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, and it is dry, hot summer.

I want to talk to you guys about all the things you're feeling

with your skin feeling dry, tight, itchy and irritated. Summertime will do that to you.

On the beginning of summer, you feel great getting all that additional sun and vitamin D.

You get that glow, the acne clears up. But by the end of summer, and when

the heat is really on, we get dryness, scaliness, irritation, and barrier disruption. The skin

barrier is one of the most important things for you to maintain to have healthy and gorgeous skin.

The skin barrier is a hydrolypid barrier.

It's a natural protective layer that lives directly on top of your stratum corneum or the most

superficial layer of your skin.

It's made up of sebum, lipids, water, sweat, and it's sort of like a finishing layer.

And this is the skin security guard. It's sort of like a barrier for bad entry. It stops things

from getting into your skin. And it protects you. It provides an environment for your skin's

microbiome. So billions and trillions of

organisms live within your skin microbiome. And they are residing within the skin barrier. If you

don't have enough skin barrier, this hydrophilic, hydrolypid area of your skin, if it's dry,

tight and irritated because you've been going into too

much water, too much chlorine, too much abrasiveness, dryness, sun, sunburn, you're going to have

a disrupted skin barrier. You need a strong barrier to protect your skin and otherwise damaging

substances can penetrate and enter the surface of the skin.

Your skin will dehydrate and dry up quicker.

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