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

And let's do a podcast.

You know, one of my favorite skin care ingredients

is retinae, retinol, retinoldehyde, all the forms of retinol. It is one of the most amazing things

you can do for your skin and I'm going to talk to you all about retinae as well as alternatives to it.

Unfortunately, retinae, as great as it is, is still very irritating. I want all my patients over age 30 on a form of a retinae derivative,

and I want to give you guys options.

Sometimes we all have that retinae that's in our bathroom drawer.

That's a prescription grade, super strong retinae that we managed to get someone to prescribe for us.

And have we ever used it? No. Because you try it on for three or four days in a row and your

skin becomes scaly, raw, irritated, red, peely. It's super drying and super irritating when it's

used directly straight up. It can be a very wonderful ingredient when you teach your skin to

tolerate it. And using your retinae products slowly with pea-sized amounts, two or three nights during

the week, usually every other night, sometimes two nights a week is a great way to start with extra moisturizer, sometimes with short duration application.

That means put it on for 20 minutes and wash it right off.

Sometimes you can use a layer of moisturizer first and then apply your retinae products.

I recommend just a pea size, and that means not a pea in each quadrant of your face. It means take a pee, put it on your

finger, a pea-sized amount of retinae and then use a little quarter pea in each quadrant of the

face. It's one of the best ingredients you can use in your skincare routine to

minimize signs of aging, fine lines, wrinkles, it improves cell turnover. And it is probably the one

major proven ingredient to reverse aging changes of the skin. But for some people, retinol

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