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. Today we're going to talk about one of my favorite skincare ingredients. It is retinae.

Remember good old retinae. It's the amazing wrinkle smootener. It's what every woman over 30 should be using. And men too. I'll just throw

those men in there, but you know, this is mainly for you women, because our skin actually is

thinner and ages worse than male skin. Retinae is an amazing vivenate derivative, and this is the

one clinically proven skincare ingredient that

is known to prevent fine lines and wrinkles and increase skin dermal thickness and improve

skin turnover but i want to talk about some of the myths out there related to retinae and just

explain it in a little more depth because it's so

important for you to be using it. I love it. I recommend it to all my clients and it's my favorite

product. One of those things really you can't live without. I love my diamond line refine. That's our

starter retinae and then I have a high dose retinol that's amazing

once your skin gets used to it. So you might think that all ingredients, starting with the letter

are retinol, retinolic acid, retin aldehyde, retin A basically do the same thing. But no,

prescription formulas contain retinoric acid, the magic

ingredient that fights visible aging changes. And non-prescription alternatives are good, but they

need to be converted in your skin surface to retinoric acid at the cellular level. Retinol

that's over the counter is a little more

gentle than retinoric acid, but biochemically it does exactly the same thing. It just may take

a longer time to see the results. It doesn't achieve the same amount of change at the cellular

level. So when you see ads for things that are over the counter like oil

of o'lay or rock or whatever these brands are, it's great. I applaud you for using some form

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