As your body’s largest organ and its first line of defense against germs, ultraviolet radiation, wind, and debris and irritants, your skin is subjected to a near-constant assault. It’s no wonder that after years of exposure, it starts to show its age with lines, wrinkles, and changes in texture and tone that can make you feel older — and less confident.
The good news: Intense pulsed-pulsed light (IPL) photo facial treatments can help, stimulating a natural healing response that helps your skin look and feel smoother, clearer, and more youthful. Here, Inderjit Singh Kainth, MD, at Brunswick Internal Medicine Group explains what makes a good candidate for this state-of-the-art skin rejuvenation therapy.
IPL is one of the top five most popular minimally invasive cosmetic procedures in the United States, but it’s not ideal for everyone. To determine if you’re a good candidate for an IPL photo facial, it’s important to first understand how the technology works and what issues it can address.
IPL uses focused beams of light to penetrate the skin, similar to the way laser rejuvenation works. But unlike lasers that use very specific bands of light energy, IPL uses broadband light to address a wider variety of skin concerns at once.
During your IPL session, the intense beams of light energy painlessly penetrate your skin, reaching deeper layers where damage occurs. Pigments in your skin help the energy penetrate more effectively, triggering natural healing responses that help rejuvenate skin while banishing damaged cells.
Heat generated by the light beams shrinks dilated blood vessels that make your skin tone look blotchy and uneven. Plus, the heat helps promote collagen production for skin that looks and feels firmer and smoother over time.
Because it uses gentler, broadband light, IPL therapy can be a good treatment choice for most people. Specifically, IPL photo facials are ideal for problems like:
Dr. Kainth can customize each session based on your goals and desires, and you can get repeat treatments to prolong your results.
Because your skin pigments absorb the IPL energy, photo facials tend to work best on people with lighter skin tones. Those with darker tones may notice changes in their skin color that persist after treatment, so it’s important to discuss this effect with Dr. Kainth prior to your session.
IPL treatment also may not be ideal for people with active skin infections, like herpes or impetigo.
Although IPL doesn’t involve any downtime, you still need to be committed to follow-up care, like using gentle skin care products and avoiding the sun while your skin is healing.
IPL photo facials offer a noninvasive, nonsurgical solution focused on helping your skin look healthier and more youthful. To find out if it’s right for your aesthetic goals, request an appointment online or over the phone with the team at Brunswick Internal Medicine Group in South Brunswick, Kendall Park, and Metuchen, New Jersey, today.
