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exfoliate

[eks-foh-lee-ayt] / 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

Products containing salicylic acid also help exfoliate the skin, which promotes turnover of dead skin cells and keeps pores from getting clogged.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

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

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

From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2018

The name is from the Latin vermiculor, “to breed worms,” because when heated before the blowpipe these minerals exfoliate into long worm-like threads.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

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

She moisturizes her feet with her homemade lotion and exfoliates once a week with Dr. Bronner’s soap and a foot file.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2016

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

In their experiments, they started with a small block of graphite, from which they carefully exfoliated individual flakes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023

Not really knowing how well your feet will be exfoliated is up for question.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

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

She starts by using an exfoliating mitt to apply an oil-based Nerra cleanser and follows with Prequel’s Gleanser, a hydrating, glycerin-based wash that she also uses on her face.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

It comes after the British Association for Dermatologists warned potentially harmful active ingredients found in some of these products made for adults, such as exfoliating acids, can provoke allergies or eczema in younger skin.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 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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