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Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin
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About this product

A prescription tretinoin serum customized by a licensed dermatology provider through a telemedicine consultation, formulated with tretinoin and three additional active ingredients selected for individual skin concerns.

Guru Score

85%

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What they liked

  • Absorbs well, potent formula

What they flagged

    Nothing. None of the experts who reviewed it raised a problem.

    What the gurus are saying

    The tretinoin formulation earns consistent praise for delivering visible results on lines, texture, and pigmentation, with reviewers particularly noting that Agency's lower starting strengths (0.002% to 0.025%) make tretinoin accessible to those who find standard prescription concentrations too strong. The personalized approach stands out: a dermatology provider reviews your skin photos and concerns, then selects from proven actives like niacinamide, tranexamic acid, and azelaic acid to pair with your tretinoin dose, meaning the formula is tailored to your specific needs rather than one-size-fits-all. Reviewers recommend being patient and consistent, as results take time and require careful adherence to your provider's instructions.
    Synthesized from 6 expert reviews · most recent take July 2026

    What the gurus are saying.

    Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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    Yay
    "I've been through so many jars of my Future Formula. Future Formula is the prescription formula of tretinoin that Agency compounds for me personally. I've been on a journey to increase my tolerance for retinoids and I started out at 0.002%, and now I'm up to 0.025%. So I'm continuing on my retinoid journey and enjoying the products that Agency is delivering me month to month. It's a subscription formula that you can do online for personalized prescription skincare."
    Yay
    "I started off with [azelaic] 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."
    Yay
    "My Future Formula from Agency is still something that works well for me. This is custom prescription skincare, mine has 0.14% tretinoin, 5% azelaic acid, 5% tranexamic acid, and 4% niacinamide. Tretinoin is an ingredient that's long been studied and is very effective in an anti-aging routine, it helps with rough texture, fine lines, wrinkles, and evening the skin tone, and you only need the tiniest amount. Azelaic acid can help calm the skin, which can aid with hyperpigmentation and rosacea. Tranexamic acid also helps with discoloration, and niacinamide is an antioxidant that helps strengthen the skin's barrier and can help with both dry and oily skin."
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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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    "My future formula now contains 0.1% tretinoin. Tretinoin is an amazing skin care ingredient that has been around for decades. It helps with so many things with the skin. It helps with rough skin texture. It also helps with the visible signs of aging, which is why I use it. I use it as a preventative method. It also helps with discoloration. So I find that my skin tone stays more even. My texture is smooth. I get to keep that nice smooth texture on my skin. A little bit goes a long way. You don't want to put too much on. And the thing is, with Agency, which is what I love about them, you don't have to know that previously. The way it works, you take a skin quiz, you answer a couple of questions about your skin and your lifestyle. You take pictures of your skin. You send that over and a licensed..."
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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."
    Skin Transformations That'll Get Your Ish TOGEVA
    "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."
    THIS is Why You STILL Have Dark Spots in 2024
    "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 skincare I use their Future Formula, I've been using this for quite some time. I enjoy working with agency because they make these custom prescription formulas that you can get without having to leave your house. The way that it works is you take a skin quiz, you take a couple of pictures of your skin and you send that over. A licensed dermatology provider at agency is going to look it over and determine which active ingredients and which percentage of the active ingredients they're going to put in your custom prescription formula. For instance, my custom serum has 0.07% tretinoin, 1% dexpanthenol which is something that helps to moisturize the skin and also kind of helps to be like a little buffer from the tretinoin because tretinoin is amazing but it can be a..."
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    "Agency is a long time sponsor of mine, it's where you can get custom prescription skin care without having to leave your house. If you're looking for something to smooth texture or help with discoloration, they have custom prescription formulas, they hook you up with a licensed dermatology provider, and it's really cool. This isn't sponsored by them but they're the real deal. If you don't have access to a dermatologist I highly recommend checking out Agency. I don't use the dark spot formula often, I mostly use the formula that contains tretinoin and azelaic acid, and now they've added tranexamic acid too, it also has niacinamide."
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    "My Future Formula from Agency is still something that works well for me. This is custom prescription skincare, mine has 0.14% tretinoin, 5% azelaic acid, 5% tranexamic acid, and 4% niacinamide. Tretinoin is an ingredient that's long been studied and is very effective in an anti-aging routine, it helps with rough texture, fine lines, wrinkles, and evening the skin tone, and you only need the tiniest amount. Azelaic acid can help calm the skin, which can aid with hyperpigmentation and rosacea. Tranexamic acid also helps with discoloration, and niacinamide is an antioxidant that helps strengthen the skin's barrier and can help with both dry and oily skin."
    Yay
    "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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    "I definitely recommend that everybody get the future formula because that is what contains your Retin-A, your tretinoin, and that really is the most important anti-aging skincare that we have. It's the one that is proven to work with like 40 years of research that shows that it works and that it works so well for reducing wrinkles, for firming up your skin, for reducing discolorations, and for building new collagen in your skin. The future formula is used once a day at night and it goes in perfectly with all my other products."
