What Kind of Beauty Treatments Will You Usually Find at a Med Spa?
A beauty treatment is any professional skincare service that can help you feel more confident in your appearance by uncovering or enhancing your natural beauty. Beauty treatments qualify as more than just self-care treatments and are anything but vanity; instead, they provide a simple yet effective way to invest in your skin and confidence, and this investment can yield endless and long-lasting rewards.
What Kind of Beauty Treatments Will You Usually Find at MedSpa?
Each MedSpa offers a specific set of services, and while some may vary from one location to another, there are several common treatments that are offered by most because of their effectiveness and results-driven nature. These beauty treatments can improve the overall appearance, promote skin health, reverse the aging process, and correct cosmetic or aging-related imperfections.
Cosmetic Injectables
Cosmetic injectables were first introduced to the beauty world over 20 years ago and have only been growing in popularity ever since for their ability to temporarily reverse the signs of aging, enhance different facial features, and even promote natural collagen and elastin production. The two most common cosmetic injectables are neuromodulators and dermal fillers.
Dermal fillers inject natural-looking volume to combat aging, fill hollow areas, smooth lines, and wrinkles, add volume to the lips, contour the face, and even augment different body areas. Neuromodulators address and correct expression lines that form over time due to repetitive muscle movements. They smooth these lines by relaxing those muscles, which results in smoother skin and a more youthful and well-rested appearance.
Alternative Cosmetic Injectables
There are injectable treatments that promote natural-looking results and stronger, healthier skin by increasing natural collagen and elastin production to address specific cosmetic or aging-related concerns. PRF injections use the platelets and growth factors in the blood to regenerate the skin, reverse the signs of aging, and naturally promote skin health and a vibrant complexion.
Sculptra injections contain an active ingredient called Poly-L-lactic acid that stimulates the body’s natural collagen and elastin production abilities to fill hollow areas, smooth lines, and wrinkles, and enhance different features. These treatments promote long-term results and can meet the needs of patients with all different concerns and aesthetic goals to enhance their natural beauty and improve their confidence.
Facials
Facials are treatments that promote skin health and can help patients maintain a vibrant and glowing complexion. These treatments can be scheduled monthly or bi-monthly to hydrate, exfoliate, and nourish the skin. They can make good skin better, and they can also treat problematic skin conditions and target imperfections to help patients improve their complexions.
Facials on their own can improve the skin, but add-on treatments like chemical peels, masks, and dermaplaning, among others, can enhance the treatment results and target skin concerns with different techniques and methods. Check out this site to learn about the different add-ons that can enhance the results of a customized facial.
Microneedling
Microneedling is another MedSpa treatment that’s been growing in popularity for its ability to naturally perfect the skin without chemicals, invasive techniques, or significant social downtime. During the treatment, a device fitted with tiny, thin needles creates microchannels on the skin’s surface. These perforations are also tiny injuries that the body responds to with a healing reaction that results in increased cellular turnover and a natural increase in collagen and elastin production.
Microneedling promotes skin health by resurfacing the skin and uncovering its natural beauty. It can reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, shrink the pores, tighten the skin, reduce the appearance of acne scars, and even treat hyperpigmentation. Treatment plans are fully customizable, and patients can expect some immediate and long-term results as the body responds to the treatment with a steady increase of natural collagen and elastin.
Laser Treatments
Laser treatments are skin-perfecting treatments offered by most MedSpas that use advanced technology and light-based energy to treat specific skin concerns that even an effective morning and evening skincare routine and healthy lifestyle cannot. Certain skin imperfections require more advanced techniques like a laser treatment, which targets discolored or damaged skin cells to restore a uniform skin tone and texture and promote patient confidence.
Laser treatments can eliminate vascular lesions, resurface the skin, restore a youthful glow, eliminate unwanted facial or body hair, reverse the signs of aging, reverse sun damage, and eliminate hyperpigmentation, including melasma, sun spots, and age spots. Laser treatments are also completely customizable and will target the patient’s specific concerns.
If you want to take that first step and invest in the health of your skin, your appearance, and your confidence but don’t know which treatment is right for you, an initial consultation is the perfect starting point. During this consultation, you can meet with a skincare expert who can evaluate your skin, listen to your concerns, and then design a treatment plan to enhance your natural beauty, perfect your skin, and renew your confidence.
