If regular exfoliation and topical creams haven’t provided you with an ideal complexion, professional skin resurfacing could be just what is needed to give you that flawless glow. Photofacials (commonly referred to as IPL or BBL treatments) can reduce brown spots, freckling, broken capillaries and redness caused by rosacea while improving redness caused by broken capillaries and other causes.

IPL therapy can also be used to shrink large pores, correct uneven pigmentation and enhance collagen for a clear and glowing complexion. It’s best suited for Fitzpatrick skin types 1-4.

What is a Photofacial?

Photofacials employ IPL technology to treat skin concerns such as sun damage, fine lines and wrinkles, large pores and uneven pigmentation. Additionally, photofacials target freckles, age spots and vascular lesions such as broken capillaries.

IPL works by emitting high-intensity light pulses that target melanin pigment and red blood cells without harming nearby tissues, giving rise to collagen stimulation and skin resurfacing that improve texture, tone, and smoothness of the skin.

IPL therapy can also reduce fine lines and wrinkles by stimulating collagen production to tighten facial structures for a more youthful look. Additionally, this non-invasive photofacial often allows patients to resume normal daily activities right after receiving treatment!

How Does a Photofacial Work?

Photofacial is a nonsurgical skin treatment that can restore and enhance your complexion by improving its color and texture, including reverseing any sun damage caused by exposure. Additionally, photofacial is effective against rosacea, large pores, and red spots.

IPL photofacial treatments use broad-spectrum light to restore skin from within, with each color of light emitted from an optimizer absorbing any dark pigment found in brown spots or broken blood vessels, creating uneven color. As it heats and destroys these damaged skin cells, they flake off, leaving behind healthier tissue beneath.

Treatment can help eliminate mild sun damage, dark freckles and melasma on the face, neck and chest. It may also be used to address enlarged pores, red spots and wrinkles; creating healthier-looking skin with an even tone and radiant radiance.

What Are the Benefits of a Photofacial?

An IPL photo facial utilizes poly-chromatic (broad spectrum) light that penetrates the skin to destroy pigmented molecules, helping reduce brown spots and redness due to sun damage while evening out skin tone and texture. Furthermore, IPL treatments also disable hair follicles to limit unwanted hair growth.

Over time, excessive sun exposure can result in fine lines, wrinkles, freckles and dark spots. Photofacial treatments help improve these signs of aging by exfoliating away dead cells, stimulating collagen production and repairing broken blood vessels.

Photofacials can also help improve rosacea by reducing inflammation from broken blood vessels. Studies show that after just three to four photofacial sessions per year, your skin cells will begin behaving like they would when younger cells existed, leading to smoother, clearer and younger looking skin!

What is the Best Time to Get a Photofacial?

Photofacial treatments can even out your skin tone and decrease hyperpigmentation, while treating rosacea and visible capillaries. Treatment can be administered on any area including face, neck, chest, hands or shoulders.

Treatment for hair restoration is quick, convenient, and painless; most patients report experiencing only mild discomfort similar to being snapped by a rubber band. A topical numbing cream may be recommended for more sensitive areas. Three to six quick sessions spaced out over several months usually give beautiful results for most people.

Winter is an excellent time for photofacial treatments as it gives your skin a chance to heal before summer sun exposure and allows time for maintenance sessions. To find out if photofacial is right for you, schedule your free consultation at Gentle Aesthetics Med Spa in Braintree, Massachusetts today.

Can I Get a Photofacial All Year Around?

How many photofacial treatments you need will depend on your skin tone and the imperfections you want to improve, but expect gradual improvements in pigmentation and redness over a series of treatments.

Light therapy works to diminish freckles, brown spots, age spots and rosacea on all skin types. Furthermore, broken capillaries contract and disappear for clearer skin.

As summer winds down and fall’s cool temperatures take hold, now is an excellent time for patients with sun damage or pigmentation to begin photofacial treatments. Through three to four treatments per year, you can achieve clearer and more even skin. Contact us for more information about this noninvasive therapy so we can answer all of your queries and get you going immediately!