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exfoliate

[eks-foh-lee-eyt] / ɛksˈfoʊ liˌeɪt /


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Treatments will clean, exfoliate and moisturize the scalp, and they will include a gentle head massage.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

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

“The body treatment is especially nice because you’re able to exfoliate away a lot of the summer grime and get your skin ready for the fall season,” Holm explains.

From Seattle Times Sep. 29, 2021

“It has antioxidants, green-tea extract, and a peptide-B3 complex, which helps hydrate and exfoliate skin,” says Gonzalez.

From Slate Dec. 24, 2018

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

Writer-director Sofia Coppola exfoliates the lust for celebrity lifestyles that often powers theft, even at its most haphazard and uncoordinated.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2024

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

The pumpkin enzyme in this treatment exfoliates, while alpha hydroxy acid peels, and aluminum oxide polishes, tackling a dull complexion.

From Forbes Oct. 28, 2014

Characteristics of the Tree: Height, 80'-100'; diameter 2'-4'; trunk often forked; bark, light gray, shallow fissures, rather smooth, rarely exfoliates; leaves, 8"-12" long, compound 7 leaflets, sharply serrate; fruit, a thick-shelled nut, bitter kernel.

From Wood and Forest by William Noyes

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

Herzog’s dialogue, pruning the social floweriness and conversational whorls of Ibsen’s naturalism, gets right to the point of every line, leaving the text raw and red, as if exfoliated.

From New York Times Mar. 9, 2023

In Miller's aerial photo the mountain looked particularly sinister: a huge fin of exfoliated stone, dark and smeared with ice.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

It also noted in its ruling that testers were asked to use an exfoliating product and a hydrogel, neither of which are sold with the mask.

From BBC Jun. 9, 2026

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

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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