Exfoliators can help renew and refresh your complexion by removing the dead cells from the surface of your skin. They serve many purposes, from preventing blemishes to making your skin feel soft and look radiant. You can find chemical exfoliators, natural exfoliators, and even equipment for home use that is similar to salon equipment or dermatologist's equipment. For all-over exfoliation, you can use a body scrub with microbeads, oatmeal, or other slightly rough particles. You can even use a special pumice stone or hard-bristled body brush and scrub gently to renew skin cells. On areas like your stomach, back, thighs, elbows, feet, and knees, it's fine to use a product with a little roughness--but you'd never want to use the same product on your face. Most top brands of cosmetics offer an exfoliating facial scrub that will be suitable for daily use if you have oily skin and every other day or every three days if you have dry skin. While you need to be gentle with dry skin, it's doubly important to exfoliate because lingering dead skin cells can give you whiteheads and blemishes when dirt and bacteria get trapped in closed pores. Luxury facials at high-end salons often include microdermabrasion, which is a technique used to remove the top layers of skin with chemicals or abraders like diamond dust. This goes beyond exfoliating just the outermost dead skin, and actually takes off a bit more, with the intention of reducing the appearance of wrinkles. You can now get at-home microdermabrasion kits from many department store and drugstore names in the beauty industry.
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