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“As long as that kitchen sink is full of solid skin-care ingredients, backed by actual data showing they can improve things like dullness (which is pretty easy to do) and firmness, a more difficult task that Dr. Shamban says is best left to the holiest of holy skin-care ingredients: retinoids. “We know from 30 years of research that that’s what works,” Dr. Shamban says. Melissa Doft, MD, a board-certified plastic surgeon in New York City, calls these vitamin A derivatives “the strongest ingredient that we have available” in the skin-care world. “Retinol [one type of retinoid] is going to pump up the skin and build up collagen,” she explains. Dr. Doft also recommends plumping ingredients like peptides and hyaluronic acid to ”make the skin look a little bit more alive.””