Skin peel is a very important step of the skin care system for sensitive skin because the peel procedure allows stimulating cell renewal, increasing the natural exfoliating process, and lessening different kinds of the skin imperfections, purify its pores and amend texture, elasticity and tone.

Choosing the peel you should always take into account your skin type because sensitive skin is very reactive and easily gets irritated.

The reaction of the skin also depends greatly on its color, thickness, functioning of glands on its surface and presence of such imperfections as scars, acne and sun damage.

Peels for sensitive skin:

Sensitive skin often gets red and irritated because of daily stress, pollution, incorrect diet, hormonal fluctuations and other factors. When you exfoliate you should be very careful and choose the most gentle peel.

It’s better to start with enzyme peels or chemical peels and avoid mechanical exfoliation products which are too irritating to the sensitive skin and can scratch it. Enzyme peel products work by dissolving dead cells layer without friction and don’t irritate the skin like mechanical exfoliators. There are different types of products which contain enzymes, for example you can choose some mask, cleanser, lotion, powder etc. Fruit enzymes are protein (keratin) enzymes, digesting dead cells on the epidermis, uncovering a smooth and fresh cells layers.

Even though, some enzyme peels contain acids or mechanical granules, natural enzymes are the best to avoid allergic reactions or irritation which are common for sensitive skin type.

Chemical peels containing fruit acids also don’t scratch the skin and act by loosening and detaching the dead cells but it is more harsh procedure and sometimes acids can be too irritative. In the case of irritation after chemical peel it’s better to use the peel with lower acid concentration or stop using it.

At first your skin may be too reactive to the peel, but the reactiveness will diminish after some period of time.

Also choose the peel with natural ingredients like oatmeal scrub or scrubs that contain olive oil because this skin type is unpredictable in reaction to chemicals.

The exfoliation should be done only one time a week.

After the exfoliation procedure use moisturizing cream or lotion which calms irritated skin and a good sunscreen.