Hydrate your skin after Exfoliating

Hello 👋🏾beautiful people, We know the benefits of exfoliating the skin it improves the skin tone as a result of new skin underneath being revealed but and that's a big BUT exfoliation works so well because it strips away part of the stratum corneum, your skin’s topmost layer. Too much of that is never good. 🌻The stratum corneum is basically dead skin cells, but it still serves an extremely vital function: preventing water from escaping from the skin. Without the barrier of the stratum corneum,water from our skin would evaporate within a matter of hours leaving the  skin dry and vulnerable. 🌼The problem with exfoliation is that much of the skin’s antioxidants and vitamins, particularly vitamins C and E, are  in the stratum corneum. Stripping them away means your skin is essentially robbed of some of its supplies. As a result, your skin will be out of balance until it can be naturally replenished. The more you peel, the less time you give your skin to rebuild its defenses. 🌲This is not to say that exfoliation is the bad guy. It's more along the lines of not over exfoliating rather exfoliating with care and making sure to restore the vitamins you have stripped of your skin. Personally I exfoliate my skin 2 to 3 times a week(I have Combination skin) depending on how my skin feels. After exfoliating I use a cucumber gel which has Sodium Hyaluronate (salt form of Hyaluronic acid),Panthenol(Pro-Vitamin B5) and cucumber extract in it to hydrate my skin. 🍂I also make sure that in the mornings I use vitamin C(which stimulates collagen). Ingredients to look out for that can help are Cica/Centella Asiatica, Hyaluronic acid/Sodium Hyaluronate,Panthenol,Bisabolol (another favourite of mine) Hope this helps😊 Let me know your opinion on this in the comments. Also I post stuff like this on my insta @ihavepores if you're interested.