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. Let's talk

all about what moms need for their skin. And there are so many ages and stages that we go through as

women. And it's so important to understand what your skin needs at each of these transitions

in your life. So I thought I get a lot of questions from pregnant ladies

and breastfeeding ladies about what we can do for our skin during these various times.

So I'm going to talk to you about pregnancy, acne, and adolescence, about breastfeeding,

about the times when you're having low estrogens and menopause, high estrogens

and flare-ups, and busy mom's skin. I love, love, love the idea that you need to take care of

your skin differently at each age and stage of your life. And that begins in adolescence, when your

skin is extra oily, when your oil glands produce

oils in a disorganized fashion, and that tends to cause breakouts. There are slow drainage of the

oil glands. We need to use products that are exfoliators, like exfoliating scrubs, glycolic washes that

remove dead skin from the layers and surface of the skin.

Retinae products like our diamond line refine is amazing that brings dead skin to the surface

and that creates this organizational structure where your oil glands drain better so they don't plug as often.

And I also love good benzoporoxide wash as well as a spot treatment.

These are the things that are going to help with acneic skin. That's true not only for adolescents,

but also for moms and people in their middle ages who are developing hormonal acne around the mouth.

We call it perioral acne,

perioral dermatitis. Very common that it will flare during stages of estrogen dominance.

And then let's talk about what we do during pregnancy.

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