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Future Formula with Tretinoin.

Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin
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About this product

A customized prescription serum containing tretinoin and up to three additional active ingredients selected by a dermatology provider based on your skin concerns and quiz responses.

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The Guru Index verdict

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What the gurus are saying

Gurus consistently praise tretinoin as a gold-standard anti-aging ingredient and report visible improvements in fine lines, texture, firmness, and pigmentation. The standout appeal is Agency's personalized approach: a dermatology provider assesses your skin via photos and a quiz, then prescribes a custom formula at a strength suited to you, not just the standard pharmacy doses. Reviewers highlight the transparency of knowing exact percentages on the label and the ability to add complementary actives (niacinamide, azelaic acid, hydroquinone) for their specific issues. The community consensus is strong and entirely positive, though all reviews are sponsored.
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"I started off with azolic acid with prescription online services so I first started with Curology back in 2016 and continued onward with their sister brand Agency, which I currently use now."
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"For about the past 5 years I had been getting my tretinoin from Agency in their Future Formula and I love this product. The tretinoin is the key ingredient to use if you have a ton of sun damage. If you can keep that layer thin while thickening the deeper layers, then your skin looks plumper, it looks firmer, your wrinkles look reduced, and as an added bonus, it also helps a little bit with discoloration. Agency is more of a customized cream that's made with your skin in mind. So they'll put in three other active ingredients besides your tretinoin. If you've been using Agency for a long time and you love Agency and you don't want to switch, then there is absolutely no reason for you to switch from Agency."
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"I go in with my Agency Future Formula with tretinoin. It's also got azelaic acid and tranexamic acid. I love this part of my skincare routine so much because I really feel like tretinoin is the most effective portion of my entire skincare routine. It's also available only by prescription here in the US, so in order to get tretinoin you have to see a doctor or dermatology provider, which Agency can provide you with as a telemedicine company. The way it works is you go on their website, answer a questionnaire, upload some pictures of yourself, describe what your concerns are whether it's just general aging, redness in your skin, sagging, wrinkles, rosacea, whatever it is you tell your provider what you're concerned about and then they pick the ingredients that will go into your Future Formula to address your concerns."
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"The product that contains the tretinoin is their Future Formula, but it also contains three other active ingredients that are selected by my skincare provider at Agency specifically for my skin concerns. I love that Agency sets me up one-on-one with a dermatology provider who looks at the pictures of my skin, looks at the answers to my quiz, and who then recommends the active ingredients, but not just the active ingredients, the amount of the active ingredient that is going to be the best for my skin. If you are a newcomer to tretinoin, they're going to recommend a much lower percentage of tretinoin in your Future Formula than they will in mine. Agency's dermatology providers can give you exactly what you need for your skin because all of our skin is different. What goes into my Future Formula doesn't need to be the same as what goes into yours. That is one of the best things about this service, it really is almost customized just for you. They choose from a limited ingredient deck, but what they're choosing from are the most effective, the most proven ingredients that you can get. They're not wasting your money on a bunch of ingredients that don't really do anything. For me, there's nothing better than looking at the back label on my Future Formula and seeing the exact amount, the exact percentage of each of my active ingredients that are inside my bottle, so I know I'm getting an effective dose."
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"I've actually been using this for almost two years now and I love it. Tretinoin is the gold standard, it is the way to go in anti-aging skincare. There's nothing else that is proven like tretinoin to work in your skin to produce more collagen, to reduce wrinkles, to brighten your skin by thinning the outer dead layer of skin while thickening the deeper layers of skin. The main ingredient that's proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to do that safely is tretinoin. The way it works is you snap a couple of pictures of your skin, you upload them to their website, they set you up with a one-on-one consultation with a dermatology provider and they're there to look at your skin and to address your concerns by prescribing the right ingredients in your formula. These formulas have four active ingredients and they have a whole list of the best, the most proven anti-aging active ingredients to choose from."
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"The three active ingredients that I have in addition to my tretinoin are for redness in the skin and they have really helped to clear up the redness in my skin and to clear up the discolorations. I've seen the biggest improvements to date through my 10 years of tretinoin use just in the last couple of years since I switched to Agency. It's really powerful, the things that they combine in here."
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"For about the past 5 years I had been getting my tretinoin from Agency in their Future Formula and I love this product. The tretinoin is the key ingredient to use if you have a ton of sun damage. If you can keep that layer thin while thickening the deeper layers, then your skin looks plumper, it looks firmer, your wrinkles look reduced, and as an added bonus, it also helps a little bit with discoloration. Agency is more of a customized cream that's made with your skin in mind. So they'll put in three other active ingredients besides your tretinoin. If you've been using Agency for a long time and you love Agency and you don't want to switch, then there is absolutely no reason for you to switch from Agency."
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"This is from Agency and this is my Future Formula and this is the one that has tretinoin in it. The cool thing about Agency is that they mix in other ingredients to address whatever is happening on your skin. So let's say you're aging and you want the tretinoin for wrinkles but you also have a lot of redness in your face or you have discolorations or you have a lack of firmness, they'll put four active ingredients into your formula that will address exactly what you want to address in your skin. They also set you up one-on-one with a dermatology provider who recommends the ingredients in yours and they're there for you to communicate with. They give you a whole sheet of information on how to use it and what your other skincare around it should be, and then if you have any problems you can write back to them and they'll help you right through the portal. You know exactly what you're getting in your bottle because on the back it shows the percentage of each ingredient. With tretinoin the standard percentages that you get from the pharmacy are 0.05% or 0.1%, but with this service they offer so many different percentages. I really like it because the other ingredients in mine are specifically for redness in the skin."
