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Can exfoliant creams cause skin ageing?

Alex Hunter none at ic.ac.uk
Fri Apr 18 17:38:26 EST 1997


Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me whether skin creams which
contain exfoliating complex can actually increase skin ageing rather
than reducing it as the manufacturers claim?
  My reason for thinking this is that exfoliants remove the outer
layer of skin and thus encourage cell division to replace this layer,
and every time your cells divide errors can creep in to the DNA
sequence, which, I'm told, is beleived to be the main cause of ageing.
Thus you would expect increased ageing in the long term; while
possibly reducing the appearance of ageing in the short term?
  Or have I got it completely wrong?

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