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.

We're talking about fermented ingredients to feed your skin, fermented foods. And I'm a big fan.

I started drinking kombucha and eating kimchi years ago and until my daughter showed me a video

of how kombucha was made, that was the only

thing that dissuaded me a little. But I'm back on my kick. I drink kombucha all the time. I have

yogurt. I eat kimchi and fermented foods and you guys should too. How many of you eat kimchi or drink

kombucha to boost your health. Besides consuming these fermented ingredients,

did you know, you can apply fermented skincare on your skin also? And this is a Korean trend,

but fermentation and skin care is popular in many cultures, Indian, Korean being some of the ones

that have used this technique for thousands of years, actually.

Eating fermented foods is normal in the diets of many ethnicities, not so common in the average

American diet, but it's a trend that is poised to help take over the beauty industry and

really revamp the surface of your skin.

The skin, of course, has a surface that's covered with normal healthy bacteria, probiotic

bacteria that encourages the skin to do well.

And when the balance of the skin is disrupted, if you're stripping too much oils away

from the skin, if you're braiding the skin with too much exfoliation, you will change the bacterial

and fungal surface counts of the skin, and you can drastically affect the skin. And restoring that

balance is important. So fermented skin care is helpful.

Fermented skincare consists of products with fermented ingredients like yeast, probiotics, enzymes, and actual bacteria that makes the products more effective and potent.

You can find fermented ingredients these days in many things like cleansers, serums, exfoliators, and

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