IPL and Acne

As we have men­tioned before in this post, IPL Photo-Rejuvenation can help with sun-damaged skin, skin dis­col­orations and gen­eral improve­ment with skin tex­ture.  IPL tech­nol­ogy have suc­cess­fully treated brown spots (age spots, liver spots) and pig­men­ta­tion, photo aging (rough tex­ture, red and brown dis­col­orations), face veins (telang­iec­tasias), red­ness and brown mot­tled pig­men­ta­tion on the face, neck, chest, arms and hands, Rosacea and actinic ker­atoses (pre-cancers) and warts.  The recov­ery time is min­i­mal with­out the burns and blis­ters that go along with some other treatments. 

One such device that allows you to do an IPL treat­ment at home is the CLARO SX IPL Skin Clarifying System. It is an effec­tive way to treat your acne with a com­bi­na­tion of both heat and light to give you a much younger, clearer and blemish-free look­ing skin.

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Just what is Acne?

Acne is a bac­te­ria known as Propionibacterium Acnes, and is a nor­mal inhab­i­tant of the skin.  It uses sebum as a nutri­ent for growth.  When a pore is clogged with excess oil, it allows the bac­te­ria to mul­ti­ply and grow, attracting white blood cells to the fol­li­cle. This is the inflam­ma­tion that you will see being red and bumpy on your skin. 

How does CLARO SX work?

Now that we learn what acne in gen­eral is, it is not hard to under­stand how the CLARO SX work. If you have seen the device in action, you will see there is two kinds of light com­ing out of it, blue and red. Actually, it also uti­lizes infra-red but that is out­side the range of lights your eyes can see.  The Blue Light (400-430nm) stim­u­lates pro­duc­tion of oxy­gen, which attacks the bac­te­ria that causes acne.  Then, the Red Light (600nm) com­bines with heat to sooth inflam­ma­tion and red­ness and to pre­vent sore­ness in each area where the pim­ple is and then that speeds the skin’s nat­ural heal­ing process.  And, finally, the heat from the infra-red (700nm) will raise the tem­per­a­ture to wich the acne is killed and increases the effec­tive­ness of the blue light. 

What about my brown spots? 

Brown spots on the skin can be the result of of seb­or­rhea Keratosis, freck­les or ephelids, melasma, moles and lentigo or linti­grines or sim­ply age spots or sun spots.  Knowing what causes the spots is impor­tant as it can help deter­mine the type of treat­ment needed.  The best way to rid your­self of brown spots is to make sure you always wear a good sun­screen and to use anti-aging or wrin­kle creams.  Some of these creams con­tain ingre­di­ents such as hydro­quinone and antiox­i­dants like reti­naol, vit­a­min c and azeli­a­iac acid.  More com­pre­hen­sive meth­ods of remov­ing these spots include chem­i­cal peels and/or pig­ment laser tar­get therapy. 

Let us share with you a lit­tle secret here. A lit­tle birdie told our Editors that Claro is com­ing out with a device next year that uses yel­low light to treat the brown spots. Stay tune  as we would need your help in review­ing it (we don’t have many brown spots)

References:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/acne.html

http://www.skincarephysicians.com/acnenet/acne.html

http://www.clrstechnology.com/how_claro_works.php

http://acne.about.com/od/acneinformationglossary/g/pacnes.htm