Chemical Facial Peel
October 24th, 2009 | 
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Chemical Facial Peel also known as chem-exfoliation or derma-peeling, is a technique to improve the appearance of your skin. In this treatment, a chemical solution is applied to the skin, causing it to “blister” and eventually peel off. The new, regenerated skin is usually smoother and less wrinkled than the old skin.
Facial chemical peels are helpful for you if you have facial blemishes, wrinkles and uneven skin pigmentation on your skin. If you present a skin which is severely damaged due to deep wrinkles, you can be a good candidate for the chemical facial peel.
Treatments with facial chemical peels are the best treatments for wrinkle free skin care, which works well for fine as well as for coarse wrinkles.
If you are suffering with fine and deep rhytids, uncontrollable acne, acne scars, ephelides, lentigines, telangiectasias and actinic keratoses, your skin is suitable for treatment with chemical facial peel.
Skin with dyschromia, premalignant skin tumors and acne scars can also be treated with chemical peeling. Chemical facial peel provides you the best skin care in all these cases.
Chemical Peel Guide
Chemical facial peels may also remove pre-cancerous skin growths, soften acne facial scars and even help control acne. Chemical peels are a good preventative regimen for cancerous skin care and are most often included as a part of skin cancer treatment.
Originally, only women with a fair complexion were the ideal candidates for deep chemical peels. However, there are phenol-based chemical peel techniques which can be safely performed on you, even if you have olive or dark skin.
Thick male skin is usually less responsive to a deep peel so this skin resurfacing procedure is not normally suitable for males.
Consultation with skin care specialists
If you are thinking of going for a chemical peel procedure, you should first fix a meeting with your skin care specialist. In the meeting your should discuss your expectations out of the facial chemical peel, your age, sun exposure history, any genetic predisposition to hypertrophic scars or keloids and also the issues such as chemical peel cost.
Skin type and color, ethnic background and age are important factors in determining which of the different chemical facial peel procedures is most appropriate for your skin. If you have problems such as allergies, previous burns, a history of poor scars, or radiation exposure, you may need special evaluation to determine if you are a good candidate for chemical facial peels or not. If you have had cold sores and blisters around the mouth, inform your surgeon of this condition as this could be a problem with some chemical peel techniques.
Do not hide anything from your skin care specialist and inform him or her about your scar formation history. While this is less of an issue with superficial chemical peels like glycolic acid peels, it is required with a more potent professional skin care regimen such as phenol peels. A thorough medical history, including surgeries such as facelifts, radiation treatments, dermabrasion and laser treatments, is definitely required by your skin care specialist.
Your facial skin care specialist may recommend a skin care regimen prior to the procedure for preparing your skin for more aggressive procedures or chemical peel. If you have extensive damage from aging or injury, he may recommend you more than one procedure – mixed peels, microdermabrasion or laser resurfacing to offer you the best results.
Facial chemical peel procedure can be performed on you even if you have hypertension, diabetes mellitus, thrombocytopenia, thyroid malfunction, as long as your disease is stable and in controlled state.
Catherine Halls
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What are the side effects during a Facial Chemical Peel?
It’s been 5 days since I had a facial chemical peel done. My face has swelled up and I have a lot of tiny red bumps only on my cheeks that itch very bad. I also feel tightness and dryness around the mouth area is this normal? I received a post care instruction sheet with very little instructional information. I research on line and I see different answers. If anyone has experienced such thing due to a chemical peel please send feedback.
Wish I had a better answer for you, but wanted to tell you that a friend of my husband’s got one and her face was so red for about a month and she also looked very dry. Its been about seven months since she’s had it and it is just now starting to look like it did before (normal). I personally didn’t see the benefits, but she does and says she’ll do it again! I hope someone can tell you what to do. I feel bad for ya
Take care.
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Honestly, it depends on what chemical peel you had. Different ingredients cause different reactions. Call the place you got the peel at and find out the name, then go online to find out the side effects. Most peel companies also have an 800 number to call with questions.
What’s normal across the board: tightness and dryness, especially around the mouth, nose and eyes; itching (a result of dryness). A little bit of swelling would be normal.
Depending on the peel the information on their website should have what to do if it itches (often using hydro cortisone cream), etc. It will also contain typical symptoms of an allergic reaction. You should have received moisturizer for aftercare, if not, find out what moisturizers you can use with the peel. That should help with the tightness, dryness and probably itching. If it’s a really strong peel, 10 days of downtime is typical.
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