Exfoliating your skin is one of the best ways to give it a bright, vibrant and youthful appearance.
Whether it’s at home or through professional treatments offered by medical spa experts, properly exfoliating is bound to boost your skin care regimen’s effectiveness.
Skin exfoliation explained
Dirt, dead skin cells and other impurities collect on the surface of your skin, building up over time. These impurities can clog your pores and cause increasingly noticeable imperfections.
There is a wide range of products and at-home exfoliation methods that can help remove these impurities and reveal the underlying healthy skin.
Here are six benefits that proper exfoliation provides.
1. Combat blemishes
Over time you may experience dry skin, warts, acne and other types of blemishes.
Exfoliating peels help bring many common skin problems under control. Mild peeling procedures are especially useful for addressing photo aging, acne scars and melasma.
2. Improve skin texture
When dead skin cells and other issues impact your skin, containing the problem is easy — just start and maintain an effective exfoliation routine. This will purify and detox your skin while enhancing its texture and tone.
3. Enhance your skin’s hydration
If you use a daily moisturizer but don’t get the results you had in mind, exfoliation could be part of the solution.
Since skin exfoliation removes dead skin cells and other blockages, the moisturizers you use will absorb into your skin and give you a refreshed and vitalized appearance.
Ensure that you use products that work together — you may have to try different combinations until you find one that’s right for you.
Ask The Breslow Center’s medical aestheticians to help you choose skin care products that are suited to your individual needs.
We carry a wide range of professional treatment lines, such as Dr. Zein Obagi’s world-renowned Zo Skin Health collection, which offers a complete therapeutic skin care system for at-home use.
4. Decrease pore size
Impurities that get on your skin and into your pores can push them open, increasing their size. You can remove the impurities from your pores with a good exfoliator, and the outcome might surprise you.
If you use an effective product and follow the correct steps at each stage, your pores will return to their normal size, and your skin will look much better.
5. Improve your tan
If your tan does not last as long as you want, dead skin cells could be to blame.
Dead and damaged skin cells soak up the sun’s rays and shed sooner than healthy skin, causing your tan to fade. Avoid the problem by exfoliating your skin before you tan.
6. Combat the aging process
As you age, your skin’s ability to renew itself decreases — it takes longer to heal, because dead skin cells take longer to shed. Exfoliating your skin speeds the renewal process and keeps your skin looking great.
The right exfoliation routine can even promote the production of collagen, a vital protein that holds your skin together and keeps it firm.
Related: Five Superfoods That Fight Aging
How you can exfoliate your skin
Turning to at-home solutions is a good start when you want to exfoliate your skin.
Use a bristled brush and a skin cleanser. If you want to use soap that you have never tried, put a small dot on your wrist for a few minutes to ensure it won’t trigger a negative skin reaction.
Then, get in the shower with warm water and put the exfoliating soap on your face and body, using the bristled brush to scrub it off gently.
Benefits of a medical spa
Although at-home solutions can help you refresh and energize your skin, going to a medical spa will give you the best results possible.
Medical spas let you take advantage of technology to which you would otherwise not have access, while a trained staff learns about your goals and skin type to find the best approach for you. You will notice the difference in your skin after the first visit.
If you are serious about caring for your skin and maintaining your youthful glow, use at-home solutions between scheduled spa visits for skin that you can be proud of.
Get a complimentary skin analysis today! Contact our New Jersey medical spa for more information.
