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exfoliate

[eks-foh-lee-eyt] / ɛksˈfoʊ liˌeɪt /


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Dee also combines the treatments with high-grade medical skin care to exfoliate dead skin cells and use serums to stimulate collagen and elastin.

From Seattle Times Jan. 24, 2023

Add a small bit of water to the mineral-packed blend of volcanic green clay, Dead Sea salt, kelp and spirulina to exfoliate, soothe and hydrate the skin.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2022

These are like facial masks for your feet, and many make lofty promises to remove calluses, exfoliate your skin and make your feet feel smoother and softer.

From Washington Post Jan. 19, 2022

Don’t wash your face, don’t exfoliate, don’t put a tea-tree serum on it.

From Slate Jan. 30, 2019

These boulders owe their spheroidal form chiefly to 221 weathering, or action of frost, which causes the surface to exfoliate in concentric plates, so that all the more prominent angles are removed.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

“If you don’t like ‘Crazy,’ there’s something wrong with you,” Lenae says as a pedicurist exfoliates her feet in a West Hollywood hotel room.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 19, 2025

The spa’s most popular body treatment is the Honey Glow Body Wrap, which exfoliates your entire body in a warm wrap of honey.

From Seattle Times Sep. 29, 2021

But overuse of a brush that exfoliates can cause skin to become inflamed and red.

From Slate Apr. 25, 2019

It’s a powdery mix of pink clay, honey — a humectant — and coconut that hydrates while it exfoliates.

From New York Times Mar. 5, 2019

The slime resembles a layer of albumen, spread with a brush; it exfoliates in drying, and finally becomes visible by the manner in which it colors green or deep brown.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

After addressing structural problems such as loss of adhesion and exfoliated paint, the restorers then used reversible techniques -- including watercolour paint -- to "stitch" everything back together, she said.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

For 45 minutes, a “Q-facial” machine sprayed, vacuumed, exfoliated and hydrated my face, delivering ultrasonic waves at two different depths.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

For several years, the researchers have had titanium gold carbide without knowing how the gold can be exfoliated or panned out, so to speak.

From Science Daily Apr. 16, 2024

Once my feet were soaked and clipped, she exfoliated the tops of my feet.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2022

“Yeah. I have five humongous bug bites on my legs and arms, my butt crack has been thoroughly exfoliated with sand, I’m hungry, exhausted, and I haven’t seen a ship anywhere.”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

They swirled hand-muddled blueberries and raw honey into organic, sugar-free yogurt for his facial; they stirred exfoliating Japanese volcanic sand into mineral-rich Korean mud for his hydrating mask.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2025

When the trees shed their puzzle-piece bark, it’s like they’re exfoliating: They deposit pollutants into the soil, preventing them from entering local waterways or our lungs, while jettisoning damaged bark.

From Slate Mar. 16, 2024

The researchers fabricated two samples of the hybrid graphene structure by first exfoliating graphene layers from a block of graphite, then using optical tools to identify five-layered flakes in the steplike configuration.

From Science Daily Feb. 21, 2024

But many of these contain potentially harmful active ingredients intended for adults only, such as exfoliating acids.

From BBC Jan. 26, 2024

Ifemelu had finished and Aunty Uju was coating an exfoliating mask on her face when The General called to say he could no longer come.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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