@jessyantiaging: Menopause changed my face faster than I could process. In the first five years after menopause, skin can lose about 30% of its collagen, then roughly 2% each year after that. The retinol science mattered too: the 2008 paper in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology found that about 1.3% of applied retinol was absorbed through the skin while the rest remained in the surface layers. I stopped chasing stronger and rebuilt smarter. #menopauseskin #matureskincare #retinol #glassskin