Chemical Peels
Orange County, CA MedSpa offering Chemical Peels to customers in Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Garden Grove and Costa Mesa
The goal of chemical peel as a cosmetic procedure is to rejuvenate damaged skin due to many factors. Solar damage, aging are the most important factors causing premature wrinkles and dull looking skin.
There many chemical peel agents used to rejuvenate damaged skin with various component. But the ultimate goal is to remove damaged skin and stimulate collagen formation and formation of new skin.
The chemical agents are generally mild acids that cause peeling off the outer layer of damaged skin and formation of new one. There are many different strength of agent with various effect. The peel potency has a wide spectrum. Simply it ranges from very superficial, superficial, medium and deep level of peel referring to the depth of skin penetration and effect.
The risks and benefits of chemical peel is related to the type of the skin and strength of the chemicals in a given peel agent. In general, the type of skin varies from those that burn and never tan to those who hardly burn and always tan.
In general the more a skin type tans the more risk of complications with stronger chemical peels. The superficial and in some cases the medium peel are in general safer than deep peels. The superficial peels are minimally invasive and can be repeated with minimal risks to improve and maintain a healthy skin condition, where the deep peels are invasive and have more risks. The rest are somewhere in between. Thus, it is important to visit your cosmetic surgeon to determine in detail if you are a good candidate for chemical peel.
Chemical peels have proven to work well for facial rejuvenation given the fact that it is performed correctly by choosing the right chemical peel for the right skin type.