If you have an oily or scaly skin, you have surely been looking for solutions for a long time. In addition to a facial routine suited to the needs of your face, exfoliation should be a must for you. Exfoliating the skin should be part of your routine. That is precisely what we are going to help you do today. In this article, you will discover exactly what exfoliation is.
What is exfoliate?
Exfoliation is a process that we carry out on our skin to facilitate or promote cell renewal. What is done is to remove dead skin naturally. This is the technical concept.
The essence of exfoliation is the rubbing or scratching of the skin and it can be done chemically, mechanically or in a mixed way. The usual one is the natural facial scrub, and the one we are focusing on today is the mechanical one.
Mechanical exfoliation is what we achieve with the use of our hands or with machines. Chemistry would be achieved through the reaction of certain elements. The mixed, as is logical, is a combination of both, the application of ingredients that will have a chemical reaction aided by a mechanical process.
In any case, the summary is that to exfoliate the skin is to remove everything that is left over and dirty, that is, to clean it thoroughly. With this, in addition to the obvious, you get it to be soft again and make it look brighter.
To do so, it is usual to use a product in cream or gel format that includes small grains or harder particles that will be responsible for “scratching” the dermis. If nothing else is indicated, its application is as simple as cleaning your face with a toner, keeping it moist and applying the scrub with a massage applying a little pressure so that the hard particles do their work by scratching away the fat, dirt and skins.
Why exfoliate the skin?
If your skin is normal, you may be wondering if it is necessary to do this if, in theory, naturally, it already happens. However, if your skin is a combination, very oily, very dry and scaly or has pimples, surely you can perfectly understand why you have to exfoliate.
And it is that, as we have said before, by doing it on our own, in addition to cell and epithelial renewal, we are helping to purify our face. What does this mean? That we free our pores, both the dilated ones and those with stitches and those that are not to help them breathe, we unclog them.
With this, we achieve oxygenation of the dermis layer by layer, that the fat comes out as it should, that the products penetrate correctly, and that toxins do not accumulate (in the case of severe acne, imagine the number of bacteria that you have in the face, because this pathology is still an infection of areas of the skin, with its corresponding bugs).
And, well, in addition to cleaning, we also help the cell renewal process to take place, which sometimes, for one reason or another, slows down. The accumulation of dirt is one of the factors by which this occurs, because, being clogged, the skin cannot correctly carry out its functions, including natural peeling.