How does IPL Skin Rejuvenation Treatment Work?

IPL/RF treatment works by directing well-controlled pulses of light into the upper skin layer. The light is absorbed by two of the body’s own natural chemicals – melanin in the pigmented areas and haemoglobin in the red blood. Both these pigments convert the light energy into heat. This heat is used to destroy the parts of the cells in which the melanin is stored, and to damage the walls of the vessels supplying blood to the areas where vascular damage is seen. This technique has the name “Selective Photo thermolysis”. The visible light is carefully controlled to produce the correct pulse length and right amount of energy to destroy the targets without damaging surrounding tissues.   

The E-light IPL system helps to regenerate new collagen and elastin, enhance skin elasticity and firmness, diminish fine lines and wrinkles, minimise large pores and whiten all skin types.  This process will reveal a naturally younger appearance with clearer and more even complexion without any facial alterations. 

Photo REJUVENATION treats and minimize skin conditions like :

• ageing, wrinkles,
• is especially effective at treating dark spots
• acne scarring
• rosacea, and scars associated with rosacea, 
• broken capillaries, 
• vascular redness, 
• blood vessels and patched discoloration and sun-damage on the face and other parts of the body. 

How does the IPL Work on Acne?

  IPL/RF treatment works by directing well-controlled pulses of light into the upper skin layer. The light is absorbed by the body’s own natural chemical – haemoglobin – in the blood vessels that feed the sebaceous glands. IPL treatment works by reducing the blood supply to the sebaceous gland, which slows down production of the body oil sebum. The haemoglobin converts the light energy into heat, which damages the walls of the vessels supplying blood to the glands. This technique has the name “Selective Photo thermolysis”. The visible light produced by IPL systems is carefully controlled to produce the correct pulse length and right amount of energy to penetrate through the tissue and destroy acne bacteria quickly and easily without damaging the surrounding tissue.   

E-Light can effectively clear mild to moderate inflammatory acne and dramatically improve the overlook of your skin. 

Typically, just 6 treatments over a two month period will greatly improve the appearance of skin as well as even out skin tone and improve acne scaring.

Medication can help to reduce acne, but an IPL/RF procedure in combination with prescription medication has been clinically proven to accelerate the healing process for acne. 

The treatment includes deep skin cleansing and our signature therapy for a better results. 

Vascular Therapy

• E-Light effectively collapses veins and broken capillaries without doing any damage to the surrounding outer layers of the skin. The reason for this is that the IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) is preferentially absorbed by the red colour in the blood which flows in the veins. This light together with radio frequency converts to heat, causing shrinkage of the vein. The wavelength discharged through the pulse of the machine enables the light and radio frequency to reach the targeted veins under the skin, clearing or fading the vein significantly.

Pigmentation 

• E-light technology has been used with great success to remove pigmented areas on the skin. Using this state of the art technology, charged energy light (IPL) and radio frequency (RF) are selectively emitted and absorbed by the pigmented areas, sparing the normal surrounding tissue. Combining Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) with radio frequency (RF) requires less melanin-dependent light energy to successfully treat pigmentation, being therefore safer for treating darker skin tones. Skin pigmentation in the face, neck, chest and hands can be treated safely and effectively. The added benefit of the E-Light technology is that it also works to activate cells in the skin called fibroblasts which stimulate collagen remodelling and new collagen production. Effectively, this helps to rejuvenate the skin, improving its texture, visibly minimising pores and reducing superficial fine lines and wrinkles to reveal a more youthfully hydrated appearance.

After treatment you may experience slight redness but don’t worry this will clear very quickly. The results are fantastic, so we recommend anyone to come along for a consultation where all your questions can be answered and a clear suitable treatment plan will be given.

Sun-damaged skin

• While the trauma of ageing skin is nowhere near as great as for vascular or pigmented lesions, the simple fact remains that most people do not like the thought of ageing. Exposure to the sun accelerates the ageing process of the skin, and can cause disruption in the normal blood supply to the skin (which results in vascular disorders such as telangiectasias or diffuse redness) It can also cause irregular pigmentation that shows as freckles (ephelides) or age-spots (solar lentigines), and irregular pore size. 

• E-LIGHT, a technology combining Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) with Radio Frequency (RF). This advanced combination proves effective even in cases where other systems fail.

Using a combination of IPL and RF as described above, hair loss can be seen even after the very first session. The treatment acts on the hairs that are currently in the growth phase, which will typically fall out in the days to weeks following treatment. Other hairs not in the growth stage continue to grow normally, but will be affected on subsequent sessions. Eventually, after a small number of treatments, there will be no more visible hairs remaining.

An important advantage that E-LIGHT hair removal technology has over traditional laser is that it is the only method that is effective for blond, brown and dark hair. All skin types work as well: white, dark, mature or sensitive.

  How many session are necessary?

•  Because the laser/E-light only acts on hairs that are in the growth phase, the numbers of sessions for hair removal depends on the type and colour of the hair, the density, the area to be treated, its location and the length of the hair growth cycle.  The area being treated and individual genetic factors also determine the number of treatments required.  This is why it is difficult to give an exact number of sessions.     

However, it is generally accepted that an average of eight to ten  sessions are usually sufficient to get the desired results.