What is the Perfect Nighttime Skin Care Routine? – Dr. Anthony Youn
have you ever wondered what is the perfect nighttime skincare routine well I’m gonna give it to you here on this video my name is dr. Anthony youn and I’m known as America’s holistic plastic surgeon I help health-conscious men and women look their best by teaching them a holistic approach to beauty and today I’m gonna go over with you what I consider as a holistic plastic surgeon the perfect nighttime skincare routine there’s so much confusion out there about what should you apply to your skin what works what doesn’t and if you go to the drugstore the department store there’s so many products out there and it’s hard for people to know what to use so I’m gonna cut through all the BS with this video and give you the basics of what you need to know to take great care of your skin and to help with anti aging and skin health alright so we’re gonna start off with the first step and the first step pretty straightforward is you have to cleanse your skin now it’s super important at night you have to cleanse your skin some people only cleanse your skin once a day and if you do do it at night not in the morning and this is really important because at night you got to get rid of that day’s worth of pollution that sits on your skin of oil of dirt dried sweat and especially of makeup and you got to let your pores breathe you’ve got to let your skin rejuvenate overnight now there are typically two types of skin technically three that you want to consider different cleansers for the first type is if you have very oily skin if you’ve got oily skin then ideally you want to use a cleanser that’s more of a foaming cleanser that’s gonna help more with the oil of your skin now I’m gonna go over with you some products here today and these are all products from my own skincare line that are made with natural and organic ingredients I’m showing these to you not because I’m trying to get you to buy them but just because this is what I have and I want to just give you some examples but any of these things that I’m going over today you can go to the department store or the drugstore and pick your favorite product there as well okay so once again now if you’ve got oily skin you want to go with a type of a cleanser that’s a foaming cleanser one that will help control the oil of your skin and this is the one that we typically recommend in my office for people with more oily skin it’s called our marine botannical cleanser from you and beauty and so you want to cleanse your skin with that type of a foaming cleanser if you have oily skin well if you’ve got drier skin or sensitive skin then a foaming cleanser may be too aggressive and it may over dry your skin in that case you want to use a cleanser that is more hydrating and more gentle and so in my office and what I recommend for my patients is our green tea cleanser this is a little more mild this is a little more hydrating and moisturizing and so that works really well for people who’ve got more sensitive skin if you’ve got combination skin then you may want to try and see which one seems to work better I would start with the more milder ones like the green tea cleanser because once again if you’ve got combination skin what you don’t want to do is over dry your skin so you got a cleanse in the morning super super important well toning okay so if you were to skip any of these steps this is probably this this step to skip but if you are going to apply a toner what I would recommend is to avoid an astringent now I made a video just a few days ago that posted on the perfect morning skincare routine and I went into detail why astringents are not good and why the classical toners are horrible for your skin especially if you’ve got oily skin so take a peek at that video at the end of this if you want to learn a little bit more about that but toners can be very nice because they can help to is re-establish the pH of your skin and this is our green tea toner from my line and it’s not so much that you want to strip your skin of oils but you want to reestablish the pH a lot of cleansers are basic and they will cause your skin to go into the more basic pH range and the toner will reestablish that just slightly acidic pH that your skin sits at its best at so ideally if you do tone then use one that basically helps to establish your pH but once again this is a step if you want to save money you could conceivably skip it and then this is super important okay you want to apply an anti-aging cream and ideally a retinol or a growth factor or peptide based type of a cream so why would you use one or the other well if you’ve been watching my videos you probably know that retinol is my first choice for anti-aging creams retinol is a type of a vitamin A it’s prescription strength is called Tretton Owen or retin-a and it is scientifically shown to help reduce the aging process to exfoliate the skin to thicken the dermis there’s so much science behind the benefits of retinol and retinol so if you can use a retinol I recommend using it every night because that would be the top option for anti-aging and we’ve got one this is our top seller in my office as well as online it’s our retinol moisturizer from you and beauty so that’s what we recommend if you’ve got just normal quote-unquote normal skin the problem with retinol and especially with prescription-strength cretton Owen is it can be hard for your skin to tolerate some people get some temporary dryness usually that goes away you get some temporary flaking and even some inflammation in most people that goes away but not in everybody so if you’re the type of person that you’ve got real sensitive skin and retinol does not work for you then go for a growth factor or peptide based creams now growth factors are technically a bit more they probably have a little more science behind them than the peptide creams but the problem with growth factor based creams is that they are really really expensive there are some out there there’s one called a TNS complex you know if you really want to look into growth factors take a look into that but it is not cheap but a lot of people love their growth factor based creams well what if you don’t want to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on a growth factor cream well then look for ones that contain peptides we have one called the ultra night lift therapy and this is a nice peptide base cream that is really good with reversing aging it’s very easy to tolerate that’s a great thing about peptide based creams is that they are very easy for the skin to tolerate okay they may not have quite the scientific basis as the retinol but they do work they do help to reverse your aging and they should not create this skin irritation okay so super important I would recommend retinol there’s number one growth factor as number two but big price tag and number three would be peptides if the other two are not options for you and don’t forget your eye cream okay the eye cream is super important I recommend ideally like retinol for the rest of your face a retinol based eye cream the reason why you want to go with a retinol eye cream verse isn’t just straightforward retinol or god forbid Trent no and on your skin is that that could be a bit too strong the skin of the eyelids is some of the thinnest skin of the body and if you apply an aggressive retinol or a try knowing then your skin can really react to it okay so apply a good eye cream at night because before you know it your eyelids as we get holter if they get thinner and a bit creepy and you want to try to prevent that and then the final step step five is to apply a moisturizer as needed okay now moisturizers are not something that you have to apply to your skin some people especially got oily skin then stop it step four and you don’t necessarily an extra moisturizer but if it’s let’s say in the winter time if you’re in a really dry climate if your skin is really dry if you’ve got real mature thinning skin then you may find that adding a moisturizer on top of this can be really helpful more for how it feels and how your skin feels versus true anti-aging okay and there are a lot of moisturizers out there ideally pick one that you find is comfortable on your skin and doesn’t clog your pores so I mentioned earlier that I created the perfect morning skincare routine if you haven’t seen it check out the video there’s a link coming right up
