Chemical Peels and a Natural Option

Would you give yourself a second degree burn just to eliminate some wrinkles, sun spots, or facial scars? That's basically what a deep peel does.

This process removes the superficial layer of your skin and controls regeneration, making it look younger. There are considerable risks involved, from excessive sun light sensibility to intoxication from the applied chemicals. Here we will review its procedures, applied substances, risks, benefits, and how BIOSKINREPAIR ™ helps to get the same effect without all the risks.

Skin peels of varying descriptions have been used for thousands of years. According to historical accounts, ancient civilizations used masks composed of sour milk or wine residues to improve their appearance.

Today, we may not use milk or wine, but chemical peels remain a proven method to help regain the smooth, healthy complexion you desire. Peels destroy and remove the upper layers of skin to allow skin regeneration. The chemicals used are sometimes called exfoliates or wounding agents.

During a chemical peel, a solution is applied to the face, neck, chest, hands, arms, or legs and allowed to soak in the skin. Over the next 1 to 14 days, depending on how deeply the chemical penetrated the skin, the skin peels off. This procedure destroys parts of the skin in a controlled way so that new skin can grow in its place.

A deep peel results in the regeneration of collagen, the protein that is a major component in the body's connective tissue. A superficial peel can achieve good results with repeated applications.

Types of Chemical Peels

Superficial peels are the mildest type of chemical peel and can be used on all skin types. Superficial peels usually use liquid containing a mild (dilute) acid, most often glycolic acid. Dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) is sometimes used as well.

This kind of peel addresses only the outer layers of skin and results in a healthy glow that lasts for several weeks. Repeat peels are necessary to maintain results. Superficial peels are usually performed on an outpatient basis and no anesthesia is necessary.

Superficial peels are used to improve the appearance of pigment changes in the skin, acne scars, mild sun damage, or fine wrinkles. A superficial peel may also be used to prepare the skin for a deeper peel.
The results may not appear for some time, and when they do appear, they may be minimal. Repeated peels are often needed to produce the effect the person wants.

Medium peels penetrate the skin deeper than superficial peels and cause a second-degree burn of the skin. Trichloroacetic acid (TCA) is the main peeling agent used for medium peels, though the peel may also be done in several steps using a different chemical solution followed by TCA.

TCA (trichloroacetic acid) is stronger and flays the skin down to a greater depth.

This acid peel is often used to treat wrinkles, pigmentary changes, and skin blemishes especially on the face. For spot peeling of limited areas also, such as around the mouth, TCA formulas are often preferred because they have less bleaching effect than other agents. It can also be effective in treating people with darker skin and offer a shorter recovery time than with solutions used for lighter peels. A TCA peel may also require pretreatment with Alpha Hydroxy Acid or a Retin-A cream. Re-treatment is often needed after 3 to 6 months to produce the best effect.

Deep peels penetrate several layers of skin and cause a second-degree burn of the skin. They are used only on the face. A chemical called phenol is usually used for a deep peel. These peels may not be used on darker skin types because they tend to bleach the skin (hypopigmentation). Even in lighter-skinned people, phenol peels—or any type of deep resurfacing—may bleach the skin. A deep peel can be done only once in most cases.

Deep peels are used to treat severe wrinkles, long-term sun damage, pronounced pigment changes, and lesions and growths on the skin.  

Special Concerns with Deep Peels

Deep peels using phenol can sometimes cause severe complications during the procedure, including heart, liver, or kidney failure. In general, the deeper the peel, the greater the risk of side effects and complications.

Precancerous keratoses or scaling patches may improve after chemical peeling. However, the procedure does not correct sags, bulges, and deep furrows. Those conditions are often better treated by face, brow and eye lifts or soft tissue fillers.

Effects of a Chemical Peel

Medium Deep Peels
Sun block is always recommended after chemical peels, especially after a TCA treatment because your skin will be extremely sensitive to sunlight and may not tan evenly.

Deep Peels
The effects of a phenol chemical peel sometimes last as long as twenty years and have quite dramatic results, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Possible post-op complications can include scarring and infection of abnormal pigmentation. Some patients wear special make-up so treated areas will match the untreated areas. Physicians also caution that the acid solutions used in chemical peels can activate latent cold sore infections.

The skin will initially have a reddish color that may take six months to fade away completely, but the average person can start wearing makeup and return to work and his or her social life in a couple of weeks. A deep peel can be a painful, emotionally difficult process to endure, but the end result is a remarkably smoother, relatively wrinkle- free skin that lasts for 15 years or more.

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BIOSKINREPAIR ™ CREAM is a Natural Option to Peeling with Chemicals

BIOSKINREPAIR ™ is made with a natural glycoconjugates compound that contains enzymes that digest damaged cells and molecules that orchestarte the orderly layout of new skin structures to replace those worn out or damaged.

The substance is produced by a land snail of the species Helix Aspersa Müller, the same they use to quickly repair their own skin and shell whenever is damaged. It is a liquid that we make into an odorless white cream.

Analysis of the fluid has determined that it contains activators of skin growth factors, antimicrobial peptides, natural anti-inflammatory and immune modulating proteins, glycoproteins, glycosaminoglycans that tightly bind divalent copper cations, a high level of Copper (II).

Double blind studies comparing placebo to the active product on one side of the face compared to the other using objective techniques to measure wrinkle depth have shown improving in this parameter as well as skin smoothness, suppleness, and reduction of hiperpigmentation in more than 80% of subjects studied. Most people have seen results in as little as two weeks when they have applied BIOSKINREPAIR ™ CREAM twice a day every day.

Topical application of BIOSKINREPAIR ™ is also a potent message that signals to your system that it is being taking care of in a balanced and proper way with all the ingredients that help accelerate the natural skin renewal process.

Application of the cream night and day for a period of 2 months yields:

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