Skin abrasives and exfoliation; a new natural approach

Humans have invented all kinds of techniques to exfoliate their skin, while forgetting the original method; using their nails.

There is a much better way to remove dead skin cells.

To exfoliate your skin; try superficial grooming

Humans are naturally equipped with the best tools.

Superficial grooming techniques are the only completely natural method of exfoliating your skin.
Instead of using scrubs, chemical exfoliants, masks, peels, ... try using your super-sensitive nails.

Superficial grooming only affects the surface of the epidermis, where the cells are dead.

You want exfoliation? Try your nails

While grooming, you can continuously monitor the skin's tension and apply pressure only where it has thickened or folded.
Use superficial grooming techniques in areas where your skin is thin, and switch to pressure grooming strokes where it is thicker.

Removing dead epidermis cells with your nails

When grooming under certain lighting conditions, you can actually see the dead skin cells falling to the floor.

You remove so many dead cells when you run your nails over your skin, that the space under your fingertips quickly fills up.
At some point, their presence will hinder your grooming work.
Keep your fingers and nails clean.

Only your nails will do

Only your nails have enough sensitivity and delicacy to differentiate areas where your skin is thin and fragile, and where it really needs exfoliation.
Abrasives, masks and chemicals can't make the distinction between folded and unfolded skin, or between thick and thin skin.
In some places, exfoliation may be unnecessary.
Areas where your skin is healthy can easily be irritated by harsh methods and strong products.
Scraping the skin, elsewhere than where it has thickened, can bring blood rushing to the surface, and damage the skin.

Using abrasives may hurt your skin.
Only your nails can do the job properly.

Why is exfoliation needed?

Your skin's epidermis produces fresh skin cells every day.
They are pushed upward by the arrival of newer cells, and they slowly dry up on their 30 day journey to the top of the skin.
When they reach the surface of the skin, they are dead and supposed to flake off on their own, in a process called desquamation.

Desquamation is a natural monthly epidermis renewal system.
It's amazing, but it doesn't work perfectly.

Unfortunately, the procedure often doesn't reach its completion in some areas of the body; so dead cells cling on and pile up, thickening your skin.
Dead cells look dull, lackluster and unresponsive.
They make you look unattractive.

The origins of skin exfoliation

Encyclopedias tell us that the Egyptians invented this practice, three to four thousand years ago.
Since then, three methods have mainly been used to exfoliate the skin:

Mechanical exfoliation

• Rasps
• Stones
• Brushes
• Gloves
• Abrasive soaps
• Micro-dermabrasion
• Dermabrasion
• Lasers

Masks

• Clay
• Chemical masks
• Oatmeal
• Yogurt
• Lemon
• Cucumbers

Chemical exfoliation

• Exfoliating cleansers
• Wine and grapes
• Chemical gels
• Creams and lotions
• Peelings

You can't see how thick your skin is

From above, your skin may look perfectly uniform and flat.
However, its actual thickness varies tremendously.

What you see

Actual skin thickness

Your eyes cannot distinguish areas where the skin is thicker, but your sense of touch will easily reveal them.

Regardless of its thickness, skin looks the same.
However, the thicker it gets, the more exfoliation is necessary.

The return of an ancestral behavior

If modern exfoliation techniques are 3 to 4 thousand years old, grooming can be traced back to the first humans, 7 million years ago, and to the first primates, about 60 million years back.
Yes, we stopped grooming ourselves at one point in our history, but we're back at work now.

It's clear that you'll get much better results, and for free, by grooming your skin every day, rather than using contraptions and magical potions invented by people who don't even understand that the skin is folded.