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

And today we're going to talk all about

caffeine. It's time for a wake-up call. I'll use skincare lovers if you don't have caffeine

as one of your ingredients in some form of your skincare. I want you to get on it. You use coffee,

tea, and caffeine in general for mornings for wake up it's

definitely an integral part of my life i can't live without it but this simple ingredient of caffeine

is slowly integrating itself more and more into skincare i know it sounds simple but caffeine

infused skincare products do have anti-aging and wrinkle-smoving benefits.

Let's teach you all about the benefits of caffeine in skin care. So normally, when you drink caffeine, you are getting a high dose of caffeine, usually about anywhere from 60 to 100 milligrams for a strong

cup of coffee dose. It's very different when we use topical caffeine. Caffinated beverages are loaded

with sugar, artificial preservatives, and things that you wouldn't necessarily put on your skin.

We like topical application of caffeine because it's much more direct.

Lower dose, it's healthier. It doesn't have to go through the bloodstream to work. And it can

be applied by tapping, gently rubbing, or just infusing it into your skincare routine. Mostly, we

don't recommend rubbing too aggressively when you're applying ingredients.

Remember that rubbing can create shearing forces and microcracks in your skin,

irritation, and pigmentation.

We want to avoid aggressive treatments on the skin.

And caffeine is one of those products that you can gently tap in.

This is a stimulant. As we know, caffeine is a natural stimulant. It can cause vasoconstriction,

tightening up of your blood vessels. So that is an interesting feature of it because when we

vasoconstrict and tighten red blood vessels, we make the superficial

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