Exfoliate means removing dead skins from your body. When you are young your entire skin cells replaced every 20 days. This changes as you age and by the time you in your early thirties the skin replenishment go to 30-40 days and Beyond.
Roughly 30,000-50,000 skin cells are replaced every minute. The dead skin may accumulate on the body and pores causing dull looking skin.You will get clear glowing skin, if you develop a habit to exfoliate Regularly.
Exfoliation can be done throughout the year, but the best time to exfoliate is winter when your skin becomes dry and dead faster due to low humidity and cold weather. This dead skin needs to be removed for your skin to look good and feel good.
Most people just exfoliate their face and feet. You should exfoliate the entire body. You can use a loofah or exfoliating gloves. Different parts of the body require different type of exfoliation pressure. You need to be more careful while exfoliating your face and other softer skins.
If you have keratosis pilaris, then you should use alpha or beta hydroxy acids otherwise your skin will get irritated.
How Often Should You Exfoliate Your Face?
Though the face is most visible part of your body and its looks make you attractive or unattractive, we focus more on the facial skin than any other part of the body. Exfoliation makes our skin looking fresh and growing. The most natural question that comes to you mind is how frequent should you exfoliate your face and body?
Since you are clearing your pores of the dead skin by exfoliating to look good, your mind may be tempted to do it more often. But, remember that exfoliation is also making your skin dry and red. This kind of too much of irritation can harm your skin rather than benefiting it. So make sure that you do not overdo the exfoliation.
Generally 2 times a week is considered reasonable for your face to handle exfoliation.
Most Effective Way to Exfoliate The Skin
It is not just about how often should you exfoliate, but is is also about how you exfoliate. Doing it right will produce far better results then doing it sub-optimally. You should also be aware that certain circumstances are not good for exfoliating the skin so do not do it under those circumstances. These precautions will help you to maintain good skin for many years.
Do not exfoliate
- When you have sunburn
- When you have open cut and wounds.
Exfoliating under those circumstances will irritate the skin. Instead wait until the above issues are resolved.
Always use proper exfoliating cleansers and other tools such as loofah and exfoliating gloves for getting the best results. Natural products will provide better skin protection than the harsh chemicals. So be watchful on the contents of your exfoliating cleansers.
Following is the step by step method to exfoliate your skin.
- Brush your dry skin with loofah body brush or exfoliating gloves.
- Get yourself fully wet under the shower from head to toe
- Apply your chosen exfoliating cleanser in circular motion. If you want you can use loofah or exfoliating gloves for the application.
- Scrub you skin of different part of body with different pressures. Bikini area should be scrubbed very lightly.
- Be careful and gentle on your face, around your eyes and mouth.
- Rinse your body with warm water. Then was it again with cold water.
- Dab your body dry with towel and apply moisturizing cream.
Exfoliation dries out your skin so moisturizing is very important.