Skin cycling is the gym for your skin. It’s a way of applying your skincare on a four-night rotation to maximise the benefits for skin, leaving it clearer, smoother and firmer. Nights one and two are your active nights, and nights three and four your recovery nights – much like a gym regime.

Skin cycling typically involves using two key actives as well as hydration. On night one, you use glycolic acid or a similar exfoliant to exfoliate the skin, getting rid of build-up and dead skin. This ensures skin is clear and prepped for your next active and enhances its benefits. On night two, you use retinol, which is renowned for boosting collagen production for firmer skin as well as its ability to plump out fine lines and wrinkles and diminish pigmentation. On nights three and four – the non-active nights – you only use hydration to replenish skin. You then start the cycle again.

Everyone can benefit from skin cycling, but it’s particularly suited to blemish-prone, dull, congested and/or pigmented skin.

The Rodial Skin Cycling Kit

Our Skin Cycling Kit contains six products to get you started with the regime and includes some of our most-loved icons.

Bee Venom Cleansing Balm

Vit C Brightening Cleansing Pads

Retinol Resurfacing Pads

Retinol Eye Serum

Dragon’s Blood Hyaluronic Velvet Cream

Dragon’s Blood Hyaluronic Jelly Face Mask

Night One – Exfoliation Night

Step 1: Bee Venom Cleansing Balm

Formulated with salicylic acid, which helps to exfoliate inside pores and clear them of debris and build-up, as well as our signature skin-firming bee venom peptide.

Step 2: Vit C Brightening Pads

With lactic and glycolic acids to gently exfoliate skin, which helps to get rid of build-up and decongest skin. A salicylic acid and fruit acid complex helps to tighten pores while vitamin C brightens.

Step 3: Dragon’s Blood Hyaluronic Velvet Cream

Four hydrating ingredients help lock in active ingredients, minimise irritation and keep the protective skin barrier nourished.

Night Two – Retinol Night

Step 1: Bee Venom Cleansing Balm

Step 2: Retinol Resurfacing Pads

The sister product to our Vit C Brightening Pads. Retinol boosts collagen production, plumps out fine lines and targets pigmentation, while hyaluronic keeps skin hydrated and niacinamide diminishes the appearance of pores.

Step 3: Retinol Eye Serum

Brand new for 2023, this lightweight, cooling gel-like serum specifically targets fine lines and wrinkles around the eye. With added Haloxyl™ and arnica to depuff and target dark circles.

Step 4: Dragon’s Blood Hyaluronic Velvet Cream

Nights Three and Four – Hydration Nights

Step 1: Bee Venom Cleansing Balm

Step 2: Dragon’s Blood Hyaluronic Jelly Mask

Two intense hydrators, dragon’s blood and hyaluronic acid, help replenish skin moisture and soothe.

Step 3: Dragon’s Blood Hyaluronic Velvet Cream

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