How to Calm Rosacea and Redness (Without Making It Worse)

Rosacea is more than just redness; it's burning, flushing, visible blood vessels, breakouts that look like acne but don't act like it —and, for so many people, it's misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood.

In this episode, we're breaking down what rosacea really is, what makes it worse, and what can actually help calm, heal, and rebuild your skin. Whether you've been struggling for years or just starting to wonder if this is what's going on with your skin, this is the episode I wish I had when I was trying to figure it all out.

The topic of today is rosacea.

Yep.

It's tough. It has different effects, you know —on each person.

Yeah, that's very true. Like some deal with the flushing.

Yeah.

Some have a lot of the broken capillaries, and you have the people that have like the acne rosacea, where it's really not acne because, like, when you have acne, acne is generally filled with like pus, right?

But when you have rosacea, it's not filled with pus. So it's like you can't always target it the way you would normally target acne, because there's no bacteria or pus in there.

Yeah, it's completely different. And there are prescriptions, of course, that you can be on for rosacea, and we're not going to go over those because that's obviously something between you and your doctor.

Right.

But we can talk about things that we have that we feel are comfortable for you to use.

Yes. Let's talk about a couple of triggers —things that can trigger, like heat.

Heat, alcohol. I know alcohol is like the biggest one ever.

Yeah.

Like, people drink that, and they'll get instant red cheeks and…

Yeah.

And that's where you have the histamine response, I guess.

Yeah. And then all the broken capillaries from that. Like you think, what was it, W.C. Fields, President Clinton, or a couple of others that…

One of the... Prince Harry, I guess.

Prince Harry. Yeah.

He has rosacea.

The rosacea. And you have to be careful: if you do have rosacea — or if you think you have rosacea —let's just say this right off the bat: never just try to treat it at home, right? Go to a doctor.

Right.

Get yourself diagnosed. And if they have specific requests, follow your doctor's instructions. Because, like, when you're looking at, let's say, W.C. Fields, certain things that aren't... I think he was like, drank a lot, and a couple of things, and that's where his nose got so big and all this discard and growth and stuff like you have to prevent that.

Right.

You know? So, what your doctor's saying —you have to follow that. Do not self-diagnose.

Got it.

You can have broken capillaries without having rosacea.

Sure.

You can get facial redness without having rosacea.

You might just have reactive skin.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly.

So get yourself diagnosed. But if you know you have rosacea. And if you're following your doctor's advice, you're moving forward. Then that's different.

Let's focus on some actual products that can help with rosacea, calm things down, and make the skin more manageable.

Yes. And the first one that I want to grab is vitamin C. So Secret Agent VI here. Vitamin C itself is an anti-inflammatory.

It is really, really good for rosacea redness. I learned that from an esthetician who used to work for us.

Yes.

Like she had rosacea, and she said she always had the redness and all that kind of stuff, and she started using the vitamin C, and she was like, ‘It's like I don't even have rosacea anymore.’

Right. Yeah.

I remember her saying that. This was a long time ago.

I recall.

Probably like 20 years ago.

Yeah.

And that's kind of what I learned from her, and I'm like, ‘Yeah, you know what, it made sense when you look at the properties of vitamin C and the properties of rosacea.’

So something like Super Agent VI. And this one isn't L-ascorbic, so it doesn't have the acid. It's not going to be stingy or burny like our old one used to be.

Right.

This is predominantly THDA, then Kakadu Plum and several other antioxidants. But so this one's not gonna burn or anything like that. It's very soothing, healing, stimulating, and helpful for redness.

I think this is one of the first things I grabbed. The other thing —the other major thing I grabbed — is copper. And copper can be helpful if you have broken capillaries.

And it's not that it's going to heal those broken capillaries. That's not how copper works. But copper does strengthen the capillary formation.

So when your capillaries are being formed again, they're stronger and less likely to break. So that is a very beneficial one. And that was just something I learned from Dr. Pickart many, many years ago about strengthening the capillary formations. Like it's just engraved into my brain. I just remember that now.

So copper is another one. And you don't want to put C and copper on at the same time, right? So put your C on during the day and put your copper on at night. Just think copper is blue, dark, dark blue skin, sky, whatever.

Put the copper —the dark stuff —on at night. Put your light, bright C on during the day.

Perfect. All right. What other daily products do we have here? I see some hyaluronic acid.

Other dailies. Yeah, because I always kind of want to soothe and heal the skin.

And there are a couple of things with hyaluronic. Our Regenerate also contains hyaluronic acid. Regenerate's another really good one.

For sure.

You could put it on with all the growth factors. Super healing, soothing.

Yeah.

That's a great one. I should have grabbed that one. It's okay. We'll post it on the screen.

Yeah. So, Regenerate or hyaluronic, they're just soothing and healing.

Yes.

Vitamin B is also very relaxing and healing. Like this has B3 and B6, which are like panthenol and niacinamide —both very soothing, healing, and calming.

And that's a moisturizer.

This is a light moisturizer. So if you need more moisturizing, you could add a little bit of emu oil or hyaluronic acid —whatever you want. But this does contain squalene.

I mean, it does contain moisturizing ingredients. It's just not super heavy.

Got it.

But this is super healing and calming, just like vitamin C. Kind of a similar thing, but you know, to give you a little extra moisture.

Other super-healing things —we have this from our Alqemi line, and I'm not telling you to needle it. I don't want you to needle it into your skin.

Right.

If you have rosacea, needling, microinfusion — whatever — it is not necessarily a good option. That causes too much inflammation. You don't want to cause any damage to your skin.

But that doesn't mean that these can't be used daily; they can't be used in other products. Like, you could take this PDRN, add the little dropper, and use it as a normal serum.

