Press and Glow PHA Toner.

"Their press and glow toner is $35, fragrance free and alcohol free, and it comes packaged so you dip your cotton pad in instead of pouring it out, which is convenient. It's an exfoliant acid toner with a very short ingredient list, gluconolactone, which is a gentle polyhydroxy acid, plus a sea extract for antioxidant benefits and aloe for soothing, no fragrance. It's pretty simple and it'll last you quite some time. If you have super sensitive skin or your skin doesn't react well to other AHAs or BHAs, this one's nice. It's great for sensitive skin and very easy to fit into your routine because of how gentle it is, and it's got nice packaging."

"I kind of like Medik8 Press and Glow for this. With a Q-tip you want to make sure that you press away, just roll away any excess fluid. You don't want it to be drippy, you want as controlled an application as possible, especially when you're working around your eye area. I would just gently use it around the areas where I may have milia. Of course, if the milia is right on my eye bag or close to my waterline, I would not use this method. I would highly recommend just going with the eye cream instead. But especially if you have the clusters concentrated around ocular bone, then this may be a good method."

"Another exfoliant that I really love for people who have dry skin and particularly for people who have dry and sensitive skin is by Medik8, it's their Press and Glow PHA Toner. This product uses an exfoliant that maybe a lot of people have not heard of or not familiar with. It uses a polyhydroxy acid called gluconolactone. Polyhydroxy acids in general tend to be more gentle than alpha hydroxy acids, and gluconolactone specifically is really good at both exfoliating and hydrating the skin. So someone has tried to incorporate things like lactic acid or glycolic acid and found them to be too irritating, using something that uses polyhydroxy acids can be a nice way to still include an exfoliant but in a more gentle way. In my practice I treat a lot of patients who have facial eczema or rosacea and these patients still want to exfoliate, they still want to remove that dead skin cell layer, but a lot of products just don't play nice with their sensitive and dry skin. So if I have a patient like that who wants to exfoliate because their eczema or their rosacea is under good control, I will often have them start with a PHA type of product to reduce the risk of inflammation afterward. Similar to a lot of exfoliants this has a very lightweight liquidy texture. So I would apply this first thing on clean skin. You could do it in the morning or in the evening. If you're doing it in the evening I would skip any retinoid that you're using at that time until you know if you can tolerate this well, and then if you are able to use it every day without irritation then bringing it in."

"I recommend the Medik8 Press and Glow PHA Toner. That's super gentle. You actually apply it like a toner pad. It contains 5.5% glucono lactone, which is one of the polyhydroxy acids. It's really gentle, and for someone with more eczema, rosacea, and dry skin, I think this is really nice to incorporate into your routine a few times a week. Polyhydroxy acids are more considered [...] a humectant, but over time it can certainly slowly improve that skin texture and skin radiance. This is something I really love if you have sensitive skin."