Skincare / retinol topical skin
retinol topical skin
Evidence for skincare, scored from the published research.
skin elasticity
promising81/100 Evidence ScoreConfidence: high3 studies1 RCT
Multiple human studies report a positive effect.
- 2 human studies (4,015 participants total)
- Studies point in broadly the same direction
- Still unknown: few longer-duration studies
References (3)
- Topical stabilized retinol treatment induces the expression of HAS genes and HA production in human skin in vitro and in vivo.in vitro study · Archives of dermatological research · 2017
- Comparative efficacy of topical interventions for facial photoaging: a network meta-analysis.systematic review · Scientific reports · 2025
- Discovery of Effects of Retinol on Human Skin Aging in Individuals of East Asian Descentrandomized controlled trial (RCT) · 2015
Evidence Scores are computed mechanically from the published research (PubMed / Semantic Scholar / OpenAlex): study design, participant numbers, and consistency across studies. An LLM is used only to extract study data, never to decide a score.
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