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

and today on the podcast, it's time for a five minute

Friday and spring is in the air it's time to talk about brightening the skin and

getting rid of winter dullness so I love the months of March April and May for

doing chemical peals and people always get shocked and horrified by the idea of putting

a chemical on the

skin and having the skin get essentially a very controlled burn. But I want to remind you that

chemical peels are some of the best things that you can do for your skin. The modern peels are

nothing like older peels. So you don't get red, raw, irritated.

You definitely have the ability to modulate and improve your skin with low-grade chemical peels.

And for those of us that have hyperpigmentation, that's actually the best way to treat it,

is medium to mild depth peels that are done more frequently to give you great results.

Remember that pigment is tattooed into the dermal layer of the skin.

The melanocytes that do grow melanin in your skin are triggered by certain factors,

including abrasion, friction, repeated things like repeated waxings, acne eruptions, inflammatory lesions that cause

pigment to grow. Also by sun, of course, ultraviolet light, heat is another factor, just

temperature change itself and exposure to the elements.

So the reasons that we do chemical peels are to get rid of these layers of pigmentation

that are tattooed into various levels and depths of the skin.

I would recommend, if you've never done a chemical peel,

to start with a low-grade glycolic,

lactic, and salic acid peel.

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