Sun Damaged skin? Try a Chemical Peel

[00:00:00]There's a number of different peeling agents, and what these are doing is they interact chemically with the proteins within the skin. And once that protein is denatured, there is a separation that occurs depending on the depth of penetration of the chemical peel, and the depth of penetration is associated with the type of peel you're having done and the concentration of the peel. It goes from superficial, light, medium to deep, and the most popular are superficial and light and and even medium. But what you're doing is is basically you're separating the layers of the skin. Once that protein is denatured, the skin will then start to peel off as a dead layer, and when it occurs, whatever happens to be within that space, whether it's pigment, whether it's some fine lines, etc., will be physically removed. So, the skin will then look much more refreshed. Now, there's also some peels that target a little bit deeper. They can go further down. So, if the pigment happens to rest in the upper dermis, for example, you can remove it. But, there's an inverse relationship between efficacy and downtime when it comes to chemical peels. The more superficial, the lower the downtime. Also, the least amount of change that you're going to see because you're really just removing the upper upper layers of the epidermis. You'll get a freshening effect. Now, you go down to the light and medium depth, some pigment may live in that particular layer, and once you peel it, that gets removed as well. So, the skin can look significantly more clear, look more bright, and have improvement in its all around discoloration because you've just physically removed a bunch of pigment along with it. And if you do have melasma, stay away from chemical peels.

[00:01:41]I know some providers and some peels advertise towards melasma. Trust me, in the long run, this is not a good treatment for melasma. And in many ways, it could make it worse, which is exactly what you don't want to see happen when you already have some darkening patches that you're treating here.