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"It can really help to protect and build new collagen which keeps your skin looking plump and firm and more youthful. It reduces wrinkles, it turns over the dead skin cells on the surface making your skin look glowier and brighter. My age spots are disappearing, my redness is practically gone, and my skin just looks so much better without makeup. I absolutely love my Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin."
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"With Agency, you can get custom prescription skin care without having to leave your house. This is custom prescription skin care that can help with those older stubborn dark spots. It can also help with things like texture, fine lines, wrinkles, or in my case, like I'm trying to preserve the smoothness. I want the smoothness to keep trucking on for as long as possible. I've been using tretinoin since my 30s, but tretinoin is something you need a prescription for. But I have my Agency Future Formula which I've been using for the past 2 years. I do keep my skin glowing and protected with their Future Formula. Mine contains tretinoin, you know the gold standard ingredient for anti-aging. With Agency, you also get access to a licensed dermatology provider and a portal with detailed information on how to use your custom prescription formulas, when to use it, what to use it with, what not to use it with. And if you ever have any questions, you can message them and they'll get back to you."
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"Tro is an amazing gold standard skincare ingredient that comes with plenty of receipts that it can help with not only with things like lines texture and wrinkles but it can also help repair some of the damage that is done to our skin from UV exposure. With Agency you can get access to gold standard skincare ingredients like tro and hydroquinone, these are things that require prescription without ever having to leave your house. You take a skin quiz, you send over photos of your skin and a licensed dermatology provider at Agency is going to look all of this over and determine which of these gold standard ingredients are going to go into your custom prescription and what percentage you might need them at, because not everybody's skin is the same."
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"The future formula that I'm using, which is their anti-aging custom serum, has 1% dexpanthenol which is an ingredient that moisturizes the skin and helps to reduce itching and flaking, 5% tranexamic acid which helps to even the skin tone and helps with discoloration, and 4% niacinamide. Niacinamide helps with a bunch of things for the skin including helping to strengthen the skin's barrier, it helps with discoloration, and it also acts as an antioxidant. And it might even be less costly than what you've already been buying over the counter. A two-month supply of the future formula is going to be $80 per shipment."
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"They have a Future Formula which contains ingredients like tretinoin. Tretinoin is a gold standard ingredient that can help with a number of skin issues from skin texture, skin tone, fine lines and wrinkles. It's actually what I use to maintain my skin's vibrancy and tone."
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"If you want some more information check them out, you take an online skin quiz you take pictures of your skin you send that over to your licensed Dermatology provider they look things over they'll give you a custom prescription based on your specific skincare needs they follow up with you. Whichever way you decide to get your prescription topical it is still going to take time you got to be consistent and you got to be patient but you must carefully follow your provider's instructions."
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"With Agency, you can get custom prescription skin care without having to leave your house. This is custom prescription skin care that can help with those older stubborn dark spots. It can also help with things like texture, fine lines, wrinkles, or in my case, like I'm trying to preserve the smoothness. I want the smoothness to keep trucking on for as long as possible. I've been using tretinoin since my 30s, but tretinoin is something you need a prescription for. But I have my Agency Future Formula which I've been using for the past 2 years. I do keep my skin glowing and protected with their Future Formula. Mine contains tretinoin, you know the gold standard ingredient for anti-aging. With Agency, you also get access to a licensed dermatology provider and a portal with detailed information on how to use your custom prescription formulas, when to use it, what to use it with, what not to use it with. And if you ever have any questions, you can message them and they'll get back to you."
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"My custom future formula contains 0.035% tretinoin, 1% Dexpanthenol which helps to moisturize the skin and helps to also reduce itching and flaking, it also has 5% tranexamic acid which helps to even the skin tone and it also has 4% niacinamide which performs many functions for the skin including strengthening the skin's barrier and helping to even the skin tone. My goal right now is preventative and maintenance. I don't really have any major things that I need to do with my skin. I'm just trying to preserve and keep it looking good."
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"Agency the future formula is fantastic. If you have acne they're probably going to put things in like tretinoin which is this retinoid, they're probably going to put in niacinamide, they're probably going to put in some of these ingredients or even azelaic acid that can help with acne and redness. Agency gives you a bigger bottle and they also have dark spot formulas so if you have like dark spots and scars they're fantastic."
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"Agency is phenomenal, especially if you are someone who has pigmentation in your skin. If your skin has these red or brown marks that are left over, agencies products are so good. Their Future Formula is amazing. It is so absorbent and it is one of the most potent."
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"Agency the future formula is fantastic. If you have acne they're probably going to put things in like tretinoin which is this retinoid, they're probably going to put in niacinamide, they're probably going to put in some of these ingredients or even azelaic acid that can help with acne and redness. Agency gives you a bigger bottle and they also have dark spot formulas so if you have like dark spots and scars they're fantastic."
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"This is one of my favorites, this is the Future Formula from Agency. You need a prescription strength retinoid if you want the strong stuff. If you want to treat active acne, scars, wrinkles, and pigmentation, you're going to use retinoids and things like that to treat those."
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"For signs of aging tretinoin is the gold standard it has completely transformed my skin it does all the things from softening the appearance of lines as well as pores it even helps toughen the skin so it is less prone to damage it evens the skin tone helps fade pigmentation it helped a lot with just refining my skin texture and ensuring that the cell turnover is happening I believe this is also really helping and just keeping things firm and from just falling and drooping. I just love the tread glow so you all know that my trap formula is from the agency. Agency was developed to focus solely on well aging needs and I can't use the traditionally prescribed tretinoin formulas out there because they come in two strengths both of which are just way too high for me so it's a 0.025 or a 0.05 percent and that's just way too strong for my skin."
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