Is It Worth It? My Review of Rodan + Fields REDEFINE Regimen

First published November 2020. Fully rewritten October 2026 with long-term results, current pricing and where to buy.

Short answer: yes, the Rodan and Fields Redefine regimen works, and I’d buy the full set again. I used all four steps most days for a few years and reordered it with my own money. The only reason it isn’t on my bathroom counter right now is that it turned out to be too much for my skin alongside a prescription retinoid.

If you go looking for reviews of this regimen, you’ll notice that most of them were written after about two months of use, and a lot of them date to the fall of 2020, when the line was reformulated and sent out to bloggers. Mine started the same way. What I can add now is what happened after those two months were up: what held up, what irritated my skin, what the set costs today, and who I think should skip it.

So the real question is this: is Rodan and Fields worth $210 when there’s a whole drugstore aisle of anti-aging creams? Here’s what a few years of use taught me.

Quick Verdict: Is Rodan and Fields Good?

• Would I buy it again? Yes, the full set.
• Best for: skin that’s starting to look dull or less firm, which is where mine was at 30.
• Be careful if: you use a prescription retinoid or your skin is sensitive. Start slower than the box tells you to.
• Price: $210 for the full-size regimen, $125 for the 30-day size.
• Favorite product: the Pore Refining Toner.

What Is Rodan and Fields?

Rodan + Fields (R+F for short) is a skincare brand founded by two dermatologists, Dr. Katie Rodan and Dr. Kathy Fields (the same pair who created Proactiv). The idea behind the brand is the regimen. Instead of buying one cream, you buy a set of products designed to be used together in a set order. Each set is built around one concern. Redefine is the regimen for fine lines, enlarged pores and loss of firmness (they had me at enlarged pores). I wrote more about the brand’s background in my post on R+F’s dermatology-inspired approach to anti-aging and skincare.

Is Rodan and Fields an MLM?

For a long time, it was. You probably first heard about it on a friend’s social media. In September 2024 the company dropped the multi-level structure. Consultants still exist, but they now work as affiliates who earn on their own sales, with no commissions for recruiting. You don’t need a consultant to order.

R+F has also moved into stores. It launched at Ulta in March 2025, and in September 2026 it announced an expansion to 400 Ulta locations along with a launch on Amazon Premium Beauty.

I’m including this because I think the old sales model made a lot of people distrust the products themselves. How a company sells its toner tells you nothing about whether the toner works.

What’s in the R+F Redefine Regimen

The Redefine regimen is four products in three steps: cleanse, tone, then a moisturizer with SPF in the morning or a night cream in the evening. Since the 2020 reformulation there’s a choice at almost every step, so you can build the set around your own skin.

Step	Your options	What I used
Cleanse	Daily Clay Cleanser or Daily Foaming Cleanser (4.2 oz)	Daily Foaming Cleanser
Tone	Pore Refining Toner (4.2 oz)	Pore Refining Toner
Morning	Triple Defense Cream SPF 30 or Triple Defense Lotion SPF 30 (1 oz)	Triple Defense Cream
Night	Overnight Restorative Cream or Overnight Reparative Lotion (1 oz)	Overnight Restorative Cream

One thing worth knowing before you choose: the two night options are not the same formula in different textures. The Restorative Cream uses bakuchiol, a plant-derived alternative to retinol. The Reparative Lotion uses an actual retinoid. If you already use a prescription retinoid like I do, choose the cream (or maybe skip this line altogether).

Rodan and Fields Redefine Reviews: Product by Product

Redefine Daily Foaming Cleanser

I chose the foaming cleanser over the clay one because it’s the gentler of the two. I use a pea-sized amount and massage it over my face and neck for 30 to 60 seconds on the mornings I’m not rushing, then rinse with a damp washcloth. It works into a light lather and takes off oil, dirt and makeup.

What to know: it contains AHAs for mild exfoliation. You don’t feel them while you’re washing, but they count toward how much exfoliating your skin is doing in a day. I didn’t notice at first but I’ll talk more about that in a second.

