I love doing chemical and natural facial peels on my face. There is nothing that works better to make my skin glow with that natural sheen that healthy, renewed and rejuvenated skin tends to lend to your face like a peel. What peels do, is they literally sheer off layers and layers of skin cells that otherwise would take weeks to shed from the skin as we grow older, since with age, our skin cells tend to renew and turn over at a much slower rate.
Because of this slower turnover, it’s helpful to either produce the same effect of accelerated cell turnover with either a home microdermabrasion type of system or a chemical peel, to literally mechanically force the skin cells to renew themselves, and to reveal fresher, clearer skin. Another huge benefit of chemical peels that I notice is a much improved smoothness.
One thing that I have noticed throughout the years is that my earlier battles with acne left my skin rough looking in certain areas, especially on my chin, where acne lesions were their worst. Since I used to have such bad acne, over the years, my skin’s texture in these areas is noticeably rougher, and when I am regularly doing these chemical peels at home, and my home microdermabrasion kits, I notice that these areas smooth out noticeably.
You see, one of the things that causes skin to look rough in certain areas is a build up of old skin cells that need to be sloughed off by force. This is why younger skin looks much smoother. When you are younger, your skin cells are basically programmed to turn over at a much faster pace, making for more youthful looking skin underneath, and part of the reason we notice our skin is not as smooth or supple when we grow older is because smooth skin is obscured by old, dead skin cells that not only hamper the texture of our skin, but also tend to make the skin look less “alive” and less colored, thereby making us look older than we are.
Chemical peels can also help to reduce the appearance of your pores, so that your pores appear much smaller. This is key to great skin, since large pores tend to make our skin appear less smoothed out. They also reduce the appearance of the fine lines and wrinkles that come with aging, which is a huge benefit .The only drawback to doing peels is that your skin really looks terrible after you do them, I’d say for about a day or two, it looks ruddy and more irritated, but if you’re patient and you perform these on your skin over six weeks, every week, once a week, with breaks in between these cycles, you will enjoy smoother, more wrinkle free skin for years to come.