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Melanage peel without post treatment products?

CR972Jan 2, 2015
I had a very cheap melanage peel but I guess the trade off is that I was not given the post treatment products. Can someone help me out and tell me what are the products about? I have hydroquinone 8% and retin A at home, can i use these? thank you so much

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