Aesthetic/ Cosmetic Treatments 

Healthy skin depicts a healthy life! Maintaining healthy skin is crucial for your overall appearance. But this may not be the case for everyone, especially while you age. Thankfully, science has solutions to all your flaws and imperfections through cosmetic treatments. Aesthetic/Cosmetic treatments for skin rejuvenation have gained immense popularity in recent years. They address a variety of skin-related concerns, such as wrinkles, fine lines, hyperpigmentation, and acne scars, to name a few. Currently, nonsurgical aesthetic or cosmetic treatments are preferred over traditional surgical procedures since they provide the same results with better recovery and minimal complications. 

Read on to learn about aesthetic/cosmetic treatments and their potential benefits.

What Are Aesthetic Treatments?

The skin is the largest organ of your body that requires care and nurturing. Maintaining healthy skin can help you reap excellent benefits in the long run. But what do you do when your skin is damaged? This is when aesthetic/cosmetic treatments come to your rescue! Aesthetic treatments, also known as cosmetic treatments, are noninvasive, painless procedures to enhance your beauty and appearance. These are designed to combat aging, rejuvenate, and revitalize your skin. 

 Some of the common uses of aesthetic treatments include:

• Fighting signs of aging like wrinkles, fine lines, sagging skin, and acne scars
• Reducing sun damage and hyperpigmentation
• Treating uneven skin tone
• Combating skin conditions like spider veins, etc.
• Removing unwanted hair
• Treating cellulite (collection of fat under your skin that pushes against the connective tissue)

What Are the Most Popular Aesthetic Treatments?

Based on your individual skin needs, skin experts or dermatologists (doctors who specialize in diagnosing and treating conditions related to the skin, hair, and nails) offer several types of aesthetic treatments. 

Some of the most popular aesthetic treatments include:

Botox

• This is a minimally invasive injectable cosmetic treatment that involves a prescription medicine known as botulinum toxin. Botox injections significantly reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines. 
• Botox is an excellent neurotoxin that blocks the brain signals to the affected muscle. The connection between the brain and the target muscle is inhibited; signals to contract or expand do not reach the nervous system. This temporarily paralyzes the targeted muscles. As the muscles relax, the skin texture improves and appears smooth. 

Chemical Peels

• Chemical peeling is also known as "chemexfoliation" or "derma peeling." It is a nonsurgical, noninvasive cosmetic procedure, which uses a chemical solution to remove the damaged, superficial (top) layer of your skin. This layer eventually peels off, revealing fresher, glowing skin. Chemical peels are used for skin imperfections like sunspots, wrinkles, fine lines, age spots, pigmentation, scarring, and uneven skin tone.

Laser Skin Resurfacing

• This procedure uses a laser beam to target the area. The light energy is converted into heat energy to cause controlled damage to the epidermis (outer skin layer), wherein your body reacts to heal the tissue by creating new skin through collagen production.
• Laser skin resurfacing helps treat wrinkles, fine lines, and sagging skin.

Hydrafacials 

• Hydrafacial is a type of microdermabrasion.
• This noninvasive treatment uses advanced technology to reduce skin breakouts and smooth acne scars without harsh chemicals or lasers. 
• A special, hand-held device is used in a swirling motion to provide hydration to remove the debris, dirt, and dead impurities from the skin. It provides a clear, smooth, glowing skin.

Mesotherapy

• This is a minimally invasive procedure that involves inserting a series of injections with small needles into the middle layer of the skin.
• This procedure finds its application to treat acne scars, hyperpigmentation, stretch marks, cellulite, and hair loss.

Microneedling 

• This is a minimally invasive procedure that uses small needles to puncture the epidermis of the skin. This accelerates collagen production through your body's natural healing process.
• Microneedling helps treat wrinkles, fine lines, and sagging skin.

PRP Therapy

• Popularly known as vampire facial or Dracula therapy, it helps treat skin conditions like wrinkles, fine lines, and sagging skin.
• PRP consists of two elements: plasma (liquid portion of the blood) and platelets (a type of blood cell). It contains growth factors that trigger cell reproduction and stimulate tissue regeneration or healing in the targeted areas.
• Since it promotes healing in the body, PRP therapy also helps treat sports injuries, hair loss, and scar treatments.

Ultherapy

• This noninvasive procedure uses high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) energy to stimulate collagen production in your skin. 
• It helps treat wrinkles, fine lines, blemishes, acne scars, and sagging skin.

Cool Sculpting

• Also known as 'Cryolipolysis,' it is a noninvasive cosmetic body contouring procedure.
• It is a fat-freezing method that aims to get rid of stubborn fat in certain parts of your body. Fat cells are more affected by cold temperatures than other cells. This means the cold temperature does not damage the other cells of the skin and underlying tissues.

Laser Hair Removal 

• This method operates on the photothermolysis principle, where laser light beams are focused on the targeted area for hair removal. The light energy penetrates the skin and targets the hair follicles, converting it into thermal energy (heat). This thermal energy alters the melanin (a substance in your body that produces skin, eye, and hair pigmentation) in the hair, leading to the immediate vaporization of the targeted hair. The hair follicles become dormant and halt the growth of new hair. 

Dermaplaning

• This aesthetic procedure uses a specialized blade to scrape the top layer of your skin, removing dead and damaged skin cells and fine hair.

What Are the Benefits of Aesthetic Treatments?

Aesthetic/cosmetic treatments are gaining traction in this image-conscious world due to the following benefits:

• These procedures are nonsurgical
• Offer natural-looking results
• Result in fewer side effects or complications
• There is minimal to no downtime 
• The recovery is quick
• The procedures boost your confidence and self-esteem
• Enhances your emotional and psychological well-being

Takeaway

Aesthetic treatments are skin rejuvenating procedures that are often noninvasive. There is an increased demand for cosmetic procedures in today's modern era, where everyone wants to look aesthetically pleasing. Cosmetology offers aesthetic treatments like Botox, fillers, dermaplaning, coolsculpting, etc. Consult your doctor before choosing any aesthetic treatment to weigh all the pros and cons according to your needs.