Here are a few powerful anti-aging professional treatments, plus a few awesome anti-age products to take home with you.
Your concerns
Sometimes, your skin is just changing. The changes might be subtle – perhaps a few textural changes and some fine lines. You might just be worried about getting older. In this case, the treatments will be more focused on treating the changes you’re seeing and preventing any further damage.
On the other hand, if you have extremely sun-damaged skin (from tanning as a student or working the cruise ships as a young adult) you might need more in-depth (and sometimes a little more invasive) treatments that will address deeper skin changes and offer powerful protection from any further damage.
How deep is the damage?
There are natural changes that happen with age and sun exposure in your skin’s epidermis (top layer of the skin that sheds) and dermis (the layer below). And each layer needs to be treated differently – dermal treatments don’t work on the epidermal layers and vice versa.
Generally, the two treatments can be combined – this is especially necessary where there are visible signs of aging, lines, wrinkles, textural changes, mottled pigment and sagging of the skin.
PROFESSIONAL ANTI-AGING TREATMENTS
Professional Alpha Peel
Glycolic acid is an alpha-hydroxy acid (fruit acid) derived from sugar cane. And it’s what we use to make the Alpha Chemical Skin Peel, one of the most widely used for the treatment of photo-aging – or sun-damaged skin.
Retistore and Retistore Plus Peels
When doing chemical peels or chemical resurfacing, the aim in the long term is to restructure the entire epidermis of the skin. Doing this in one treatment with any other product can be painful and result in up to 14 days of social downtime. Retinol-based Lamelle Retistore and Retistore Plus gives us full epidermal restructuring with virtually NO discomfort and a very comfortable period of downtime that is more socially acceptable.
About Retistore
Retistore Plus has double the active ingredients and is focussed on lighter skin colours where aging is more related to lines, wrinkles and sagging. Retistore is less aggressive and is focussed on darker skin colours where aging is more related to pigmentation irregularities, change in texture and dull skin.
Your skincare therapist will suggest the best treatment for the challenges you are experiencing on your skin. She will suggest a course of treatments and might start with Retistore and move over on to the Retistore Plus when she feels your skin is ready for it.
Lamelle Nova Pen: Collagen-Induction Therapy
The one and only original: Lamelle Nova Pen. The Nova Pen is a highly specialised tool that was designed through years of research. It’s used for microneedling – a process that creates multiple micro-injuries in the skin to either: help your product penetrate deeply into the skin or to stimulate the skin to remove old tissue and replace it with healthy new collagen and dermal structures for age-defying skin. This professional treatment is called Collagen-Induction Therapy.
Collagen-Induction Therapy
Collagen induction therapy will entail and in-office treatment with a Lamelle Nova Pen that has a needle length of 1mm or more. This treatment is used to create micro injuries that will activate the inflammatory-healing processes in the deeper dermal layers of the skin.
This acute inflammatory process activates the skin’s natural removal of old, damaged collagen and elastin, as well as scar tissue. Your body will then also activate its fibroblast cells to produce more new fibroblasts (proliferation), and they in turn produce more healthy collagen, elastin and everything that lies around these structures (extracellular matrix).
In this way, the scarring (including acne scars), fine lines and texture are treated and deeper lines are softened.
Where to get these professional anti-aging treatments
The best way to get the most advanced aging skin treatments are to speak to your Lamelle approved skin therapist or doctor. She is trained to do a thorough skin assessment before advising you on the treatments that are best for your individual skin needs.
For more information on what causes aging, have a look at our info on aging skin.
Anti aging at home
Your therapist or doctor will also advise on the best anti-age creams, serums, and products to use for aging skin. Here is a few anti-age home treatments you might be interested in:
- Prepare skin cells for home care with Skin Essence
- Prevent skin aging with Lamelle Nourish
- Get advanced UV protection with Lamelle Helase 50
- Boost anti-age effects with suitable Lamelle Correctives