Photofacial skin care treatments, also known as IPL, short for Intense Pulsed Light, are very effective, no down time, safe methods for removing pigment, or brown spots, and excess or broken blood vessels from the facial skin. Browns spots, broken blood vessels round the nose, chin and cheeks are classic signs of sun damage and aging of the facial skin. Brown spots, often called age spots are caused by pigment that is produced by the skin to protect the skin from the harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun. New blood vessels grow into the skin in reaction to skin injury, first to clean out damaged skin debris and later to bring in rejuran factors.

 

As the outer skin ages, the brown spots and broken blood vessels are put aside on the skin after the inflammation or skin injury has passed. These pigmented and red vascular spots create an aged variegated appearance to the facial skin that is called dyschromia, and is just a sign of facial aging. Photofacial skin care treatments are the treatment of selection for benign facial skin pigmentation, age spots, brown spots and broken blood vessels and small red spots called telangiectasia on the face. Photofacial treatments are actually preferred over laser light treatments for these specific pigment and vascular lesions.

 

What Causes Age Spots, Sun Spots, Red Blotches and Broken Blood Vessels on the Face Neck and Décolletage?

 

Browns spots and broken blood vessels round the nose, chin, cheeks, neck, hands and Décolletage are classic signs of sun damage and aging of the skin. Brown spots, often called age spots are caused by pigment that is produced by the skin to protect the skin from the harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun. New blood vessels grow into the skin in reaction to skin injury by the sun. This method of new blood vessel growth is known as inflammation.

 

The newest blood vessels bring blood to the facial skin first to clean out damaged skin cell debris and later to bring in skin healing factors.

 

As the outer skin ages, the brown spots and broken blood vessels are put aside on the skin after the inflammation or skin injury has passed. These pigmented and red vascular spots create an aged variegated appearance to the facial skin that is called dyschromia, which is really a sign of facial aging.

 

Photofacial skin care treatments or IPL treatments would be the non-surgical anti-aging skin care treatment of preference for benign facial skin pigmentation, age spots, brown spots and broken blood vessels, the small red spots called telangiectasia, on the facial skin, hands, neck and Décolletage. Photofacial treatments are actually preferred over laser light treatments for these specific pigment and vascular lesions.

 

How Do Photofacial or Intense Pulsed Light Non-surgical anti-aging Skin Care Treatments Work?

 

Photofacial or IPL anti-aging skin care treatments work with a bright flash of visible light, like the light of a camera flash to get rid of pigment and blood vessels non-surgically from the skin. This pulsed or flashed light is completely different from a laser and in many instances, less powerful and less dangerous that laser light.

 

I work with a Photofacial IPL machine called the LuxGreen IPL produced by Palomar Medical Laser Company in Burlington, Massachusetts. Palomar Medical is the premier manufacturer of Aesthetic Laser and Light therapy machines in the world. The LuxGreen Photofacial is the better Photofacial technology I've ever used. The LuxGreen Photofacial IPL machine is very effective and is probably the most comfortable for you personally the individual of any IPL device available.