This year, the skin renewal specialists at SkinMedica are celebrating 25 years of creating innovative skin care products rooted in scientific research with clinically proven results. With this milestone, the company recently debuted Your SkinMedica Method, which will help you easily put together a personalized skin care routine for healthy, glowing skin.

“SkinMedica’s products are designed to build upon each other,” says LovelySkin CEO Dr. Joel Schlessinger, board-certified dermatologist, Mohs surgeon and cosmetic surgeon. “What I appreciate about Your SkinMedica Method is it lays out a clear path for choosing the products that will work best for you.” Follow along as we dive into the latest details, including:

• What is Your SkinMedica Method?

• How does Your SkinMedica Method differ from the GRASS regimen?

• What SkinMedica products should I use?

What is the SkinMedica Method?

Your SkinMedica Method is a daily regimen you can customize to help meet your skin’s most pressing needs. Creating your own personalized skin care routine is as simple as picking one or more products from these five different categories:

The Cleanse Factor: This first step includes facial cleansers and treatment pads for every skin type. The goal of the Cleanse Factor is to remove impurities and prep your skin for all of the potent active ingredients in the upcoming steps of Your SkinMedica Method.

The Growth Factor: This step is dedicated to SkinMedica’s revolutionary growth factors. These naturally occurring cells help improve the appearance of sagging, wrinkles and fine lines by helping new skin grow in a healthy manner by stimulating cell growth repair.

The Correct Factor: You’ve reached the heart of your personalized skin care routine. It’s time to target a wide variety of skin concerns due to aging and environmental stressors by customizing your specialty creams. Options include creams to address redness and fine lines, retinol to enhance skin texture or a multi-step treatment to help fade melasma and other stubborn hyperpigmentation. This step is also when you can dedicate some time to specific areas with a depuffing eye cream or smoothing neck cream.

The Hydrate Factor: Moisture and hydration are important to skin health all year round. In this step, you can choose from hydration boosters such as a hyaluronic serum, dermal repair cream or ceramide-based moisturizer.

The Protect Factor: High-quality, broad-spectrum sunscreen is the capstone to any personalized skin care routine. You help guard your skin from the damaging effects of the sun’s UV rays and other environmental stressors with the perfect facial sunscreen to meet your needs, whether it’s a mineral-only, tinted or untinted formula.

How does Your SkinMedica Method differ from the GRASS Regimen?

The new SkinMedica Method replaces the GRASS Regimen, an acronym that SkinMedica introduced in 2014 to help patients choose their skin care products based on the key ingredients that help slow signs of aging: G for growth factors, R for retinol, A for antioxidants, S for serum or specialty products and S for sun protection.

Your SkinMedica Method replaces GRASS, and we think you’ll find that it’s easier to follow because it details the products you can choose to use in the order you will use them, starting with cleansing and continuing from there.

What SkinMedica products should I use?

Your SkinMedica Method is all about building a personalized skin care routine based on your skin concerns and overall skin goals. If you’re focused on evening out your skin tone and targeting stubborn hyperpigmentation, such as dark spots or acne scarring, here’s a sample SkinMedica routine we created using Your SkinMedica Method.

Step 1: The Cleanse Factor

To cleanse your skin and prepare it for all of the beneficial ingredients to come, start with SkinMedica AHA/BHA Exfoliating Cleanser. This mildly exfoliating facial wash removes excess oil and makeup while encouraging healthy skin renewal with salicylic acid and ultra-fine jojoba beads.

Next, you’ll use the SkinMedica Even & Correct Brightening Treatment Pads, which help remove pore-clogging impurities and brighten skin with glycolic acid.

Step 2: The Growth Factor

You guessed it: This step is all about SkinMedica’s groundbreaking growth factor technology! SkinMedica’s cult-favorite serum TNS Advanced+ has two chambers that combine active ingredients every time you use it. One chamber features SkinMedica’s next-generation growth factor blend as well as an innovative peptide complex, while the second chamber contains Renessence Advanced, a blend of botanicals and marine extracts specifically created to support the growth factor blend. You’ll see visible results with just two weeks of use and continued improvement all the way through 24 weeks.

Step 3: The Correct Factor

Because this is a customized skin care routine to target stubborn hyperpigmentation, it’s time to use SkinMedica’s Even & Correct Collection to correct issues that affect the evenness of your skin tone, such as melasma, dark spots and dark patches.

SkinMedica Even & Correct Advanced Brightening Treatment Serum and Even & Correct Dark Spot Cream both feature LTN Complex, a blend of lotus sprout extract, tranexamic acid and niacinamide that works together to address skin discoloration. The serum also contains Vitis vinifera, an antioxidant-rich ingredient that helps protect against free radical damage. The dark spot cream features a supporting cast of brightening ingredients—retinol, vitamin C, glycolic acid and a derivative of kojic acid— and is intended to be used as a spot treatment on your most stubborn areas of discoloration.

To improve radiance and support firmness and elasticity, this step also includes the SkinMedica LUMIVIVE Day & Night Antioxidant System. This two-step system helps your skin defend against the damaging effects of environmental aggressors, such as pollution and blue light, during the daytime with LUMIVIVE Day Damage Defense Serum, while LUMIVIVE Night Revitalize Repair Complex contains nurturing peptides to help your skin recover overnight.

Step 4: The Hydrate Factor

Hydration is not to be overlooked in your personalized skin care routine. “Our skin naturally changes as we age, and older skin doesn’t hold moisture as well as younger skin,” Dr. Schlessinger says. For this step, you can support your skin’s moisture level with SkinMedica HA Rejuvenating Hydrator, a hydrating serum that helps your skin replenish its natural supply of hyaluronic acid. As a result, you can expect to see smoother, softer-looking skin and less prominent fine lines and wrinkles.

Step 5: The Protect Factor

Last but not least, it’s time to protect your skin from future photoaging due to UV rays. SkinMedica Total Defense + Repair Broad Spectrum SPF 34 Sunscreen is a broad-spectrum facial sunscreen that combines physical and chemical ingredients (8% zinc oxide, 3% octisalate and 7.5% octinoxate) to protect against harmful UVA and UVB rays. As an added bonus, it also contains antioxidant ingredients to help repair existing signs of photodamage, such as fine lines and wrinkles, at the same time it prevents new ones from forming.

You can learn even more about the clinical results and innovative ingredients in SkinMedica’s Even & Correct Collection on the LovelySkin Blog.