What Is Skin Light Therapy ?
This is a form of light therapy for your skin also known as Photorejuvenation, which involves LED (light emitting diodes) devices that you apply directly on your skin. Light is constant or pulsed, and can be of various wavelenghts to produce multiple benefits.
Though large machines using this technology are available at your dermatologists or skin clinic, you can now have a handheld light therapy device for home use. Just like professional device they mainly use red light for anti aging purposes and blue light therapy for acne.
Red light therapy devices are used to stimulate elastin and collagen production. These are the proteins responsible for our skin firmness and elasticity. As we age our body produce less of these proteins, also, the capillaries that carry the blood to the skin are smaller. Red light enhance the blood flow to your skin, by dilatating these little veins, which allows more nutrients to travel into your skin.
Your skin thus becomes softer, and younger, the aging process slows down.
Though red light can also be used for treating acne (inflammation, healing scars), this is blue light that is mainly employed for this skin issue.
Blue light therapy is done exactly like red light. Blue light will kill the acne bacteria (Propionibacterium acnes) that causes acne, in fact the bacteria reacts to this light by producing free radicals that will then kill the bacteria. It will also reduce sebum and oil production that are responsible of breakouts and shiny skin.
Note that acne light therapy is more effective for people with mild to moderate acne.
Feel free to browse Skin Light Therapy website to learn more about the devices we recommend. You will find description and customer reviews. Our top recommendations are the Baby Quasar light therapy devices (both red and blue).