Prescription skincare, assessed online and made for your skin. A licensed BC prescriber reviews you, and Carebridge compounds your tretinoin in the exact strength and base your skin tolerates, then delivers it to your door or has it ready on Main Street.
The single best-evidenced ingredient for aging skin is a prescription retinoid. Over months, tretinoin improves fine lines, texture, tone, and pigmentation by speeding skin-cell turnover and supporting collagen, results the gentler over-the-counter retinol products approach slowly, if at all.
The catch is tolerance. Start too strong and skin flakes, stings, and reddens, and most people quit before the benefit arrives. Commercial tretinoin comes in a handful of fixed strengths; compounding lets a prescriber start you below the lowest of them, step up gradually as your skin adapts, and pair the retinoid with soothing or brightening ingredients in one nightly cream. That is how prescription skincare becomes something you actually keep doing.
This program pairs a licensed BC prescriber, who assesses online with no visit fee, with a compounding pharmacy that makes your formula on Main Street. It is the online side of Carebridge's dermatology compounding.
These are educational examples, not recommendations. Your prescriber sets the retinoid strength and the added ingredients for your skin, and every preparation requires a prescription. Retinoids are not used during pregnancy or breastfeeding.
These formulas are examples only, provided for education. Compounded preparations are not Health Canada approved manufactured products. Retinoids increase sun sensitivity, so daily sunscreen is essential, and they are not used during pregnancy or breastfeeding. Whether any preparation is appropriate is a decision for your prescriber. Pricing is confirmed with you before dispensing.
The Skin Renewal clinic is [status to confirm]. Join the waitlist and we will contact you when intake opens. When it does, the path is simple, and the prescriber visit is billed to MSP for eligible BC residents through a licensed BC online clinic, so there is no visit fee.
You share your skin concerns, history, and photos in a short private form.
A licensed BC online clinic reviews you and prescribes if appropriate. Billed to MSP; no visit fee.
Carebridge prepares your tretinoin in the strength and base your prescriber specifies.
Free delivery across Metro Vancouver, or convenient pickup at our Main Street location, with pharmacist guidance on use.
Assessment and prescribing are performed by an independent licensed prescriber. Joining the waitlist or submitting an intake does not guarantee a prescription. A dedicated online intake form is [status to confirm].
We are building a focused prescription-skincare site for acne, melasma, and skin renewal, with the Skin Renewal clinic and our tretinoin program at its centre, connected to this pharmacy for compounding, dispensing, and delivery. It will link back here. Ask us to be notified when it launches.
Retinoids work slowly and reward patience. The first few weeks often bring dryness, flaking, or mild irritation as skin adjusts, sometimes called the retinization period; it settles. Visible improvement in fine lines and tone usually takes three to six months of consistent nightly use, and continues with time. Starting low, buffering with moisturizer, and using sunscreen every morning are what make it tolerable and effective.
Your pharmacist helps you through the adjustment: how much to apply, how often to build up, what to pair it with, and when to ease off. If your skin is not settling, your prescriber can lower the strength or change the base.
Prescription retinoids are not used during pregnancy, while breastfeeding, or when trying to conceive; tell the prescriber if any of these apply. Retinoids increase sun sensitivity, so daily broad-spectrum sunscreen is essential. This program is for cosmetic skin renewal and general skin concerns; a new, changing, bleeding, or unusual skin lesion needs in-person assessment by a physician, not an online skincare visit. Assessment and prescribing are made by a licensed prescriber, and a prescription is not guaranteed.
No. For eligible BC residents, the prescriber consultation is billed to MSP through a licensed BC online clinic, so there is no visit fee. You pay only for your compounded medication, and we confirm that cost with you before dispensing.
Over-the-counter products use retinol and related ingredients, which are gentler but much slower than prescription tretinoin. Compounding adds a second advantage over even commercial prescription tretinoin: your prescriber can choose a strength between or below the fixed commercial options and combine the retinoid with soothing or brightening ingredients, so it is tuned to your skin and easier to stay consistent with.
Some dryness or flaking is common in the first few weeks as skin adjusts, which is exactly why we start low and buffer with moisturizer. Your pharmacist coaches you through it, and your prescriber can lower the strength or change the base if needed. Most people settle within a few weeks.
Retinoids are gradual. Texture and tone often improve first, with fine lines following over three to six months of consistent nightly use, and continued benefit after that. Daily sunscreen protects the progress.
No. Prescription retinoids are avoided during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and while trying to conceive. Tell the prescriber if any of these apply, and they can discuss pregnancy-safe alternatives.
Yes. If you already have a prescription, you do not need the clinic at all; send it to Carebridge and we compound and deliver it. See our dermatology compounding page for details and more formulas.
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Join the waitlist and be first in when the Skin Renewal clinic opens. Prescription strength, tuned to your skin, with no visit fee and free delivery.