How to Exfoliate Oily Skin

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When you exfoliate, you gently abrade the skin and remove the top layer of dead cells. Exfoliating helps to hide fine wrinkles and gives your skin a rosy glow.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Clay-based Face Masks
Exfoliating Cleanser
Exfoliating Products
Facial Mud Mask
Moisturizing Facial Masks
Oil-free Moisturizers

Step1

Wet your body in the tub or shower.

Step2

Use a synthetic scrubbing sponge, exfoliating gloves or a body loofah.

Step3

Apply an exfoliating cleanser to your skin or sprinkle it onto your sponge. Some exfoliating cleansers contain as much as 25-percent ground volcanic rock; these are good for oily skin. However, cleansers that dry out oily skin too much can have a rebound effect, causing glands to overproduce oil.

Step4

Scrub the exfoliating cleanser over your skin using your sponge or loofah; make circular motions.

Step5

Be gentle over sensitive parts of the body, like delicate neck and thigh tissue.

Step6

Rinse skin thoroughly.

Step7

Be sure to follow up with a good moisturizer. Exfoliating dries out your skin.

Step8

Choose a lotion that is light in petroleum, lanolin and mineral oils. Non-comedogenic lotions - those designed specifically to prevent the formation of pimples - are best.

Tips & Warnings

Do not over-exfoliate your skin. Although exfoliating will make your skin less oily, it can also cause it to crack. Overly vigorous exfoliating can even break the tiny blood vessels under your skin.

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on 8/10/2008 Fantastic ideas. Thankyou

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workhouse said

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on 5/1/2007 i love these tips! I Just made a body scrub with oatmeal, almond (finely ground to powder), corn meal (less is more), sea salt, grapeseed oil, and organic shea butter, I added some organic unscented soap so it would lather after exfoliation was completed. The oils are gentle and are great for your skin. I have had acne in the past and sea salt yes- salt in wound- actually dries it up rather than antibacterial cleansers or acid containing products. A change in the diet from preservative central to organic also helps tremendously in the appearance of your skin and antioxidants! Free radicals are concerning.

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on 1/6/2006 Please, use care if you are a contact lens wearer, particularly rigid gas permeable varieties, with exfoliants. The tiny particles of silica, clay, rock, corncob, can lodge underneath the lens and scratch your cornea! And keep your eyes shut while rinsing, and rinse well, as the particles can run down your face into your eyes from your forehead, even if you're careful around your eyes.

This may seem self-evident, but you can't be too careful with your eyes!

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on 11/22/2005 Take a tablespoon of honey and spread it all over your face. The honey has really good moisturizing qualities that will help your face. Leave the honey on for about 5 minutes and then gently apply the oats onto your face. You might want to do this standing over a sink, the oats tend to fall. Press the oats into place and allow the oats and honey to stick together for about another 3 to 5 minutes. Then with your fingers start gently scrubbing your face in a circular motion. The oats are an amazing exfoliator because it helps to get rid of dead skin, and the honey moisturizes. After you do so your face will glow!

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