Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K., Secrets of a Plastic

Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute Friday.

Today, let's talk all about exfoliation and why you need to exfoliate, why your skin is going to look

awful if you don't exfoliate at least twice a week. Summer is here. We all have dullness, dryness, and dead skin sitting on the

surface of our skin that's causing us to look older. And it's time to scrub it all off,

exfoliate, and get ready for summer. Get that fresh, glowy, summer glow look. Well, so what are the

reasons that you need to exfoliate? Step number one,

regular exfoliation is one of the best acne preventative things you can do. It sweeps away the

dead skin cells on the surface of the skin and it prevents your sebum and oils from becoming too

thick and building up. I recommend exfoliating at least twice a week. I typically will do that in the

shower. Exfoliation is a physical manipulation of the surface of the skin. So we're physically

sandpapering very lightly with a very gentle ingredients and removing and buffing that top layer of the

skin. Skin always looks healthiest when it has

alignment of the skin cells, when the skin cells have a polish, when they have a smooth,

even surface, and that happens quite often when we exfoliate. If you exfoliate with things that are

too harsh and too rough and irregular, you are going

to create surface micro tears of your skin. We do not want to buy cheap stuff at the market, at CVS,

and those places, and these apricot type scrubs that have very dull granules that can really abrade, irritate, cut the

surface of the skin and leave microtairs are not going to be beneficial. You can use them in rough

areas of the body like your heels, your elbows, your knees, but your face is so precious. We really

need to use refined products to exfoliate here. Only will you be removing a layer

of dead surface epithelium that does not need to be there, but you're going to allow the penetration

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