Angela CagliaFounder & Celebrity Esthetician

Is Your Skin Over-Exfoliated? Find Out!

Name: Is Your Skin Over-Exfoliated? Find Out!
Uploaded: 2024-02-04T15:20:21+00:00
Duration: 1 min 13 s
Channel: Angela Caglia
Description: Angela Caglia (esthetician) warns against over-exfoliating facial skin. She says exfoliating more than two times per week likely constitutes…

4 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Angela Caglia (esthetician) warns against over-exfoliating facial skin. She says exfoliating more than two times per week likely constitutes over-exfoliation and lists signs (dryness, tightness, localized redness, rough texture). She recommends exfoliating one to two times per week in the evening only, to preserve the lipid barrier, essential fatty acids, sebum (which declines with age), and the skin microbiome.

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Exfoliating more than two times per week is likely over-exfoliation.

Exfoliate one to two times per week, in the evening.

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Okay, here's some skincare advice. Having been an esthetician for 30 years, I want to tell you to stop over exfoliating. If you are exfoliating your skin on your face more than two times a week, it is most likely you are over exfoliating your skin. If it's feeling dry, tight, a little red in this area, rougher, it's because that peel pad or that toner with all the acids in it is really stripping your barrier and sensitizing it it making your other skincare work twice as hard. I recommend to exfoliate one to two times a week in the evening, and that's it. No more than that. Whether it's a peel pad, whether it's one of the toners or a certain peel you have at home, you want to make sure that your lipid barrier is healthy and all of your essential fatty acids are there and they're helping you look plump and dewy. Because we already lose our sebum production as we age, so. So we don't want to strip it down more. And there's also healthy bacteria that our microbiome needs on our skin. So just remember, if you want to look younger and feel more beautiful, don't exfoliate more than one to two times a week.