sandra’s suggestion of “kicking it up a notch” and using the tretinoin/blender followed by the growth factor serum then the Ommerse Nightly Renewal Creme. Although I am one who is willing to do better if I can “fight harder”, at the same time I want to be sure that I am fighting smart as well.

Hope all is well with you and thank you for your excellent advice!

Yours truly,
Anne

Thanks for your inquiry—all good questions!

Yes, Radical Night Repair Plus is a more aggressive product than Growth Factor Serum—meaning, it will work harder to stimulate your skin, accelerate cellular turnover, etc. When Dr. Obagi is talking to people, he asks them if they are willing to fight aging hard—meaning, are they ready to tolerate some temporary dryness and irritation. That’s how your skin voids itself of the dull, damaged, hyperpigmented skin cells, so that new, healthy ones can emerge. For people who want a gentle treatment, he recommends sticking with Growth Factor Serum. For people who are ready to address their skin problems with a more aggressive treatment, he recommends Radical Night Repair Repair Plus.

2. You’re right that we don’t recommend that Growth Factor Serum be used on the same night as Radical Night Repair Plus. Use one or the other. They can, however, be used on alternate nights (use GFS on the nights that you are not using RNR Plus, while you are building tolerance). Sandra Obagi (who is a medical aesthetician and manages one of Dr. Obagi’s clinics) told me that her patients had better results—and better compliance—if they used Ommerse Daily Renewal Crème after they applied Radical Night Repair Plus in the evening. We recommended using the Ommerse product in the morning—because that’s the way that we conducted the clinical trials. You may, however, want to apply that Ommerse in the evening.

Hope that helps!

Thanks.

My inquiry is about one of your newer products, the Ossential Radical Night Repair Plus. This looks to be a more effective night time treatment product than the Ossential Growth Factor Serum. I see that it is recommended to not use these two products together.

So, my questions are:
1) Is this indeed true – that the Radical Night Repair would be a stronger and therefore more effective product for my skin care concerns (above)?
2) If I did purchase the Radical Night Repair product, would I use the Growth Factor Serum on “alternate” nights, until my skin gets used to the Repair enough to use it nightly? Or, is it recommended to use only the Repair (first two nights a week, then alternate nights, then nightly) without any kind of “Stimulating” product on the other nights?

If this is the case, then I will use up the Growth Serum I have, before purchasing the other product, if it is recommended – again, for my skin care concerns.