Talk:Exfoliation (cosmetology)

Unverified claims/junk science
Claims are repeatedly made about exfoliation that are completely unsubstantiated. Assuming they do remove dead skin cells, the "benefits" of doing this are not proven. The portion of the article which I left aren't substantiated either, but I'm willing to believe "chemical exfoliants" and "mechanical exfoliants" operate as described. Mbac (talk) 19:54, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Six years later many unsubstantiated claims have returned. This time let's try sticking citation needed next to them. Mbac (talk) 15:41, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Origin of term
..something less interesting to consider explaining. Does it come from the biological term, "exfoliation: when trees get rid of leaves", because you're ridding yourself of dead skin 'leaves' or sheets? Who coined the term? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nnnudibranch (talk • contribs) 02:38, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * An attempt has been made. There doesn't seem to be a lot of information readily available concerning its history though.  Thegreatdr (talk) 21:36, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I looked on dictionary.com, and it says "[Origin: 1670–80; NL exfoliātiōn- (s. of exfoliātiō). See exfoliate]", so I did go and see "exfoliate" and the first definition shown was

1.	to throw off in scales, splinters, etc.

2.	to remove the surface of (a bone, the skin, etc.) in scales or laminae.

I don't know the reliability of the website, I thought I'd throw it out there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nnnudibranch (talk • contribs) 04:36, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

GA review
Hi there, while what is here is of reasonable quality, this article is still much too short to cover the subject adequately. See the article on soap for the kind of thing you are looking to emulate. Another important point is that the quality of the sources is not very good (please read WP:V), About.com isn't a very reliable source, Article Land seems to be a blog site and is not an acceptable source, neither is www.newapeel.com. I'd recommend using Google Scholar or PubMed to find peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals. Nice work on what is here though, this is a good introduction to the subject. Tim Vickers (talk) 21:21, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I normally contribute to the tropical cyclone topics...so I am much less familiar of what is an acceptable reference for a medical-related article.  I'll look at soap for length requirements and see if I can find better references.  This type of topic is so general and "fad"-ish right now, that looking through the first 50-100 sites concerning the topic only yielded a few "doctors."  Thegreatdr (talk) 22:12, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

See http://scholar.google.com/ and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez the two search engines I mentioned, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ is usually open-access Tim Vickers (talk) 02:18, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Also, "ancient" and "hundreds of years" aren't specific at all. Hackwrench (talk) 16:23, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

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Proposed merge with Dermaplaning
No need for separate stub article. RA 0808 talkcontribs 15:27, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Justified proposal. D. is just another marketing term. Merge done. -- Kku (talk) 10:37, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

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