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Case study · Skin Treatments
Clearing congestion with a course of facials
Three medical facials with extractions and dermaplaning, after stripping an eleven-product routine back to four. The routine was the cause.
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How the course ran
She had been buying a new product every few weeks for two years and had eleven of them in the bathroom. Her skin was congested, flaking around the nose and dull, and the routine was the cause rather than the cure.
The first appointment was mostly a conversation. We took her down to a gentle cleanser, one active, a moisturiser and an SPF, and asked her to change nothing else for six weeks. Then three medical facials four weeks apart with manual extractions, and dermaplaning at the second and third to lift the coating of fine downy hair that was holding product on the surface.
The photograph is at ten weeks. The blackheads on the nose and chin are largely cleared, the flaking has resolved and the surface takes light more evenly. There are still a couple of small active spots, and there are still pores, because that is what skin looks like.
Individual results vary. Extraction results in particular depend on maintenance: congestion returns within six to eight weeks without a routine the skin can actually tolerate.
Individual results vary
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A case study describes one person’s course of treatment. It is not a prediction. Outcomes depend on anatomy, skin type, age, medical history and how closely aftercare is followed, and no treatment we offer is permanent or guaranteed. What a consultation can tell you is whether a treatment is likely to help you — which is where every plan here started.