4 REASONS TO EXFOLIATE IN THE FALL

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HOW TO MASTER SEASONAL EXFOLIATION

As summer transitions into crisp autumn air it’s time to help our clients enter into this new season feeling refreshed. Seasonal changes means that our skin routine needs to be adjusted, and exfoliation is the first step to a brighter looking appearance.

Like every new season, fall is the time to let go of the old, and welcome in the new. Exfoliation helps to shed away accumulated dead skin cells, revealing a fresh and rejuvenated complexion of a more youthful skin from underneath.

The stratum corneum is the outermost layer of your skin, also known as your skin barrier, which contain dead skin cells called corneocytes.

EXFOLIATING PROMOTES A HEALTHY SKIN BARRIER

The skin barrier prevents water from leaving our skin and environmental aggressors from entering in. However, our skin barrier breaks down with time, age, dryness, and environmental damage. These cause our skin to produce less moisturizing lipids, and skin dullness, dryness, and damage increases.

Exfoliating the skin helps to reverse this process and restore our skin barrier by removing some of the outer, decaying layers of dead cells in the stratum corneum. This prompts the skin to begin making more healthy new cells from the inside out.

This leads to several important benefits as you prepare your skin for fall:

  1. Enhanced Absorption: As temperatures drop and humidity levels change our skin is more prone to dullness, dryness, and damage. Preparing the skin barrier with exfoliation helps our skin to better absorb moisturizers, and serums leaving you with a more vibrant complexion.
  2. Preventing Breakouts: transitioning into a new season can bring on an imbalance to the skin’s natural oil production which can lead to breakouts. Regular exfoliation minimizes the risk of clogged pores, and breakouts by clearing away debris and impurities.
  3. Diminished Appearance of Hyperpigmentation: Sun exposure from our summers can lead to hyperpigmentation. Exfoliation will gently encourage the shedding of damaged skin cells and improve your skin cells turnover. This will gradually reduce the appearance of uneven skin tome and dark spots.
  4. Revitalization: When you increase cell turnover this will literally make the skin look younger, and appears more youthful as a result. Your skin will retain moisture more effectively, has greater elasticity and firmness, looks brighter and is more resilient against environmental aggressors.

HERE ARE 3 QUICK TIPS FOR EXFOLIATION

  1. Choose the right exfoliation treatment to meet the needs of your skin.
  2. Cell turnover increases in time, and depends on what types of exfoliation treatment you, and your professional choose.
  3. Follow up with a hydrating serum and moisturizer to replenish the skin’s moisture barrier.

If you aren’t sure what exfoliation treatment, and follow up care will best suite your needs please feel free to contact Alisa Florio at 419-680-1486.