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Post Treatment Aftercare Instructions

DermaFrac

Immediately after your DermaFrac™ treatment, your skin is very receptive to all products that are applied to it. This may be ideal as it allows for greater absorption of beneficial ingredients, but at the same time it also leaves your skin open to irritation and reactivity to certain products and the environment. Due to this reason you must be very careful with regards to what you put onto your skin and what environmental influences and exposures you come into contact with to avoid adverse effects. The following outlines exactly what you need to do to look after your skin after DermaFracTM treatments to ensure optimal results may be obtained without irritation and complications.

 

First 48 Hours

WHAT TO EXPECT 

  • Slight skin sensitivity with redness
  •   Slight reactivity to products that are usually tolerated
  • Skin dryness and dehydration with a ‘taut’ feeling

WHAT TO DO

  •   Follow the skincare regime set well by your skincare professional
  • Follow strict sun protection measures including physical sunscreen, hat, sunglasses and sun avoidance
  •  Eat healthy and drink water

WHAT TO AVOID

  • Sun exposure!!!
  • Hot showers and saunas for the first 48 hours
  • Exfoliating products
  •  Highly fragranced products
  • Certain skin care ingredients: artificial colours, alcohols, lanolin, petrolatum, chemical sunscreens, benzoyl peroxide, hydroquinone
  • Exercise that induces sweat
  •  All vitamin A products
  •  Products containing AHAs and BHAs
  • The use of washcloths on the skin
  • Anti-wrinkle injections and dermal fillers
  • Skin treatments of all varieties: peels, laser/IPL, facials, needling, microdermabrasion and epidermal levelling
  • Shaving and waxing in the area of treatment
  • Do not scratch, pick, pull at or abrade the treated skin

48-72 hours

WHAT TO EXPECT

  •  Skin sensitivity and redness may be decreasing at this point or gone
  •  Skin dryness and dehydration may be present in some cases

      WHAT TO DO

  • Follow the skincare regime set by your skincare professional
  •  Follow strict sun protection measures including physical sunscreen, hat, sunglasses and sun avoidance
  •   Resume normal exercise
  •  Resume wearing of makeup as normal
  •  Eat healthy and drink water

WHAT TO AVOID

  • Sun exposure!!!
  •  Saunas
  •  Exfoliating products
  • Highly fragranced products
  •  Certain skin care ingredients: artificial colours, alcohols, lanolin, petrolatum, chemical sunscreens, benzoyl peroxide, hydroquinone.
  •  All vitamin A products
  •  Products containing AHAs and BHAs
  • The use of washcloths on the skin
  • Skin treatments of all varieties: peels, laser/IPL, facials, needling, microdermabrasion and epidermal levelling
  • Anti-wrinkle injections and dermal fillers
  •  Shaving and waxing in the area of treatment
  • Do not scratch, pick, pull at or abrade the treated skin

 

Days 4-7

WHAT TO EXPECT

  •   Your skin is moving towards normal function
  • Redness and sensitivity should be gone by this point – if not contact your skincare professional
  • A vibrant, healthy-looking complexion with a smoother skin texture

WHAT TO DO

  • Follow the skincare regime set by your skincare professional
  • Follow strict sun protection measures including physical sunscreen, hat, sunglasses and sun avoidance
  • Eat healthy and drink water

WHAT TO AVOID

  • Sun exposure!!!
  • Saunas
  • Exfoliating products
  • Highly fragranced products
  •  Certain skin care ingredients: artificial colours, alcohols, lanolin, petrolatum, chemical sunscreens, benzoyl peroxide, hydroquinone
  •  Anti-wrinkle injections and dermal fillers
  • All vitamin A products
  • Products containing AHAs and BHAs
  • Skin treatments of all varieties: peels, laser/IPL, facials, needling, microdermabrasion epidermal levelling
  • Shaving and waxing in the area of treatment
  • Do not scratch, pick, pull at or abrade the treated skin

Day 7 onwards

 WHAT TO EXPECT

  •   Your skin has resumed normal function
  • A vibrant, healthy-looking complexion with a smoother skin texture

WHAT TO DO

  • Follow the skincare regime set by your skincare professional
  • Follow strict sun protection measures including physical sunscreen, hat, sunglasses and sun avoidance
  •  Resume use of exfoliating, vitamin A and AHA/BHA products as advised by your skincare professional
  • Resume skin treatments as advised by your skincare professional
  •  Eat healthy and drink water

WHAT TO AVOID

  •  Sun exposure!!!
  • Waxing, electrolysis and depilatory procedures and also Bleaching or hair dying in the area of treatment needs to be avoided for 2 weeks post treatment
  • Peels, epidermal microdermabrasion, levelling, home needling and dermal fillers need to be avoided for at least 2 weeks post treatment
  •  IPL/Laser Skin Rejuvenation, in clinic needling, fractional ablative, full ablative laser and surgery in the area of treatment needs to be avoided for up to 4 weeks post treatment – seek advice from your skincare professional.