Your skincare routine, built on evidence and signed by plastic surgeons

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How the tool decides

The routines this tool builds were not written by a copywriter: they are worked out by an engine that the two plastic surgeons who sign it have reviewed product by product. It works in four layers, in order of authority:

  1. What the signatories set for each product — for which skin, in which range, at which step — with their wording on record.
  2. The safety rules, read off the ingredients list (INCI), never off the advertising: whether a product contains a retinoid or an exfoliating acid is decided by its composition.
  3. Each manufacturer’s official literature — the AllSkin Med brochure, the ZO Skin Health portfolio, the SkinCeuticals and mesoestetic data sheets — which sets the skin type, the timing and the method of use, and the current scientific evidence: published trials and reviews that say what each active really does, how long it takes to show and who it was measured in. When a product’s advertising and the literature disagree, the literature governs.
  4. A heuristic that only makes a suggestion where none of the above applies, and it is shown as a suggestion.

The two ranges are set by price within each step, mixing brands: a €52 cleanser is expensive and a €52 serum is cheap. Neither range is made to look cheaper by leaving a step empty: if a product is missing for your skin, one is taken from the other range and we say so.

What it asks you, and why

The questions follow the four axes of the Baumann Skin Type Indicator — oily or dry, sensitive or resistant, pigmented or not, wrinkle-prone or tight — a validated instrument translated in several countries, rather than the commercial taxonomy of “four skin types”. How your skin is for most of the year sets the base (cleansing, moisturiser, sunscreen); what you would most like to improve sets the night treatment; whether you have used retinol or acids sets the step you start on; and three questions about your situation — recent surgery or treatment, pregnancy or breastfeeding, a diagnosed skin condition — decide whether the tool recommends, stops at the base or refers you. The last question, whether you want your sunscreen to be tinted, is not a cosmetic one: in pigmentation, a sunscreen with iron oxides blocks part of the visible light, and in a melasma trial it did 15% better than the same factor without tint.

What the tool does not do

  • It does not diagnose. A patch of pigmentation, persistent redness or inflamed spots are reasons to see someone, not to take a test. If you say you have a diagnosis, the tool takes it into account: with severe acne it stops at the safe base and refers you; with rosacea or melasma it gives you the routine that does not make them worse and tells you that treatment and follow-up are medical.
  • It recommends nothing in pregnancy or breastfeeding. It refers you to the medical team. That is a decision by the signatories, not an oversight.
  • It does not replace an individual assessment. Every result ends at the same door: if you have questions, or you want to fine-tune the recommendation, the medical team will go through it with you, free and with no obligation.
  • It does not identify you. It asks for no email and no phone number, sets no cookies of its own and stores nothing in your browser. We do count — anonymously, and with no way of linking two visits — how many people use it, which question they stop at and which routines come out: that is what tells us what to improve.

Your result is not one of eight fact sheets

The tool does not choose between eight ready-made routines: it builds yours. It crosses your skin type with your priority, with however much experience you have of active ingredients, with your situation — surgery ahead, a recent wound, a scar — and with whether you want your sunscreen tinted and in which shade. That is almost a thousand different combinations, and each one is also resolved in two ranges, with its weekly calendar and its warnings. Which is why two people with the same skin can come out with routines that look nothing alike.

What does exist, to read at leisure or to share, is the general version of each case, written and signed:

Who signs it

Dr Enrique Salmerón González (registration no. 46/4624077) and Dr Elena García Vilariño (registration no. 46/4624503), Specialists in Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Instituto de Cirugía Plástica del Mediterráneo (Valencia). The engine’s rules are the ones they set, recorded in their own wording. This tool is for information and does not replace an individual medical assessment in clinic.