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

It's time for a five-minute Friday,

and I'm going to teach you all about skin cycling. Do you know what skin cycling is? Because it

took me a little while to learn about it. Turns out I've been doing it, but not knowing that it was

called skin cycling. But skin cycling is trending. This is a simple, a very effective routine

you can incorporate into your skincare regimen to boost and amplify the results of your

skincare products. And this has recently been so popular on TikTok, one of my colleagues, Dr. Whitney

Bo, a dermatologist, described what skin cycling is.

And basically skin cycling is this routine of rotating your skin care in order to reduce

irritation from really potent ingredients like salicylic acid, glycic, glycic acid, and retinoles.

And we cycle through a phase of step one, exhalating, step two,

using a product that boosts and amplifies collagen productions like retinoles. And step three,

allowing the skin to recuperate and regenerate. Step four, kind of moisturizing and allowing

the cycle to reset. So skin cycling is a four-part nightly routine that helps with uneven texture and breakouts.

If you look up, hashtag skin cycling, guess what, there are 3.5 billion views on TikTok alone.

Usually this is a regimen that you're going to do at night before bedtime.

Cleanse and pat your skin dry. And then you have a choice of where you want to start in your

cycle. If you're feeling dry, you start with moisturizer. If you're feeling dull, you start with

exfoliate. Or if you're feeling like you're ready to rejuvenate, you put on your retinal.

So depending on where you are in the cycle of your skin, our skin has a cycle.

Estrogens, if you're a female, definitely cycle through periods of oiliness, dryness, and irritation.

Or you'll put on moisture, depending on where you are in the four-night cycle.

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