How do gel exfoliators work?

Regular exfoliating is the key to achieving glowing skin. While your body and face naturally sheds skin, the dead skin cells sometimes cling onto your skin and clog your pores, causing your skin to not be able to absorb skincare products properly, or acne breakouts. It’s also important to know what kind of exfoliators are better for your overall skin health. While you may think that physical scrubs are more effective, they can actually damage your skin barrier with excessive scratching, and cause extra oil production that counteracts your goal of preventing acne! 

Gel exfoliators tend to be more gentle yet highly effective, as well as suitable for dry, sensitive, or acne-prone skin. Without any microbeads or other physical scrubs present, gel exfoliators rely on either cellulose or carbomer which interact with the oil and dead skin and create clumps, effectively removing them from your skin surface. Enzymes also play a part in breaking the protein bond between dead skin cells and the epidermis (the uppermost layer of your skin), effectively sweeping away the pore-clogging villains and revealing healthy, glowy skin.