⭐ Favorite Overall: Redefine Pore Refining Toner

In my original review I called this the holy grail of the system and I still think it’s the product doing the most work. It has vitamin B3 (niacinamide) and fruit acids, and I apply it with a cotton ball to my face and neck, then give it a few seconds to dry before moisturizer.

It’s also the step that got me into trouble. For the first few days I had more redness and sensitivity than before I started, so I cut back to every third day and worked up from there.

What to know: don’t start this toner twice a day, whatever the instructions say. Every third day for the first couple of weeks is plenty.

Redefine Triple Defense Cream SPF 30

I’m picky about moisturizers with SPF. I can’t stand when they have a white tint on your skin or they smell overly of sunscreen. This one does neither. A pea-sized amount absorbs in about the time it takes me to brush my teeth, and my skin feels moisturized afterward without being oily.

I picked the cream over the lotion because I started in late fall and wanted the thicker texture for the colder months.

What to know: SPF 30 in a moisturizer covers an ordinary day of school drop-off and errands. For a full day outside I’d still put a dedicated sunscreen on top.

Redefine Overnight Restorative Cream

This is the rich one. It’s a thick, deeply moisturizing night cream with peptides, vitamin B3, glycolic acid and bakuchiol. It goes on after the cleanser and toner at night so you wake up to moisturized skin.

What to know: glycolic acid is another exfoliant. Between the cleanser, the toner and this cream, Redefine exfoliates at three of its four steps. That’s great for dull skin, and it’s the reason the regimen eventually clashed with my prescription.

Rodan and Fields Before and After: What Changed in My Skin

I didn’t take side-by-side photos, so this is my before and after in words.

Before. I started Redefine in the fall of 2020, right around my 30th birthday. Over the year or two before that, my skin had gotten duller and lost some of its fullness and firmness. I’ve always been prone to redness and splotchy patches, and I’d get one or two large hormonal pimples every month before my period.

The first two weeks. Rough, and partly my own fault. I had increased my prescription retinoid the week before I started, then used the full regimen twice a day from day one. My skin got red and sensitive fast. I stopped everything for a full week, paused the retinoid, and restarted with the toner every third day.

At two months. This is when I wrote my original review. My skin tone was noticeably more even, with less redness and fewer splotchy patches. The hormonal breakouts went from one or two large pimples to one very small one, or nothing at all. My skin felt softer, smoother, firmer and more hydrated.

After that. I kept going. I used the full regimen most days for awhile and reordered it when I ran out. I don’t rebuy $200 skincare that isn’t doing something.

For comparison, here’s what R+F reports from its own eight-week study of the regimen: 94% of participants said their skin felt softer and smoother, 91% noticed firmer skin, 85% said their skin looked plumper, and 79% noticed less visible lines and wrinkles. Those are self-reported numbers from the brand, so read them that way, but they line up with what I saw at the two-month mark.

How to Use the Redefine Regimen (My Real Routine)

My morning routine with Redefine looked like this:

1. Rinse my face with a clean, damp washcloth.
2. Massage in a pea-sized amount of the foaming cleanser for 30 to 60 seconds, face and neck, then rinse.
3. Swipe on the toner with a cotton ball and let it dry for a few seconds.
4. Apply a pea-sized amount of Triple Defense Cream SPF 30 and let it absorb while I brush my teeth.
5. Primer and makeup (if it’s a makeup day).

At night it’s the same cleanser and toner, followed by the Overnight Restorative Cream.

The whole thing takes a minute or two. And in the interest of full disclosure, when I first reviewed it I was doing the complete morning routine about 70% of the time. The other days I either skipped washing my face or swiped on micellar water around 2pm when I realized I’d forgotten. (I’ve never been a perfect twice-a-day person, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise in a skincare review.) I still got the results above so don’t stress too much about following everything to a t.

