Chemical Peel
FAQs

A chemical peel is a treatment used to combat a number of different skin conditions and improve skin texture and tone. An acid is applied to skin to lower the pH, which loosens the connections between dead skin cells, inducing exfoliation and stimulating new cell growth. This process causes superficial layers of dead skin to peel off, revealing a smoother and more radiant complexion. Chemical peels can also thicken the epidermis, increase dermal volume and stimulate collagen!

Beautiful skin doesn’t happen overnight and treatments take time to show results. A single chemical peel can provide the immediate effect of bright and radiant skin, however, more significant results in treating skin concerns can take up to 4-6 treatments

The downtime of an AlumierMD peel is minimal. Due to the nature of these treatments, you should not necessarily expect to ‘peel’. However, you may have light to moderate flaking in a few localised areas for 3 to 7 days. You may also experience residual redness, which lasts in most patients from 1 to 12 hours. During the first 24 hours your skin will feel tight and ‘pulled’. Although you may or may not actually ‘peel’, it is likely that you will experience light ‘exfoliation’. It may take 2 or more treatments to target the deeper layers of skin to loosen and ‘peel’.

Peeling of the dead skin layers can be macroscopic, meaning you can see the peeling, or microscopic, meaning peeling is occurring on a cellular level, but the skin is not visually flaking. Therefore, you can have an effective chemical peel without actually seeing your skin peeling.