Skincare After Laser, Peels & Microneedling

The general shape of a recovery routine is simple and deliberately boring. For the first two to three days, keep it to a non-foaming or low-foaming cleanse with lukewarm water, a barrier-supporting moisturiser, and daily sun protection once your clinician clears it. From roughly day four to day seven, you can reintroduce hydration and soothing ingredients — ceramides, ectoin, hyaluronic acid, panthenol — while still leaving actives out. From week two onwards most people can phase actives back one at a time, starting with the gentlest, and leaving retinoids, high-strength vitamin C and acid exfoliants until last. Reintroduce one product every three or four days so that if something does react, you know which one it was.

What to avoid in the early window is fairly consistent across treatment types: retinoids, AHAs and BHAs, high-percentage vitamin C, physical scrubs, fragrance, essential oils, and anything described as resurfacing. Hot showers, saunas, chlorinated pools and vigorous exercise are also worth pausing while the skin is still flushed, because heat drives redness. Your treating clinician's instructions always take precedence over general guidance — they know which device was used, at what setting, and on which skin type.

If you want one product for this window, it is the Ex-C Regeneration Cream. It was formulated for exactly this situation rather than adapted to it, and its ingredient list reads like a recovery brief: ectoin, an osmolyte that helps skin hold water and stay stable while it is stressed; ceramide NP, one of the lipids the barrier is actually built from; sh-Oligopeptide-1 (EGF), a signalling peptide; and shea butter to slow water loss from the surface. Ectoin appears in no other CUSKIN product — it is here because of what this cream is for. Pair it with a gentle cleanser, a pH-balancing toner and a hyaluronic serum and you have the whole first week covered.

From week two, once the skin is calm and you are reintroducing actives, the Vitamin U line becomes relevant. CUSKIN's patented Vitamin U complex (methylmethionine) sits alongside niacinamide and adenosine in the Vitamin U Serum and Cream, aimed at firmness, tone and fine lines. That is the right work for recovered skin and the wrong work for skin three days post-laser — niacinamide in particular is worth introducing slowly on a barrier that is still settling. Treat it as the step after this page, not during it.

CUSKIN's relevance here is a matter of lineage rather than marketing. The brand was developed inside CU Cleanup Dermatology, a Korean clinic group established in 2001 that now operates eight branches, and the formulas were built from clinical data gathered across those clinics — including for skin recovering from in-clinic procedures. Products are manufactured in CUSKIN's own CGMP-certified facility in Osong Bio Valley under ISO 22716 and MFDS certification, and shipped to Australian customers from Melbourne.