Before & After Care
Before Your appointment:
DRINK LOTS OF WATER
It is important to be very hydrated before your appointment. As basic as this sounds this will help the ease of insertion and will in fact have you experience less pain the more hydrated the body is.
Eat beforehand
Eating before your appointment making sure blood sugar is not low will help with ease of treatment. This will avoid you feeling light headed or dizzy.
Tell Us About Prior Treatment
Skin can be treated by electrolysis 8 weeks after a laser treatment to the area. Make sure to tell your practitioner when your last laser appointment was.
Keep Skin Clean
Thermolysis uses the hydration in the hair follicle and along with the heat to kill the dermal papilla (the root). Hydration also comes from using moisturizers, making sure to keep your skin clean before and after an appointment.
Exfoliate Your Skin
Exfoliating skin the day before and using hydration creams or masks will help optimize skin for preparation of treatment. Do not use any chemical peels before your appointment as well as any cortisone creams or retinol.
Treatment Ready Hair
Making sure hairs are long enough for treatment is important. It is not like laser where you shave beforehand. The hairs must be long enough to be grabbed by a tweezer. The length of jasmine rice is always a good example but anything longer is perfectly fine.
be prepared
Pain Relief
You can apply a topical numbing cream with lidocaine an hour to a half hour before appointment. Covering it with seran wrap (glad press and seal) and making sure you are applying the numbing cream thick will help to make sure you reach optimum results. If you have any trouble you can refer to your practitioner for more tips.
You can also take Advil an hour or so before the appointment to also help with pain relief.
After Your Appointment
After Care Instructions
Do Not Scratch
Within the first 24 hours of your appointment you will experience redness and swelling. The area may be itchy Do Not Scratch. It is important to keep the area clean by washing with cold water and no perfumed soaps.
Check Ingredients
You can use 100% ALOE GEL onto the skin. If the substance is green it has dyes in it and will not help heal the area, make sure you read the ingredients before putting anything on your skin after treatment.
The First 24 Hours
Any perfumes, makeup or facial scrubs should not be used within the 24 hours of treatment. Exercising in this period of time is not recommended as you can sweat and cause the area to have more bacteria which can affect the skin’s healing.
Do Not Scratch
Do not Scratch, this can cause the skin to break and bacteria to infect the skin. If you have any scabbing this can be normal. If you are concerned, speak with your practitioner. Your practitioner is there to help you, feel free to voice any concerns.
Apply a Cold Press
You can apply ice to the area but remember do not apply it directly to the skin because you can cause further damage to the skin. Applying a cold compress to the area will help the “hot” feeling you may be experiencing.
Use Polysporin
You can use Polysporin. It is a topical antibiotic some different types also help with pain relief and they will speed up the healing process
Tea Tree Oil + Witch’s Hazel
After 24 hours you can use Tea tree oil, it is an antibacterial, antifungal, and antioxidant that can help to reduce inflammation and promote healing. You can use Witch Hazel as well; it also helps to reduce inflammation and fight bacteria.
Do Not Pick at Your Skin
Do not pick at your skin, if you notice anything that may look like black heads, they could be tombstones. Tombstones are small hairs from a hair follicle that was treated in the anagen stage of hair growth. They remain in the skin because the practitioner treated the hair follicle in the telogen stage of hair growth unaware that a new anagen hair was forming underneath.
We Are Here For You
If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask your practitioner, remember this is your treatment and being able to voice concerns will only benefit your happiness and comfortability with your hair removal journey. Best of luck!