Basic facials focus on relaxation, exfoliation, cleansing, and moisturization. Medical-grade facial treatments, on the other hand, provide these services while also addressing specific skin concerns. A professional consultation with the Albuquerque, NM, aesthetic medical spa can help you determine the best treatment for your skin problems.
Why Get a Facial Treatment?
Your skin is the largest organ in your body. Apart from protecting you from infections, it conveys the quality of your health. Youthful, fresh, and beautiful facial skin gives people a great impression of you.
While sagging skin, acne, wrinkles, and age spots can lower your self-esteem, treating them can boost it. The most efficient way to achieve this is through relatively safe treatments like:
- Laser skin treatment
- Microdermabrasion
- Light therapy
- Thermage
- Chemical peels
- Oxygen facial
Laser Skin Treatment
Laser skin treatment involves two treatments; laser skin resurfacing and laser skin rejuvenation. Laser skin resurfacing removes the damaged outer layers of your facial skin and stimulates the production of more collagen. The procedure can reduce or remove fine lines and wrinkles from the face and neck.
Laser skin rejuvenation is considered a safer alternative to traditional facelifts. It delivers infrared light and heat to your skin’s inner layers to tighten it and stimulate collagen production. Laser skin rejuvenation tightens the skin and eliminates wrinkles.
Microdermabrasion
Microdermabrasion skin rejuvenation works to eliminate light acne scars, age spots, wrinkles, and discoloration. Your physician or esthetician sprays tiny crystals onto your face with a handheld instrument. The crystals gently sand your skin while the device applies suction to remove the crystals and exfoliated cells.
The entire procedure is minimally invasive and takes a short time.
Light Therapy
Light therapy treatments are non-invasive. They utilize different wavelengths of light to address acne, wrinkles, freckles, facial veins, brown spots, enlarged pores, uneven pigmentation, and other skin imperfections.
Blue light therapy alleviates inflammation and is perfect for treating acne and breakouts. Intense Pulsed Light can address the effects of aging, sun damage, and heredity on your skin.
Light-based therapies rarely result in side effects and require no downtime for recovery. They also do not damage your facial skin.
Thermage
Thermage Facial Rejuvenation is a non-exfoliating technique that tightens and improves your face and neck contours. The process involves passing a radiofrequency device over your face. The tip is usually in contact with the surface of your skin.
The controlled radio waves applied to your skin supply heat to the deeper layers of your skin and boost collagen development.
Thermage produces tighter and smoother facial skin. It does not require any downtime.
Chemical Peels
Chemical peels are facial cosmetic treatments that use acids to stimulate skin turnover. They rejuvenate and decongest the skin, eliminating deep-set wrinkles, age spots, scars, and photodamage. Chemical peels are an effective anti-aging treatment.
There are different types of chemical peels, and some have to be performed in a medical facility by a physician. Light peels can be done by an esthetician and may take two days to heel.
Oxygen Facial
Oxygen facials put to use the amazing benefits of oxygen to nourish, refresh, and renew your facial skin. The process involves the use of a device to spray oxygen onto your face in a highly-pressured form. Your esthetician then applies vitamin-rich serums to your face and uses the device to infuse them deep into your skin
Oxygen facials hydrate and brighten the skin.
Final Thoughts
A trip to your favorite medispa can set you up with youthful, fresh, and vibrant facial skin. If you are struggling with acne, fine lines, wrinkles, or other skin imperfections, talk to the team at Freya’s Lair Medical Spa about a facial treatment.
