LED LIGHT THERAPY

What is LED light therapy and how does it work? 

LED Light therapy is a natural and completely non-invasive beauty treatment for all ages, skin types and skin tones. It's fantastic for all-round health, delivering energy into the skin's cells to boost collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid. It hydrates and plumps the skin leaving you with a lovely glow and even skin tone, and is great for those with more problematic or sensitive skin, correcting irregularities, such as psoriasis and acne. 

LED therapy delivers energy in the form of light deep into the body to energise and improve cell activity, kick-starting the rejuvenation process and treating all the layers of the skin as it penetrates conditioning and hydrating the outer cells as well as boosting the deeper cells. 

It places the skin into a state of repair, which leads to an increase in the production of collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid. Hydration is also boosted, improving plumpness, reducing fine lines and wrinkles, and brightening the complexion, allowing the skin to look fresher. 

LED therapy also maintains youthful complexions and supports and repairs ageing skin, speeding up blood circulation which nourishes the treatment area, further boosting regeneration. It switches on your immune system allowing the body to efficiently ingest compromised and damaged cells, reproduce healthy cells and aid cell detoxification, which helps in the prevention and treatment of glycation. 

LED therapy is effectively a “first aid kit”, healing wounds reducing bruising and swelling and calming skin disorders (rosacea, psoriasis, eczema). It can be used to treat the most vulnerable and sensitive skin types and acts as an anti-inflammatory, whilst also strengthening the skin to help alleviate further symptoms.  

LED photo technology activates cellular metabolism and energy, assisting the production of collagen and elastin synthesis by increasing ATP synthesis and metabolising the fibroblast cells. Photo-modulation emulates photosynthesis in human skin cells, using the cell’s own cytochromes to build new proteins just as in plants use chlorophyll to convert sunlight into structural building blocks. Low wattage light is directed through the skin’s epidermis and aimed at fibroblast cells, which produce collagen and elastin. The light stimulates the cell’s own energy transport system, therefore helping to stimulate and renew the skin. 

The benefits: 

Hydration:  

Treats dry and dehydrated skin by boosting Hyaluronic Acid within the skin. Treats deep and superficial hydration, plumps and reduces fine lines and wrinkles. 

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Oily Skin: 

Balances out oil production and mattifies. 

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Thin, vulnerable skin: 

LED is a fantastic treatment for strengthening crepey, vulnerable skin. It encourages new healthy cells and supports them until they mature into nice plump cells – Many people over exfoliate nowadays, which means their skin has a flatness to it, and the cells remain in a premature state, never fully maturing. 

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Thickened skin: 

Whilst LED greatly strengthens skin, especially fragile and vulnerable skin, it also helps refine very thick and over oily skin, which is improved, along with texture. 

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Pigmentation: 

LED Doesn’t work in the same way as IPL and laser, which target pigmentation by breaking it down and bringing it to the surface. Instead LED calms the melanocytes and thickens the epidermal layer by producing healthy cells, encouraging them to mature, improving plumpness and reducing the appearance of pigmentation. Treat the complexion as a whole, improving clarity and overall tone. 

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Texture: 

Greatly improves texture. One of the first things most clients notice is a smoothness and softness to the skin. We usually say they will notice improvements to their skin around treatment 4, but some notice improvements earlier and smoothness is one of them. 

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Fine lines and wrinkles: 

Increases hyaluronic acid and collagen production, which in turn plumps the skin and reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. 

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Acne: 

LED light attacks and destroys the bacteria that causes acne and reduces inflammation in the blemish, speeds up the healing process and improves overall condition of the skin. The complexion will be fresher, brighter and skin texture and tone is improved.

Red Blood Vessels: 

Strengthens the skin’s blood capillaries, leading to improved oxygenation and detoxification of the skin. LED doesn’t target veins, but improves appearance by hydrating capillaries and thickening epidermal layer. 

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Pre & post sun exposure: 

Boosts anti-oxidants and protective cells, preparing skin to deal with sun exposure and restoring skin post. 

Rosacea/ Eczema /Psoriasis: 

Switches the system on to create healthy cells, whilst renewing the lining in blood vessels and forming new blood vessel to improve skin’s appearance 

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Bone Density: 

Penetrates bone and brings oxygenated blood to the area, which improves bone density. Bones naturally degenerates as we age, and LED light therapy will help to maintain bone structure around the eye socket and jaw line. 

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Allergies: 

Improved lymphatic system can help your body fight off infection, speed up healing and recovery from illness and reduce the chance of suffering from minor colds and viruses. 

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Puffiness: 

Improves puffiness by reducing inflammation and improving lymphatic system – flow can be doubled with LED use, increasing drainage and toxin removal. 

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Scar tissue: 

Can break down and speed up healing in scar tissue 

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Stress: 

Lower stress levels hormones during the treatment, including cortisol levels. 

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Energising: 

Stimulates blood flow round the whole body, energising and nourishing skin and organs. 

LED light therapy procedure: 

LED light therapy can be treatment on its own or as an add on to other treatments which have caused trauma to the skin such as microneedling, dermaplaning, Plasma skin tightening. 

If LED light therapy is performed as course of treatment then the following will occur at each appointment:  

The room will be sanitized before you arrive. When you arrive, we will go through the procedure, the desired outcome and health and safety which would have been discussed with you beforehand. You can ask as many questions as you wish before the treatment takes place. Age identification will be checked then you will read and sign the consent form and before photos will be taken. Your face will be cleansed and the LED light machine will be placed over the area to be treated. The natural light will be blocked out from the treatment room and the LED light will be set to the correct wavelength frequency to treat the area. After photos will be taken. 

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Treatment frequency: 

Once a week 

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Possible side effects: 

There aren’t any treatment limits as LED is totally harmless.  

Unfortunately, those with the following can’t have the LED light therapy treatment: 

There aren’t any treatment limits as LED is totally harmless. However, due to insurance reasons, Pregnant women can’t be treated. 

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Aftercare: 

General moisturising and UV block skin maintenance.