IPL Skin Rejuvenation
When it comes to skin rejuvenation there are many treatments on offer that will stimulate collagen and elastin fibres to give you a more youthful, firm skin.
However, I want to focus on a skin treatment that sometimes gets pushed aside and that is IPL (Intense pulsed light). IPL has been around since the 90's and at first was confused with laser. IPL is not a Laser so works completely different when rejuvenating the skin.
IPL is used for treating:
How does IPL work?
The most simple way to explain IPL for skin rejuvenation is: IPL delivers photons (wavelengths) which is converted into thermal energy in the skin. Thermal energy will create heat in the collagen fibres causing the collagen to contract or tighten. The wavelengths are able to penetrate down into the dermis where they are absorbed by water, this triggers cytokines resulting in stimulation of collagen and elastin.
However, when treating sun damaged pigmentation the process is a little different as pigmentation is in the epidermis (top layer of the skin). IPL still delivers photons that carry heat into the skin, but instead of stimulating collagen and elastin the heat breaks up the pigment. If you have had IPL for pigmentation you would have noticed the pigmentation became dark patches and then flaked off. The dark patches is the shattered pigment.