Would you ever just stop washing your face? Inside the viral ‘caveman beauty' trend
The idea is that it's an elimination diet for your skin; an epidermal reset, if you will. 'For years, I picked and over-exfoliated and damaged my skin really badly … My skin is basically shedding all the damage and attempting to reregulate itself,' Zakher says in a video about the trend. Over the course of her attempt, which she says she did with guidance from her dermatologist, her skin looks as if it's pilling and then peeling off.
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