6 Best Treatments & Products For Skin Rejuvenation
For most of us, glowy, youthful-looking skin doesn’t just happen. Instead, it's the result of getting the right treatments done and using the correct products to help support and improve the look and feel of our skin. Advances in skincare and treatments have allowed for the creation of much more effective options than ever, to try to improve tone, texture and overall radiance. We’ll take a closer look at some of the best, most effective treatments for skin rejuvenation, helping you to make an informed decision to help you get healthier, more radiant skin.
Microneedling
Sounds scary at first, but when done by a professional, the results are truly worth it. Microneedling utilizes tiny needles to create controlled micro-punctures in the skin to encourage the stimulation of collagen and elastin produced when the body’s natural healing processes are triggered. The skin repairs itself, creating healthy tissue which helps to smooth over and firm up the skin, making you feel and look more youthful after multiple treatments.
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You should avoid any at-home kits you come across, as this type of procedure (making little cuts to the skin) should only be carried out at a trusted Med Spa by a qualified technician.
Chemical Peels
Chemical peels are used with the aim of treating a number of concerns like fine lines, dullness, hyperpigmentation, and so much more. It involves an acid solution being applied to the skin, which causes controlled exfoliation to the top damaged layers of skin to uncover healthier, smoother looking skin underneath (hence the name peel). There are all kinds of different types of peels depending on what you want to treat, and they vary from a more gentle exfoliation to a deeper peel, and all can use a variety of different ingredients to get the desired results.
While typically pretty safe, with more gentler peels being able to be done at home, deeper peels can carry some risk and are much safer if done in a more medical setting.
Injectables & Fillers
Sometimes just treating the outer layer of our skin might not feel like it has enough of an impact. There are now ways of restoring volume you might have lost or removing lines and wrinkles due to age. Both fillers and injectables are types of cosmetic injections, but they work in different ways to get results. Fillers specifically add volume to areas, like plump lips, whilst injectables like Botox work to relax muscles to reduce the look of wrinkles formed over time by facial movements. Both work to reduce the signs of aging to give a smoother, more youthful look with very minimal downtime.
Laser & Light Therapy
If you’re more concerned with the overall appearance of your skin and want to reduce texture and discoloration, then light and laser therapy might work well. There are different kinds of light therapy, like IPL, which work to address concerns like redness and pigmentation whilst also working great at removing unwanted hair. There are also a bunch of different lasers that treat a variety of concerns. CO2 lasers, for example, work at deep resurfacing and are particularly good for treating wrinkles and scars, whilst pulsed dye laser (also known as PDL) is great for those with redness or wanting to treat broken capillaries. They’re all minimally invasive but can be a little painful and redness immediately after is to be expected.
HydraFacial
More than just your standard facial, a hydrafacial is a 6-step routine that works to improve the overall look and feel of your skin. Its key steps involve cleaning and exfoliating, a gentle acid peel, extracting any impurities from your pores, hydrating the skin, treating any specific concerns and then may choose to use LED light therapy or not, depending on the person. The result is immediately glowy, clean-looking and feeling skin. It's a pretty gentle option compared to those above, but that doesn’t mean it's less effective, depending on what kind of results you’re looking for - and above all, it's just super relaxing.
LED Treatments
LED light therapy is still a little bit of an unknown. It's a super gentle, non-invasive way of treating discoloration and skin dullness. It uses different wavelengths of light to penetrate the skin to trigger cellular changes which should help to improve the look of skin over time. The different wavelengths help treat different concerns, like blue light helps reduce acne-causing bacteria while red light helps stimulate collagen to reduce fine lines. You can have it done professionally but now you can even experience the treatment at home thanks to LED masks.
With the right combination of treatments and therapies, rejuvenated feeling skin is easier to achieve than ever. Choosing options that are better suited to your skin can help deliver results that will have a bigger and longer impact, maximizing your skin's outcome.