# MyAgenix > MyAgenix (trymyagenix.com) is a UK skincare guidance service. Three photos and a few questions give a plain-language read of how your skin looks across eight concerns, then a morning and evening routine with specific products chosen to fit your skin, goals and budget. It is cosmetic guidance to help people choose products; it is not a medical service and does not diagnose or treat any condition. ## What this site is authoritative on - Honest evidence grading of skincare ingredients, routines and trends: strong, good, emerging, or no good evidence, with the sources linked in every article. - UK-specific context: how cosmetics, sunscreens and supplements are regulated here, what a pharmacist can supply, and when to see a GP. - A personalised routine tool: a consultation that reads three photos and a short questionnaire and matches products sold by UK retailers. ## Key pages - [Is there an app that tells you what skincare to use?](https://www.trymyagenix.com/skincare-app): Yes. MyAgenix is a skincare app that runs in your browser: three photos and a few questions, then a routine of products chosen for your skin. - [How it works](https://www.trymyagenix.com/how-it-works): Three photos and a few questions, then a read of how your skin looks across eight concerns, and a morning and evening routine built from it. - [What you get](https://www.trymyagenix.com/what-you-get): A personalised morning and evening routine, product picks at your budget, in-store scanning, a diary of your consultations and an optional meal planner. - [How we grade the evidence](https://www.trymyagenix.com/methodology): The four evidence grades MyAgenix uses, what we will not claim, how product picks are made, and why affiliate links never change a ranking. - [FAQ](https://www.trymyagenix.com/faq): Answers about photos and privacy, accounts, cost, and how MyAgenix makes its recommendations. - [About MyAgenix](https://www.trymyagenix.com/about): Who is behind MyAgenix, how to contact us, and what MyAgenix is and is not: cosmetic guidance to help you choose skincare products. - [Articles](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles): Twenty-five plain-language skincare articles graded by the evidence: trends, common skin issues, sunscreen, retinol and the actives worth knowing. ## Articles ### Trends and routines - [Korean skincare: what is worth copying, and what is just a trend](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/korean-skincare): Ten steps, snail mucin, glass skin. Here is what the K-beauty habit gets right, and the parts you can skip. - [“Natural” skincare: why the word means nothing, and what to look at instead](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/natural-skincare): There is no legal definition of natural for cosmetics. Poison ivy is natural. Here is a better question to ask. - [Your skin barrier, slugging, and why less is often more](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/skin-barrier): The internet has only just discovered the skin barrier. Science has known about it for decades. What it is, how people wreck it, how to look after it. - [Skin cycling, skin flooding and the rest of the viral routines](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/skin-cycling): Four nights on, two nights off, and the other named routines. Which ones are sensible repackaging and which are nonsense. - [The microbiome and barrier repair, minus the marketing](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/microbiome-barrier): Pre, pro and postbiotics, beta-glucan and ceramides. What the skin barrier actually needs, and what it does not. - [Gentle exfoliation is replacing the strong stuff](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/gentle-exfoliation): Mandelic acid, PHAs and enzymes are having a moment. What exfoliation does, and how often is too often. - [Viral skincare myths, checked](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/skincare-myths): Beef tallow, pore shrinking, drinking water for glowing skin, expensive equals better. Short answers with the reasoning. ### Common skin issues - [Breakouts and acne](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/acne): Blocked pores, spots and cysts. What actually helps, what a pharmacist can sell you, and when it is a GP job. - [Facial redness and rosacea](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/rosacea): Flushing, lasting redness and visible vessels. Why the usual skincare advice often backfires. - [Dry, itchy skin and eczema](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/eczema): Barrier problems, the itch-scratch cycle, and why moisturiser is the treatment rather than an afterthought. - [Dark marks, melasma and uneven tone](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/pigmentation): Marks left by spots, patches driven by hormones, and sun spots. Different causes, different answers. - [Sensitive and reactive skin](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/sensitive-skin): Stinging, tightness and reactions to products. Usually a damaged barrier or an ingredient you can identify. - [Oily skin and visible pores](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/oily-skin-pores): Shine, blackheads and the pore-size question. What can change and what genuinely cannot. - [Dark circles and tired-looking eyes](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/dark-circles): Three different causes, and creams only help one of them. How to work out which you have. - [Skin in perimenopause and menopause](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/menopause-skin): Dryness, adult acne, thinning skin and hair. What changes, why, and what actually helps. - [Teen and tween skincare: what is actually needed](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/teen-skincare): Twelve-year-olds are buying retinol. Here is what young skin needs, and what to put back on the shelf. - [Men's skin, shaving and the things nobody mentions](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/mens-skin): Ingrown hairs, razor burn, thicker oilier skin and sun damage. A short routine that covers it. - [Fungal acne, and why acne treatment makes it worse](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/fungal-acne): Itchy, uniform little bumps that will not shift. Often not acne at all, and the fix is completely different. - [Body acne, back spots and rough bumpy arms](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/body-acne): Chest and back breakouts, and the goosebump texture on upper arms that is not acne at all. ### The research - [Sunscreen is the one step the research is loud about](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/sunscreen): If you only change one thing in your routine, this is it. What the studies found, and how to pick one you will actually wear. - [Retinol without the misery](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/retinol): The most studied cosmetic active for the look of fine lines, and the one people give up on fastest. How to start so you do not. - [The ingredients worth knowing, graded by the evidence](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/ingredients-graded): Strong, good or emerging. Our honest grade for the actives you see on every shelf, and what each is best for. - [Do collagen supplements do anything for skin?](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/collagen-supplements): A big review looked at 23 trials. The answer depends almost entirely on who paid for the study. - [LED masks, microneedling pens and home devices](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/home-devices): Which at-home gadgets have real data behind them, which are a professional treatment in a weaker costume, and which to avoid. - [How to read a skincare label without being fooled](https://www.trymyagenix.com/articles/reading-labels): Ingredient order, the 1% line, what claims are regulated and what a percentage on the front really tells you. Content on this site may be quoted with attribution to trymyagenix.com and a link to the page quoted.