What I Love and What to Know

What I love:

• Results I could see by two months, especially the more even tone and fewer hormonal breakouts.
• An SPF moisturizer with no white tint and no sunscreen smell.
• Every bottle is labeled with its step and when to use it, so there’s nothing to figure out.
• You choose the texture at the cleanser, morning and night steps.
• The 60-day money-back guarantee, which takes some of the risk out of a $210 first order.

What to know:

• Three of the four products contain exfoliating acids. Sensitive skin needs a slow start.
• In my experience it does not combine well with a prescription retinoid.
• It’s designed to be used as a full set, so this isn’t a brand where you try one $50 product and decide.

Why I Stopped Using Redefine

I want to be specific here, because “I stopped using it” usually reads as “it stopped working,” and that isn’t what happened.

I use prescription tretinoin, and I’ve written about my experience with the Dear Brightly retinoid here. Tretinoin is the one product in my routine I’m not willing to give up. Redefine exfoliates at three of its four steps, and for my skin the two together were too harsh. I wrote in that review that the combination was hard on my skin and damaged my skin barrier, and that’s still the most accurate way to put it.

When I had to pick one, I picked the prescription. These days my routine is built around tretinoin and the gentler serums I use with it.

If you’re not on a prescription retinoid, none of this applies to you. If you are, I’d choose one or the other, and if you want to try both, ask whoever prescribes yours first and see how your skin tolerates it. In general I think we are too heavy on active ingredients at the detriment of our skin barrier.

Redefine vs Reverse (and the Other R+F Regimens)

R+F recommends using one complete regimen at a time, so the choice comes down to your main concern:

• Redefine: fine lines, enlarged pores and loss of firmness.
• Reverse: discoloration and uneven skin tone, with a brightening focus.
• Unblemish: adult acne along with visible signs of aging.
• Soothe: visible redness, dryness and sensitivity.
• Recharge: a balancing routine aimed at younger skin.

Redefine is the one I used long term, so it’s the one I can speak to. I will say that evening out skin tone is technically Reverse’s job, and Redefine did that for me anyway.

Rodan and Fields Redefine Price and Where to Buy

The full-size Redefine regimen is $210 on the Rodan + Fields site. Bought separately, the same four products come to $265, so the set saves you about 20%. When I first reviewed it in 2020 the set was $220, which makes this one of the few things I buy that costs less now than it did then.

There’s also a Redefine 30-Day Regimen for $125 with smaller sizes of the clay cleanser, toner, Triple Defense Cream and Overnight Restorative Cream. If you’ve never used R+F, that’s where I’d start.

You can buy Redefine in three places now:

• rodanandfields.com, with or without a consultant.
• Ulta, online and in select stores, which carries the 30-day regimen and individual Redefine products.
• Amazon Premium Beauty, which R+F announced in September 2026. On Amazon, check that the seller is Rodan + Fields itself.

Is there a Rodan and Fields promo code?

I don’t have a standing promo code to give you, and I’d be wary of coupon sites that claim to. Here’s where the real savings are:

• Buy the regimen as a set whicih gets you 20% off the price of buying the products individually
• Check the banner at the top of the R+F site before you check out, since that’s where current sales are posted.
• If you shop at Ulta, your Ulta points apply.
• Use the 60-day money-back guarantee if it doesn’t work for you. It refunds the purchase price (but not shipping).

Conclusion: Would I Buy Rodan and Fields Again?

Yes. If I weren’t using prescription tretinoin, the full Redefine set would be back on my counter. It made a visible difference in my skin within two months which is a lot more than I can say of other skincare I’ve tested over the years.

I’d skip it if you’re already on a prescription retinoid, or if your skin is reactive enough that three exfoliating products sounds like a bad idea (it probably is). If $210 isn’t in the budget, I’ve reviewed lower-cost options too, including The Ordinary, Dime Beauty, and my favorite serums for sensitive skin.

If you do try it, start with the 30-day size, use the toner every third day for the first two weeks, and take a photo of your bare face on day one. I didn’t, which is why my before and after is in words only.

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