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    "I have been using Agency for a year and a half already before that I was using their sister company curology which also provided my tretinoin, but when they launched the sister company Agency specifically for the needs of aging skin I wanted to try that and see if I could take my skin to the next level, so I switched over and sure enough it was even better using Agency than it had been using curology. The great thing about the Agency service and the reason that it can really help you to acclimate to using tretinoin without quitting is because they match you up one-on-one with a dermatology provider and the dermatology provider is there to guide you through the entire process. They start off by looking at pictures of your skin and you write down all your skin care concerns and you tell them what you have tried in the past and what is in your skincare routine now. They can pinpoint and address your specific issues and add in the exact ingredients that you need for your skin. Their tretinoin comes in so many strengths that they can start you off on a really really low strength so that you can use it more than once a week and then they can bump you up over time checking in with you before they send you every single bottle to make sure that your skin is okay that you are not having any irritation. They can include other ingredients in the bottle that can help to fight irritation and help to fight redness, so my tretinoin also contains azelaic acid niacinamide and tranexamic acid and two of those are anti-redness ingredients so they have helped to make my skin even clearer and help to reduce the look of irritation in my skin. The best part about it is really the one-on-one with the dermatology provider because they give you so much information on how to use it correctly what you can use with it and how you can develop a skincare routine, and then they check in with you before they send out the next shipment to make sure you are doing okay to either ratchet it back or ratchet it up depending on your skin."
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    "It is where I get my tretinoin which is the gold standard for anti-aging topical skin care there is no other ingredient that has been proven to work like tretinoin. Yes tretinoin can be irritating but you can avoid a lot of the irritation by easing in with it very very very slowly giving your skin time to acclimate so it's still the best thing to use."
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    "I've been using their product for a full year now. I started with them a year ago because I had a new age spot up here on my forehead and it was kind of looking like a little triangle up here, and I gotta say using these together has really faded that triangle dark spot. It's reduced the big triangle and now it's just like two tiny little freckles up there, so I'm so happy with how the combination of these two has really been able to help fade those spots."
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    "I switched to agency so now agency is where I'm getting my tretinoin and this is their future formula in the yellow bottle and I love this service so much so that I became an ambassador for agency. This really is like the best way to get your tretinoin because not only do you get a one-on-one with a dermatology provider who prescribes the medications that go into your future formula but it also gets shipped to your house automatically every other month and so I don't have to think about it. The formulas contain four active ingredients so in mine I have tretinoin which is what is going to help with my wrinkles, azelaic acid, tranexamic acid, and niacinamide. Tretinoin helps to reduce your wrinkles in three different ways: the first way is that it thins the outer layer of skin so you don't have a thick crusty dead skin layer on top that shows your wrinkles more, the second thing it does is that it increases collagen production in your skin, and the third thing that it does is it thickens the deeper layers of your skin. Tretinoin really is the number one ingredient if you're talking about wrinkle reduction because it works in those three different ways that can really help your skin to have fewer wrinkles over time."
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    "My Agency Future Formula has tretinoin at 0.14 percent, which is even higher than you can get from the pharmacy, so I love that I'm at an even higher percentage. I also have azelaic acid at five percent, which is for redness in my skin, and having it in here has really calmed my skin and soothed it and removed a lot of the redness. I have tranexamic acid at five percent and niacinamide at four percent. Instead of having clindamycin in there for acne, I have things that are really for wrinkles, firmness, and anti-redness. I feel like my skin looks so much brighter, so much less red, my wrinkles are reduced, and I absolutely love it. I just wish something like this had been around ten years ago when I was first starting with Retin-A because I wouldn't have started and stopped. What I love about this service is your provider checks in with you every time they're about to send you a shipment to see how your skin's doing, and they can give you personalized advice on how to use it better."
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    "This is where I get my prescription tretinoin and as we know tretinoin is the most effective anti-aging skin care ingredient that you can get and that will really do the heavy lifting in turning back the hands of time. The future formula just like with the dark spot formula also contains four active ingredients."
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    "I'm switching over from Curology to their sister company called Agency. The Future Formula is comparable to your Curology formula and this one would contain your tretinoin along with three other active ingredients. I'm trying Agency because number one I try skincare, that's what I do, and a lot of you guys had wanted to know about it and I can't recommend it to you guys unless I've tried it for myself. The other reason is because it offers you two separate formulas."
    Yay
    "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."
    Yay
    "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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    Frequently asked.

    What is Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin?

    A prescription tretinoin serum customized by a licensed dermatology provider through a telemedicine consultation, formulated with tretinoin and three additional active ingredients selected for individual skin concerns.

    Is Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin worth it?

    Yes. All 6 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 85%.

    What is Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin's Guru Score?

    Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin holds a Guru Score of 85%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 6 expert reviewers we have collected. It is also Guru Certified, our mark for products that hold broad approval across many expert reviewers.

    Who is Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin best for?

    Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin is generally suited to acne-prone skin and mature skin.

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