A 35-year-old member asked:
I exfoliate by rubbing my skin with my hands. could this cause wrinkles in the long run?
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Dr. Jeffrey Wintanswered
Hand Surgery 37 years experience
No but: One day if you live long enough you will have wrinkles and you may think back to this and assume the wrinkles were casued by anything. Wrinkles are not mad worse by exfoliation but everyone eventually gets wrinkles
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Last updated Jun 5, 2017
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