02/09/2026
People expect my bathroom shelf to be more impressive than it is.
Four products. AWvi gentle cleanser, power serum, active cream, and sun protection. Morning and evening are the same, apart from the SPF. That’s the whole thing.
I use AWvi because my own skin is sensitive and reactive, and because gentle formulations suit it better than a shelf of strong actives. That’s a decision about my skin, not a verdict on anyone else’s.
And it’s the boring bit that does the work. Not the product list. The same few things, every day, for long enough to see whether they’re helping. Most skin problems I see aren’t caused by using the wrong product. They’re caused by using nine of them, changing them constantly, and never giving anything long enough to tell.
I take a skin biotic alongside it. The relationship between the gut and the skin is one of the more interesting areas in skin health at the moment, and I take an interest in where the evidence goes. I’m not going to tell you it will clear your skin. I’ll tell you I take one.
The sun protection is the part I won’t skip. Heliocare 360 Water Gel in tinted bronze most mornings, and their compact in my bag, because one application at eight in the morning has stopped working by lunchtime. If you take one thing from this, take that one.
But none of this is a prescription. My routine suits my skin and my history. Yours would start from a different place, which is rather the point of assessing it properly first.
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