Regimen

Scrub this morning?

Where you are in the build

Rules that keep this working

Never the ZO Accelerator and the Minimalist serum on the same night. Same job, doubled irritation.
On Minimalist nights, skip the pad step — that serum already has salicylic in it.
Mineral SPF every morning, no exceptions, once acids are running most nights.
Scrub goes on every other morning, small amount, and Thayers pairs with it instead of the ZO pads.
A raw or stinging week is a ZO week or an off week. Minimalist says skip it on compromised skin.
If your skin stalls at week six or eight, add the ZO pads back to twice daily before changing anything else.
Tell Rachel what you actually swapped, so she's reading your results against the right routine.