How these conditions are actually treated
One clinic for each condition: what over-the-counter care can achieve, how long a fair trial takes, and what a clinician adds. Education, not medical advice.
18 clinics, one per condition
- Acne Therapy guide What if none of these work? When acne needs more than over-the-counter care. Checkpoint Twelve weeks on the full combination
- Eczema Therapy guide What if moisturising isn't holding it? When eczema needs more than the pharmacy aisle. Checkpoint Four to six weeks of a properly-dosed routine
- Melasma Therapy guide What if the brightening serums aren't touching it? When melasma needs more than the aisle. Checkpoint Twelve weeks on photoprotection plus one active
- Rosacea Therapy guide Calming products aren't calming it? Where rosacea stops being a skincare problem. Checkpoint The 12-week checkpoint
- Fungal acne Therapy guide Acne treatment making it worse? The bumps that aren't acne at all. Checkpoint The four-week checkpoint
- Contact dermatitis Therapy guide What if it keeps coming back no matter what you switch to? When a rash needs a name, not another cream. Checkpoint Four to six weeks from the strip-back
- Hyperpigmentation Therapy guide What if the dark spots outlast every serum? When fading needs more than the brightening aisle. Checkpoint Twelve weeks of one active over guarded skin
- Dandruff Therapy guide What if the flakes shrug off every shampoo? When dandruff needs a prescription pair of eyes. Checkpoint Four to eight weeks on the shampoo ladder
- Nail fungus Therapy guide What if the pharmacy 'nail fungus' aisle can't cure nail fungus? Mostly, it can't — here's what actually can. Checkpoint The checkpoint here is a decision, not a product verdict
- Facial seborrheic dermatitis Therapy guide Clears every time and returns every time? That pattern has a name and a fix. Checkpoint The eight-week reading, taken in two parts
- Keratosis pilaris Therapy guide Bumps on the backs of the arms that no amount of scrubbing shifts. Checkpoint The twelve-week checkpoint
- Perioral dermatitis Therapy guide A rash that clears on steroid cream and returns worse each time it stops. Checkpoint The eight-week checkpoint
- Ringworm, jock itch & athlete's foot Therapy guide The cream works in three days. The label asks for four weeks. That gap is the whole condition. Checkpoint The checkpoint sits at the label's finish date, not at the mirror's
- Tinea versicolor Therapy guide Pale patches after a summer? The infection clears fast, the colour does not. Checkpoint The four-week checkpoint
- Warts Therapy guide The wart treatment on the shelf works. The twelve-week course it needs is the part nobody finishes. Checkpoint The twelve-week verdict
- Psoriasis Clinician guide This one is not a self-therapy pathway, and building it as one would be dishonest.
- Actinic keratosis Clinician guide A rough, scaly patch that keeps coming back on sun-exposed skin is not a texture problem, and no product on this site treats it.
- Acne scarring Clinician guide Most of what gets called an acne scar is discolouration that fades and responds to products.
Every other section of this site ends at a product. These pages don't. A therapy guide maps the whole arc of a condition — what over-the-counter care can genuinely achieve and for whom, how long a fair trial takes before it has been given a fair chance, what signals that a clinician is needed, and what dermatologists can offer that no product can.
They are written for the point at which the shelf has already been tried. Three diligent months with nothing to show for them is not an argument for a fourth serum, and this is the part of the site that says so.
Looking for products instead?
These guides are the map; the catalog is the shelf. At the start of a condition rather than the end of it, products by condition and the starter routines are the better door — every product on the site is independently scored, and the guides link into exactly the same catalog wherever over-the-counter care is the right answer.