A chemical peel is a cosmetic treatment that removes the top layer of your skin, helping to minimize wrinkles, dullness, hyperpigmentation, and scarring. People prefer peels to improve the appearance of acne scars, melasma, sun-damaged skin, and wrinkles. Chemical peels use chemicals that enable the removal of the skin pigment melanin.

A chemical peel, known as chemexfoliation, uses a chemical solution to improve the appearance of the skin. The treatment involves applying this solution to your skin, causing trauma or injury to the layers of the skin. The skin layers eventually peel off, revealing more young and radiant skin.

Various methods of skin peeling treatment are available, like Yellow Peel, Pumpkin Peel, Peel Booster, and AHA Peel. Chemical Peel comes in different types where acids are used to treat skin disorders. The Chemical Peel treatment includes Salicylic Acid Peel, Glycolic Acid Peel, Phenol Peel, and Fruit Acid Peel. But the treatment should be followed by specific guidelines.

Although the treatment is safe if carried out under trained aestheticians, many people still hold some false notions about the chemical peel. Here we bust some myths so that you are exposed to real facts!

SOME MYTHS ABOUT CHEMICAL PEELS:

• Chemical peels are painful and unsafe

They gently exfoliate and leave you feeling soft and refreshed. They don’t sting and are not painful. A licensed aesthetician performs chemical peel treatments, so they are safe. Skin Peeling treatments use natural products which are harmless and need not require any aftercare. But chemical skin peeling treatment requires a few measures, such as a person should not use acne creams 2 to 3 days before and after the treatment. Avoid sun exposure for 2-3 days. Also, SPF creams should be used.

• Your skin will peel heavily

Chemical peels use acid to remove only the top layer of your skin. It does not do much damage. The skin may or may not peel after a chemical peel treatment, depending on the depth of the peel. Each individual is different. A chemical peel does not necessarily produce heavy peeling.

• If You Have Sensitive Skin, You Can’t Get a Peel

There are many assumptions that you can’t get a chemical peel if you have sensitive skin. That is not true; several peels are available to treat sensitive skin, acne, rosacea, or eczema. Some peels help to calm the skin, reducing inflammation. 

• They’re bad for you

The word chemical gives the peels a frightening name, but they are good for you. The chemicals are natural elements such as lactic acid, fermented milk, glycolic acid, and sugar cane. It is safe and effective.

• Just one peel session is needed

One skin peel will not solve all your skin problems. A series of chemical peels are needed to get the results. It will take 6 to 8 peels over 4 to 6 weeks to get the desired look. If you have deeper wrinkles, acne scars, or dark spots, you may need to receive a chemical peel treatment every six to eight weeks. A chemical peel may be needed at different intervals to treat acne problems.

Hope this article helped bust some myths and misconceptions regarding chemexfoliation. If this  beauty treatment is on your mind, you can go ahead with confidence.