Why do I need Acne Treatments?
If you live close enough to come to the studio, you should come in for an Acne Treatment every two weeks. It typically takes about six treatments over a three-month period of time to get you mostly to completely clear; significant results will be seen within six weeks. The reasons for treatments are six-fold:
1. To allow us to monitor your progress and make changes to your home-care as needed.
2. To exfoliate the skin so that home-care products can penetrate the pore more easily.
3. To lighten dark spots (if you have them) caused by acne lesions.
4. To hydrate the skin so that the skin is receptive to your home-care regimen.
5. To extract existing acne impactions.
6. To kill acne bacteria inside the pore.
Each Acne Treatment has a specific focus for what the skin needs at the time of treatment. Sometimes the skin will need more hydration, other times it will need more anti-bacterial action or exfoliation.
At Art of Skin Care we will assess your skin at the beginning of every treatment to ascertain what treatment will be best for your skin at the time of treatment.
It's very important for us to see or speak to you every two weeks to assess your home-care regimen. We almost always change how you use your home-care every two weeks to make sure we stay ahead of you ability to adapt to skin care products.
We also want to check and make sure that your home-care is not too strong and irritating. We want to achieve that balance between helping you get rid of acne as fast as possible without irritating and dehydrating your skin. We are partners in this process; we can't do it without your full participation.
Your initial consultation is $25 - In this session, we will inform you about your specific type of acne, and how long it will take to get clear skin and what skin care products you will need. We also teach you about aggravating factors that can make your acne worse: foods, medications, cosmetics, stress, and common ingredients in skin care formulations that might be clogging your pores (even professional and prescription products!)
Then we schedule regular acne treatment or scheduled appointments to check in (in the case of long-distance clients) to monitor your progress and change your home-care when needed. For acne sufferers, a one-size-fits-all solution or regimen is not enough; an ongoing relationship with an expert who knows your skin and how to monitor your home-care is the best way to get clear skin in the fastest possible way and to live without pimples, blemishes and the worries of acne.
Each Acne Treatment is $75 - It typically takes about six treatments over a three-month period of time to get you mostly to completely clear; significant results will be seen within six weeks. After your acne is under control, you have to maintain your home-care regimen to keep your acne managed. Many of our current clients come in for a tune up acne treatment every few months just to keep their skin as healthy as possible.