exfoliator

English

Etymology

exfoliate +‎ -or

Noun

exfoliator (plural exfoliators)

1. An exfoliant.
   • 2007 August 26, S. S. Fair, “Terms of Enhancement”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     alpha hydroxy acids are great exfoliators.

Further reading

• “exfoliator”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “exfoliator”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “exfoliator”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Latin

Verb

exfoliātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of exfoliō