WHY a Micropeel and its process….
When you’re young, the epidermis (dead tissue) is thin – Your dermis (live tissue) is thick… Your cells
rotate every 28 days (cell turnover) keeping your skin rotating and lively… As we age they reverse… Your
‘dead’ tissue gets thicker and more compact while your ‘live’ tissue get thinner...
Why? Through life we encounter sun damage, smoker’s environments, pollution, etc. known as ‘free
radicals’. Free radicals damage the collagens by attacking them and binding them up - essentially
disabling them so that they are unable to promote cell turnover. They are scavenger cell’s that attack
healthy ones (Think of a PACMAN)… When this occurs and ‘dead’ tissue begins to thicken and compact –
your cosmecueticals and skincare can’t penetrate through the epidermis to the live tissue, leading to
premature aging, wrinkles, etc.
The skin is an environmental barrier designed to keep things out… unfortunately, it also keeps the bad
things in (the free radicals)…generally only about one tenth of one percent of the nutrients in your
skincare applied will make it’s way through your epidermis to your live tissue…
Micro-peels are a process that enables us to penetrate the skin to allow anti-oxidants to affect the dermis
(live tissue)… A good anti-oxidant - because of what it’s made of… is a better food source for the free
radicals – the free radicals will jump from the collagens to the anti-oxidant and then be flushed out of the
body through the bloodstream. Causing the collagens to once again promote the cell turnover in the
dermis needed to maintain a younger, healthier and more vibrant dermis and skin appearance.
Alpha Hydroxy Acids, (AHA’s) which are most commonly known as lactic and glycolic etc. is the first layer
of chemical peeling agent applied to the skin. These ‘acids’ break the ‘glue’ or ‘bonds’ that hold the cells
together. It helps remove a superficial layer of dead skin cells. We follow this with a Microderm-abrasion
treatment (MDA) that will further eliminate major dead cells that are stopping product penetration. We
then follow this step with an additional chemical peel at a stronger pH concentration which allows for
us to create our ‘windows of opportunity’ into the dermis…
Epidermis - Dead Skin
Epidermis - Dead Skin
Dermis
Dermis
- Live Skin
- Live Skin
This is where true anti-aging or fighting acne begins with your patient. You have to affect live tissue.
Just to perform a treatment that only consist of an MDA or exfoliation of the skin – WILL NOT ANTI-AGE
your client. They only way to anti-age or affect overall skin condition and appearance for long lasting
results is to generate cell turnover in the live tissue. This is only achieved truly – with a medical grade
chemical acid with the pH below a 4. An aesthetician by law – working on her own, is not allowed to
touch the dermis. The natural pH of the skin averages 4.5 – the only acids she can purchase are of a pH
of 6 and above. Not allowing true penetration to the dermal layer. Medical grade acids are a pH of 3
and below.
The recommendation for achieving the best optimum result is to do a series of 6 treatments to ‘kick’ in
the cell turnover at a faster rate. One treatment a week for three weeks and then every other week for
an additional three treatments. If your skin rotates every 28 days… we are hitting it hard with micropeels
every 7 days… this jumps start the skin as it is not able to keep up with the cell turnover we are forcing it
to produce. We have also created a ‘superfical’ wound to the face - further making the skin produce
‘healing’ agents in the body to help produce the collagens at a faster rate than normal. The client should
see exceptional results within the first month of their treatments.