In today’s Reader Mail:
Easy question! Can you tell me if you exfoliate, what you use, and how often? Do you think it’s a good thing to do? I should know this by now, but I don’t.
XO
F.
Easy answer! We do: Sometimes with Kiehl’s Facial Fuel, sometimes with Lush’s Ocean Salt. We like both. We do it when we remember to (maybe twice a month) but whenever we do it, we think we should do it more often. Kiehl’s says not to do it more than twice a week, and we trust them.
What’s everybody else doing, exfoliation-wise?
Kiehl’s Facial Fuel, $20.50 and Lush’s Ocean Salt, $18.55
This depends on your skin type. It makes me blotchy and bumpy.
well…. it;s on my to-do list for sure! (I’m such a lazy ass)
i exfoliate twice a week w/ the body shop’s tea tree oil facial scrub. it’s definitely helped and it’s actually pretty gentle for my sensitive skin. plus, i love how it smells (kind of medicinal, peppermint-y).
I’m a St. Ives Apricot scrub girl. It’s cheap and it gives me great skin. To be honest, though, I think I like the Target-brand knock-off of it better.
Probably should, but too lazy. But, you know, I’ve heard more than once that granulated sugar is just as good as anything. You can just mix it with a little water, or into some moisturizer.
Baking soda mixed with a gentle cleanser. Every other day, max. Otherwise you’ll dry out. But used in moderation, makes things so very smooth!
like jess, i also use the body shop’s tea tree oil facial scrub. although i just started…i like how it smells too, but i’m still looking for a knockout exfoliator.
i use body shop’s seaweed pore cleansing facial exfoliator. have used it for 2 years now and swear by anything seaweed from body shop.
Earth Science cosmetics.
Ladies, local goodies minus the snobiness from (if your are in Cali) Santa Barbara-
super smooth on your face, and you’ll be impressed with their outcomes. Ive used their stuff for a number of years (4+)Their night cream and eye cream are also phenomenal (specially if you use that heavy eye make-up)
Im pretty sure some nation wide wholefoods carry them.
http://www.earthessentials.com/face.html
I was overzealous with the exfoliating thing, and my skin got all dry and flaky.
Then to compensate for that, my skin went and overproduced oil to get rid of all that dryness. So I had to wait a couple of months or more, until my skin got back to normal.
Now I use Nivea or Neutrogena’s exfoliating scrub one a week or once every two weeks. They’re not great, but not bad either.
i like a good scrub now and then (pond’s pillows, and kiehl’s facial fuel too!), but what i LOVE is my chemical exfoliant by dermalogica. its pretty gentle yet unclogs all the junk from my pores and gets it oh-so-baby soft. i don’t use it more than once a week, but that’s mostly coz i forget.
This is kind of random, but (somewhat) related, for those of us who are environmentally-conscious.
Those little blue/purple bead “microscrubbers” found in a lot of facial scrubs are toxic to fish! They’re made of plastic and when fish or other sea creatures eat them, they die! The beads get lodged in their digestive tract.
How sad is that?