You could add this to one of your products. I mean, actually, we'll have another serum coming out soon. That's going to be a PDRN serum for just daily use.

So we will have another product that's going to be like a standalone PDRN for daily use. Whereas we have this, that's like used for needling. This is very precise for needling, though you can use this daily.

Great option. And the same with the exosomes. This is the human adipose exosomes, EXO-AD.

Right.

You can mix these.

Correct.

The PDRN and the AD. You can add the AD to any of your products. Just whatever you add it to, you're going to have to refrigerate because we want to keep our exosomes cold.

And it has to have a preservative as well.

Yeah. Neither of these has a preservative. So you need to add it to another product, or add some of another product to it.

Got it.

You know what I mean? Like I've kind of told people, if you want to use this, I like this little dropper.

And actually, the PDRN — this is really cool; I love it so much. Like I love the control of this little dropper.

Yes, yes.

You know, you take this off, you pop this on, you pull it over, and it fills up, and you just like squeeze a few drops out.

So the PDRN bottle we have —instead of this tiny one — is bigger, but it still has a big dropper on top because I love it.

Yeah.

And then you just turn it over and do like a big squeeze, and then you can use that for your face.

Just to clarify, the new PDRN will have its own preservative.

Yes.

So you won't have to do any mixing or anything. But if you want to use this PDRN…

You would have to mix it with something.

That makes sense.

Yeah. So, like that bigger one — like I said, this is meant for needling — and we have done like super safe serums that are meant to be injected into your skin. So we're following one protocol for these, and then daily products have a different protocol.

They have to have preservatives. They have to include specific things. So that's why that's kind of what spurred me to come out with an everyday PDRN as well. So we will have that coming out soon, and it'll be something we can add to someone with more sensitive, reactive, problem skin, because PDRN is so healing.

Now, retinol isn't always a product someone with rosacea can use.

Not always, but then you see the ones that tell us, 'My skin's sensitive. I have rosacea. This is my regimen. I'm on tretinoin 0.1, whatever.’

I'm like, ‘That's so strong. That would irritate my skin, yet you use it every day.’ So they can use it. So if you want to use a retinoid, I just suggest you use it less often. Make sure it's not irritating or causing inflammation, right?

Right.

Because inflammation causes the problem in rosacea, we want anti-inflammatories. So I would suggest, like, if you're going to do our Fusion A 0.15, you can either mix it with vitamin B to make it a little milder, or mix it with other serums to make it milder.

Maybe even a little emu oil, since it has anti-inflammatory properties.

Absolutely. You can dilute it, use it less often, or do both. And if you just want the retinoid functions without using a retinoid, we have the Essential FX with Bakuchiol.

And Bakuchiol is not a retinoid, but it has been compared to retinol in studies, and those studies show it has very, very similar properties. So this can help your skin, whereas this is not irritating at all.

This is filled with natural vitamin A. This is all essential oils and the Bakuchiol. This is an alternative you could use.

Oh, that's awesome. Let's talk about a peel.

Yeah.

The peel of choice is…

You can do a peel, right? If you have rosacea, we suggest the Mandelic 22. I happen to be holding a 40. I don't know if you can see that.

But we want to use 22. The 22 is the least inflammatory peel we manufacture. I mean, even lactic has more inflammation. Even though it's technically a milder peel, it's not as mild as Mandelic 22.

So that's the one we recommend. Now, I still wouldn't say to do it every single week. I would say maybe every other week, see how your skin accepts it.

If you're fine, it's not causing any intense irritation, you should be fine. And you also don't need to leave it on for a super long time. Maybe you only leave it on two or three minutes, rather than five, 10, or 15, because people can really leave it on longer. After all, it's so mild —maybe you just leave it a little bit less.

And it does have 2% azelaic.

This is a treatment for rosacea. Azelaic is an actual rosacea treatment. So yeah, 20% is Mandelic and 2% is azelaic.

So that is a good option. And I'm not saying you can never, ever do another peel. Like, if you —I'm not saying. That's your personal choice.

Just know that any stronger acid you put on your face runs the risk of triggering an inflammatory response, which could kick your rosacea into action; it may not be a good choice. You might want to ask.

Just from this, us talking it out, I guess I had a kind of light-bulb moment that their rosacea is some sort of, like, you could have sensitive skin and rosacea, or you could have normal to hardy skin and rosacea.

Those are the people who are using Tretinoin 0.1, because people like me with sensitive skin—if I use a 0.1 for more than 3 days, it feels like a whole-face peel.

Oh yeah.

So, yeah. So it depends on how hardy your skin is, and you have to be the best judge of your own skin—just air slow, go slow.

Test. And if it's causing inflammation and you're seeing that your skin is red and warm and doesn't go down real quick. I think I could understand a bit of irritation when you put on an acid.

Yeah.

Okay. A little bit of irritation, but make sure that's gone. Splash, splash with ice-cold water to calm that skin, then put on soothing, calming, healing products, like Emu oil or the Essential healing blend.

Pull out an LED mask on the red infrared setting and put it on for a little while. That's very calming and healing. You can use that on its own as well, which is why it's kind of sitting there.

It's suitable for everything and doesn't irritate your skin. It doesn't cause inflammation. It's very calming and healing for the skin. So, I mean, I think we covered everything —everything we did. Like, all of these are good, but never self-diagnose; always see a dermatologist and have them diagnose your skin.

And if you do have rosacea, be careful with what you're doing. Look, there's a plethora of things you can do to help your skin. And obviously a couple of things to stay away from, but I mean, I think that's…

I think it'll get them on a soundtrack.

I think so.

Yeah.

I think so. So if you have rosacea and are looking for a good regimen, we've got it covered.

Yes.

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