Technology & Treatments
Cosmetic vs Medical Needling
Canadian Skin treatment specialist Dr Lance Setterfield is researching the effects of dermal rolling of the epidermis (cosmetic needling) and dermis (medical needling) combined with pharmaceutical and homeopathic medications, plant extracts, vitamins, and other ingredients. The goal of the research is to narrow down the variables (e.g. depth of needles, frequenc..
Risk analysis for sunbed operators
It is still amazing that in the new millennium, Intense Pulsed Light technicians and sunbed operators are still taking risks with their clients when choosing appropriate settings for treatments or determining treatment suitabity. Specifically, the choice of energy settings with different types of skins, and in particular skins with a mixed genetic pool. The professional practice of determining ..
Sonophoresis
Sonophoresis: Increase the penetration of your actives!
Of all of the methods used in the delivery of active ingredients in to the skin, Sonophoresis has much to offer to the contemporary skin treatment therapist. The technology of using sound or sonic waves as a form of treatment has been around for a number of years, however this has been largely in the area of therapeutic treat..
Skin Cleaning with Ultrasonics
At first glance, cleaning the skin with Ultrasonics would seem somewhat of a contradiction. Certainly, Ultrasonic cleaning is efficient and is widely used in industry, medical, and laboratory situations for cleaning a variety of objects. It is especially useful on intricate shapes or fragile items where scrubbing would damage the surface. But how does it work, and how does it clean the skin?
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What are Oxygen Facials?
The skin treatment therapist will be offered many different technologies to treat their clients during their career, and unfortunately some of these technologies ultimately turn out to be more about good marketing than effective treatments. Case in point: tweezer electrolysis hair removal.
Oxygen facials is another modality that is increasing in popularity but also raising a number of q..
Led Photomodulation explained
In the ever-increasing modalities of skin treatment therapies comes LED Photomodulation, the latest form of Phototherapy.
This relatively new process has the unique ability to stimulate and/or inhibit cell-signalling pathways for skin rejuvenation and potentially represents the next frontier in anti-aging medicine.Photomodulation is a process that manipulates or regulates cell activity using li..
Microdermabrasion: A tool, not an answer
Researched by Ralph Hill
There are a number of modalities available to the therapist to resurface the skin to improve skin quality and improve cell turnover, and Microdermabrasion is one that has found a recent renaissance with the development of new devices. However, there is too often client expectations not met due to lack of understanding of what can be effectively treated with this modalit..
