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Our Face Scrub
Exfoliation is an essential beauty step, a real boost for your skin. It removes dead skin cells, impurities, unclogs pores, enhances your complexion, and brings a radiant glow to your skin. Let us share all the benefits of exfoliation with you.
What are the benefits of face exfoliation?
Wondering why face exfoliation is an essential skincare step? Here are four great reasons to add it to your routine.
Exfoliation of dead skin cells
Your skin naturally renews itself approximately every 28 days. However, over time, this process slows down, and dead skin cells begin to accumulate on the surface. This can cause your complexion to appear dull and make your skincare less effective. Exfoliation helps to gently eliminate these cells. It also removes impurities that daily aggressors, such as dust and pollution, leave on your skin.
Brighter complexion
Dead skin cells and impurities are the enemies of a glowing complexion. With face exfoliation, your skin regains its natural radiance, and your complexion appears brighter and more even.
Refinement of skin texture
Impurities and dead cells form subtle irregularities on your skin's surface. Exfoliating with a scrub improves the texture of your skin, reducing the appearance of pores and leaving your skin feeling smoother and much softer.
Reduction of imperfections
When excess oil or impurities accumulate in pores, blackheads can form. To help prevent breakouts, exfoliating with a face scrub is an excellent way to refine your skin and clear out clogged pores.
Chemical vs Mechanical Exfoliation?
There are two methods of exfoliating the skin. Mechanical scrubs contain exfoliating particles such as fruit stone powder, sugar, or salt. As you massage the product onto your skin, the particles gently remove dead skin cells through friction.
Chemical exfoliants, on the other hand, do not contain grains but include exfoliating actives such as AHA (glycolic, lactic acids), BHA (salicylic acid), or enzymes. These exfoliants don’t require massaging, as they are meant to sit on the skin and dissolve the bonds between dead cells and the skin.
How often should you exfoliate your face?
Exfoliating your face once or twice a week is enough to refine your skin texture and achieve a more even complexion. Over-exfoliating can cause imbalance.
For oily skin, frequent exfoliation can lead to an overproduction of sebum, resulting in excess shine and an increase in blemishes. For normal or dry skin, too frequent exfoliation may cause tightness or discomfort, and even redness or irritation. If you have sensitive, dry, or very dry skin, weekly exfoliation is typically sufficient.
Whatever your skin type, always apply a nourishing or hydrating treatment after exfoliation to restore the skin’s protective moisture barrier. For oily or blemish-prone skin, a purifying mask would work well after exfoliation. The hydration phase comes next.
How to choose the right scrub for your skin type?
To suit all skin types, mechanical face scrubs come with grains of various sizes. For normal to combination skin, choose creamy textures containing fine grains. These textures are also suitable for dry skin, with softer, gentler grains. For oily or blemish-prone skin, a gel formula with larger grains is ideal. This helps to unclog pores, limit sebum build-up, and remove dead cells.
How to apply a face scrub?
Use your face scrub on clean, damp skin. Massage gently in circular motions, focusing on the T-zone, especially if your skin is oily, combination, or prone to blemishes. Rinse with lukewarm water, then apply your usual skincare or a mask suited to your skin type.
Discover our NUXE Face Scrub
With the NUXE Radiance Face Scrub, we meet the needs of all skin types, even the most sensitive. Its creamy formula features rose extract, which is hydrating and soothing. Upcycled apricot stone powder* provides a gentle exfoliation, leaving your skin fresh, glowing, and radiant without any feeling of tightness. Skin texture is refined, and your skin is left soft and ready for the next steps in your skincare routine.
Freed from dead skin cells and impurities, your skin is smoother, and your complexion shines. Add the NUXE Face Scrub to your beauty routine to unlock your skin’s full potential.
*Upcycling apricot stones whose pulp is intended for the food industry.
