Can you exfoliate after waxing face

Considering they’ve seen some of your most intimate areas under bright lights, it’s probably okay to assume your waxing specialist has got a fair amount of your trust.

When they’re ripping a strip of cool, hardened wax from your eyebrow, upper lip, bikini, or armpit with your body hair attached to it, they’re in control. But what happens after the wax, how you treat your skin and keep the now-hairless area smooth and healthy, is in your hands.

In the process of tearing hair from the follicle, waxing also snatches at the topmost layer of the skin leaving pores to open up, says Uchenna R. Okereke, MD, a Boston-based dermatologist.

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If these pores get infected with bacteria, pimples and other bumps are more likely to make an appearance. So, it’s vital you keep the recently waxed area clean and aerated, says Gina Petak, the learning program manager at European Wax Center.

“Avoid working out right after a wax, swimming, hot tubs, and keep away from products containing pore-clogging ingredients such as mineral oil or heavy creams and lotions,”

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