Exfoliation Explained: How to Clear Away Dull Skin and Bring Back Your Glow

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So we also have a huge range of exfoliators and what is an exfoliator? So exfoliating is really important for your skin because it's getting rid of the dead skin cells and we don't want this layer of dead skin over the top of our skin, we want to get that beautiful glow. So when I see patients and their skin is looking really dull, I can usually tell because we've got this layer of dead skin and we need to remove that so that we can see the fresh young skin underneath which will give you a gorgeous glow but also it's going to show the health of the skin, the color of the skin and the products that you're going to be using are going to penetrate through the skin much better and you're going to get a much more efficient penetration of the products when the dead skin layer is removed.

But there's different ways of exfoliating. So for example, you've got the vitamin C micro abrasion face mask. Now this has tiny beads in it which is a little bit more aggressive so I would use this maybe once a month.

For men who have much thicker skin, they might use it once every two weeks or even once a week. They usually love it a lot more than women. And it has a full vitamin C serum but it's got the micro beads that just physically takes off the dead skin layer.

We've also got the exfoliating day lotion and this is probably one of the best sellers in the clinics and what a lot of my patients use and really feel has transformed their skin because it's a glycolic acid-based cream that stays on the skin and chemically exfoliates the dead skin layer off. So you put the cream on your skin, you leave it on for the whole day, you apply your makeup, your SPF and then throughout the day the dead skin layer is taken off.